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6 unusual facts about Kirov Oblast


Kama River

It starts in the Udmurt Republic, near Kuliga, flowing northwest on 125 miles, turn northeast near Loyno for another 125 miles, then turns south and west in Perm Krai, flowing again through the Udmurt Republic and then through the Republic of Tatarstan, where it meets the Volga.

Kirov Oblast

On the territory of Kumyonsky District is famous resort town of federal significance Nizhneivkino, which on treatment and rest come to residents of the Kirov region and many regions of Russia.

Kirov wolf attacks

Two hundred wolf packs had been counted in the area's forests, and sightings of wolves in the city of Kirov's streets (namely Khlinovskaya, Vodoprovodnaya, and Gorbacheva streets) became common.

Medvedevsky

Medvedevskaya, Lalsk, Kirov Oblast, a rural locality (a village) under the administrative jurisdiction of the urban-type settlement of Lalsk, Kirov Oblast, Russia

Sojuzpatent

Sojuzpatent has offices in Moscow, Astrakhan, Vologda, Kirov, Kostroma, and Novosibirsk; it is the headquarters of the national group of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) since its foundation in 1965.

Yuri Sergeevich Lavrov

During the Second World War Yuri Lavrov and his family was evacuated with the theatre to Kirov, then to Novosibirsk in Siberia.


Jamo bey Hajinski

Even though he was released in 1928 and returned to Baku, Hajinski was arrested anew in 1938 and sent to Vyatka prison camp in Kirov Oblast of Russia where he died in 1942.

Nikita Belykh

He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Perm Krai (until December 11, 2008), and now is confirmed as governor of Kirov Oblast.

Scalopodon

The type species Scalopodon tenuisfrons was named in 1999 from the Kotelnichsky District of Kirov Oblast.


see also

Gecatogomphius

Gecatogomphius is known from the holotype PIN 1156/1, a three-dimensionally preserved nearly complete lower jaw found on the bank of the Vyatka River near the town of Gorki in the Kirov Oblast, and from PIN 4310/1 a single maxillary tooth plate from Berezovye Polyanki in Tatarstan.