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Votkinsk (/ ˈ v ɒ t k ɪ n s k /; Russian: Воткинск), also known as Votka (/ ˈ v ɒ t k ə /; Udmurt: Вотка), is an industrial town in the Udmurt Republic, Russia. Population: 99,022 ( 2010 Census ) ; [ 3 ] 99,441 ( 2002 Census ) ; [ 8 ] 103,509 ( 1989 Soviet census ) .
Votkinsk, city, Udmurtiya, western Russia. It lies along the Votka River just above the latter’s confluence with the Kama. Votkinsk was founded in 1759 and became a city in 1935. It is famous chiefly as the birthplace of the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, whose home is preserved as a museum.
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Votkinsk (Воткинск) is Tchaikovsky's birthplace, and a town and municipal district in the republic of Udmurtia (Удмуртская Республика), in the Ural region of the Russian Federation. During Tchaikovsky's lifetime it was part of the Sarapulsk district (Сарапульский уезд) in the Vyatka province ...
Izhevsk–Votkinsk Uprising (8 August – 12 November 1918) was an anti-Bolshevik uprising in the Prikamye region during the Civil War in Russia. Background [ edit ]
- 8 August-12 November 1918
- Izhevsk and Votkinsk, Russia
Votkinsk (vôt´kĬnsk), city (1989 pop. 103,500), Udmurt Republic, E European Russia, on a tributary of the Kama River. It has machine plants and sawmills. Founded in 1759 as Votkinski Zavod, a metal industry settlement, it was pillaged by Pugachev in 1774.
Tchaikovsky was born on 7 May 1840 in Votkinsk, [9] a small town in Vyatka Governorate during the Russian Empire in present-day Udmurtia near the banks of the Kama River. His father, Ilya Petrovich Tchaikovsky, served as a lieutenant colonel and engineer in the Department of Mines [10] and managed the Ironworks in Kamsko-Votkinsk.
Votkinsk, like its neighbour Izhevsk, was founded in the mid-18th century as the location of an ironworks. It remains an industrial city today, but its main claim to fame now is the fact that Russia’s most famous composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky was born in the city at an estate granted to his father as director of the Votkinsk Ironworks.
