"GRUZOVOZOFF" branch office in Kirov


Address:
8 A Bljukhera Str., 610007, Kirov, Russia


Telephone/Fax:
+ 7 (8332) 37-47-70, 37-47-91, 37-56-70


E-mail:
kirov@gruzovozoff.ru


Open hours:
Monday - Friday: 9:00 - 19:00
Saturday: 10:00 - 16:00
Sunday closed


Head of the branch office:
Dmitriy Bronnikov

The first record of Kirov city in the Russian chronicles dates to 1347. The first settlement on the place of the ancient Russian settlement was founded by the armed detachments of Novgorod, which in the 14th century went for trade-robber and aggressive campaigns to the basin of the Volga River. Sailing on the Viatka River they looked for more fertile soils, forests rich in raw materials and game. The settlement received the name of Viatka. Originally Viatka was an independent Russian settlement, which appertained to the Suzdalsko-Nizhegorodskoe princedom. In 1391 Viatka experienced the first invasion of Tartars under the command of the prince of the Golden Horde Bektut. The town was destroyed and devastated. Since then the Mongolian-Tartar nomands and the troops of Moscow princes began to make regular plundering raids to Viatka. Khlynov was the second name of the town. This name appeared, in the opinion of the specialists, in the 1450s, when in connection with the war against Moscow the strongly fortified Kremlin was built in Viatka, which was called the town Khlynov by the name of the Khlynovitsa River. The town was joined to the Moscow State in 1489. At that time Khlynov was known as a local center of handicraft and trade. The trade routes, which passed through the town and led to Pomorje, Povolzhje, Ural and Siberia, favoured the development of the town. Before the reform of the province by Peter the First Khlynov was chief town of the uyezd, although it was considered the main town of the Viatskiy region. In 1708 the town became a part of the Siberian province, in 1727 Khlynov and its province were passed to the Kazanskaya province. In 1780 Ekaterina the Second issued a decree establishing the Viatskoe region ruled by governor-general and renaming of Khlynov into Viatka city. The Viatskoe region ruled by governor-general was transformed into the province. The town became the center of the Viatskaya province. During the years of socialist industrialization and later, due to the displacement of the evacuated works of heavy industry, the town turned into a big center of the machine-building, metal-working, instrument-making and chemical industry. The main natural resources of the region are forest, phosphorites, furs, peat, water and soil resources. There is the Viatsko-Kamskoe deposit of phosphorites, the biggest in Europe. The reserves of peat in the region, according to the data of the geological prospect, make up 435 million tones. Only a small part of the oil reserves is prospected. Historical dates: In 1478 the citizens of Viatka beat with the help of the citizens of Ustiug the raids on Viatka of the khan Ibragim off. In 1489 Khlynov was annexed to the Moscow State. In 1796 Khlynov, renamed to Viatka, became the center of the Viatskaya province. From 1848 to 1855 the great Russian writer M.E. Saltykov-Shedrin lived in exile in Viatka. In 1934 the Central Executive Committee of the USSR decided to rename the Viatka City in Kirov City in memory of S.M. Kirov (native of this region). In 1989 the town Novoviatsk was annexed to the Kirov city.