Balakhna (Балахна in Russian) is a town in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast in Russia. It is located on the right bank of the Volga River 32 km north of Nizhny Novgorod. Population: 57,338 (2002); 33,500 (1968). A street in Ynysybwl, Wales, relatively stereotypical of a small town A town is usually an urban area which is not considered to rank as a city. ... Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (Нижегоро́дская о́бласть) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). ... Volga in Yaroslavl (autumn morning) Length 3,690 km Elevation of the source 225 m Average discharge 8,000 m³/s Area watershed 1. ... KM, Km, or km may stand for: Khmer language (ISO 639 alpha-2, km) Kilometre Kinemantra Meditation Knowledge management KM programming language Comoros (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code) the Michaelis-Menten constant Km, see Michaelis-Menten kinetics Kamenz (district), Germany (license plate indication) Messenia, Greece (license plate indication... Nizhny Novgorod (Russian: Ни́жний Но́вгород), colloquially shortened as Nizhny and also transliterated into English as Nizhniy Novgorod or Nizhni Novgorod, is the fourth largest city of the Russian Federation, ranking after Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Novosibirsk. ... 2002(MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Balakhna was founded in 1474 as Sol'-na-Gorodtse. After the Khan of Kazan razed it to the ground in 1536, a wooden fort was constructed to protect the settlement against further Tatar incursions. Until the 18th century Balakhna prospered as a center of saltworks and bread trade. Events December 12 - Upon the death of Henry IV of Castile a civil war ensues between his designated successor Isabella I of Castile and her sister Juana who was supported by her husband, Alfonso V of Portugal. ... Gorodets (Городец in Russian) is a town in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast in Russia. ... Map of Kazan Khanate, early 1500s The Kazan Khanate (Tatar: Qazan xanlığı) (1438-1552) was a Tatar state on the territory of former Volga Bulgaria with its capital in Kazan. ... // Events February 2 - Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina. ... (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ... PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN PAN...

After the Time of Troubles, it was the 12th largest city in Russia. In 1636, several shipwrights from Holstein built the first Russian ships here. Until the 19th century, Balakhna was a foremost centre of national river shipbuilding. The people of Balakhna were also reputed for their skills in knitting and making coloured tiles, which were used for decoration of the Saviour Church (1668) and other local churches. The Time of Troubles (Russian: Смутное время, Smutnoye Vremya) was a period of Russian history comprising the end of 16th and beginning of 17th century. ... Events February 24 - King Christian of Denmark gives an order that all beggars that are able to work must be sent to Brinholmen Island to build ships or as galley rowers March 26 - Utrecht University founded in The Netherlands. ... For other uses of the word, see Holstein Holstein (Hol-shtayn) (Low Saxon: Holsteen, Danish: Holsten, Latin and historical English: Holsatia) is the southern part of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany, between the rivers Elbe, Eider, and the Schlei firth. ...

The oldest temple in the city (and in the whole region) is the tentlike church of St Nicholas (1552). Of all the tentlike churches built in brick, this is the nearest approach to their wooden prototypes. Another handsome church, dating from the 17th century, houses a municipal museum. The Nativity church (1675) represents an archaic monumental type of monastery cathedral. Nearby is a statue of Kuzma Minin, who was born in Balakhna. Hipped roof is a special type of a roof, widely used in Russian architecture for churches and belltowers. ... Monument to Kuzma Minin in Nizhny Novgorod Kuzma Minich Minin (Russian: Минин Кузьма Минич) (?-1616), Russian patriot who together with Prince Dmitry Pozharsky rallied an army to defend Russia against Polish invasion. ...

See also

• Adam Olearius

Adam Olearius (actually Adam Oehlschlaeger) (1603-1671), German scholar, mathematician, geographer and librarian. ...

External link

History and monuments of Balakhna (in Russian)