Place:Dimitrovgrad, Simbirsk, Russia

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NameDimitrovgrad
Alt namesMelekesssource: Times Atlas of the World (1994) p 125
TypeInhabited place
Coordinates54.233°N 49.617°E
Located inSimbirsk, Russia
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Dimitrovgrad, formerly Melekess until 1972, is a city in Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia. It is the administrative center of Melekessky District, although it is not within the district and is an independent city. The city is located in the Volga Region, at the confluence of the Melekesska River and the Bolshoy Cheremshan River, a tributary of the Volga River. Dimitrovgrad has a population of the second-largest city in Ulyanovsk Oblast, after Ulyanovsk.

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The city was founded in 1714 as a village for workers of the local distillery. By 1897 its population had grown to 8,500, and in 1919 it was granted town status. Until 1972, the city's name was Melekess, after the local Melekesska River which runs through the town. On July 15, 1972, Melekess was renamed to Dimitrovgrad, celebrating the posthumous 90th birthday of Georgi Dimitrov, the first leader of the communist People's Republic of Bulgaria.

Dimitrovgrad is an inhabited place.

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