Kozmodemyansk (Russian: Козьмодемья́нск) is a town in the Mari El Republic, Russia. It is located at around 56°20′12″N, 46°34′16″E. Vetluga River flows through the city. 2002 population—22,771. The Mari El Republic (Russian: Респу́блика Мари́й Эл; Mari: Марий Эл Республика) is a federal subject of the Russian Federation (a republic). ... Vetluga (Russian: ÐеÑлÑÌга) is a river in the Mari El Republic and Nizhny Novgorod Oblast of Russia. ... 2002 (MMII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Kozmodemyansk, an administrative centre of Gorno-Mari region in the Mari El republic is situated on the right high bank of the Volga river.
According to the legend the foundation of Kozmodemyansk is connected with Tsar Ivan the Terrible.
In the region and the town there is a special secondary school of electronic devices, vocational schools, sec-ondary and elementary schools, libraries, the Palace of Culture named after J. Eshpai for 600 places, a cinema and rural houses of culture and clubs.
There is a certain visit card of Kozmodemyansk and the proud of its cisitzens - this is an artistic and historic museum named after Grigoriev A.V. Alexander Vladimirovich Grigoriev had gone all the dramatic way of his generation.
He was born on the 28th of May, 1891 in the village of Pertnury and died in Aug, 25 1961 in the town of Tarusya, Kaluga region.