Wonderful town of Elabuga
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The city of Elabuga is a small, quiet, calm and very interesting city, is an exciting history of its existence. There are many interesting and historical meths in the city, the Bekhterev Museum, the Tsvetaeva Museum, the Cavalryman-Maiden Durova Museum, the Shishkin Museum, as well as beautiful picturesque natural objects and cultural monuments.
Elabuga (Tat. Alabuga) is a city (since 1780) in Russia, the administrative center of the Elabuga municipal district of Tatarstan, part of the polycentric Lower Kama (Naberezhnye Chelny) agglomeration and the Lower Kama territorial-production complex-node (TPK).
Elabuga is one of the oldest settlements of Tatarstan with a 1000-year history. The millennium of the city was celebrated in 2007. The city with a panorama of churches, with ancient stone mansions is a sample of merchant architecture of the XIX century, which has preserved its unique appearance and landscape. Located among forests on the high right bank of Kama at the confluence of the Toyma River, 200 km east of the capital of the Republic of Kazan. The area is 41.1 km2. The seventh most populous city of Tatarstan with a population of about 72,929 in 2015. A large center of industry dynamically developing due to one of the first in Russia special economic zone of industrial production type "Alabuga".