Simbirsk, Russian Empire

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Simbirsk, Russian Empire was a provincial city on the Volga River best known as the birthplace of revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin.

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Label Occurrences
Simbirsk, Russian Empire canonical 2

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf administrative center
city
administrativeDivisionType uyezd center
coordinateLocation 54.3167°N 48.3667°E
country Russian Empire
economicActivity distilling
grain trade
leather industry
river shipping
foundedBy Aleksey Trubetskoy
Bogdan Khitrovo
Ivan Khovansky
Ivan Repnin
Prince Ivan Fyodorovich Baryatinsky
Prince Ivan Nikitich Odoevsky
Prince Semyon Prozorovsky
Prince Yuri Baryatinsky
Prince Yuri Dolgorukov
Prince Yuri Trubetskoy
Pyotr Ivanovich Miloslavsky
Semyon Zmeev
Vasily Sheremetev
Semyon Zmeev
surface form: Yakov Cherkassky
grantedTownStatus 1780
hadNotableResident Alexander Kerensky
Nikolai Karamzin
Vladimir Lenin
hadPopulation approximately 26,000 in 1856
approximately 43,000 in 1897
inception 1648
knownFor birthplace of Vladimir Lenin
provincial administrative center on the Volga River
languageOfName Russian
laterRenamed Ulyanovsk
locatedIn Simbirsk Governorate
locatedInHistoricalRegion middle Volga
surface form: Middle Volga
locatedInTimeZone UTC+3
locatedOnRiver Volga River
namedAfter Simbirsk fortress
nativeName Ulyanovsk
surface form: Симбирск
partOf European Russia
Volga region
religion Russian Orthodoxy (majority)
renamedAfter Vladimir Lenin
surface form: Vladimir Lenin (Ulyanov)
significantEvent Pugachev Rebellion
surface form: Pugachev's Rebellion

Russian Civil War
transport Volga River shipping routes
wasCapitalOf Simbirsk Governorate

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Subject: Simbirsk, Russian Empire
Description of subject: Simbirsk, Russian Empire was a provincial city on the Volga River best known as the birthplace of revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin.

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Vladimir Lenin birthPlace Simbirsk, Russian Empire
Lenin’s death mask hasSubjectBirthPlace Simbirsk, Russian Empire