Fershampenuaz
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Fershampenuaz is a village (selo) and the administrative center of Nagaybaksky District
Nagaybaksky District
Nagaybaksky District is a district of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. Its administrative centre is the rural locality of Fershampenuaz. District's population:...

 of Chelyabinsk Oblast
Chelyabinsk Oblast
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, Russia
Russia
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, located on the left bank of the Gumbeyka River (a tributary
Tributary
A tributary or affluent is a stream or river that flows into a main stem river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean...

 of the Ufa
Ufa River
Ufa River is a river in the Urals, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Sverdlovsk Oblast, and the Republic of Bashkortostan; a tributary of the Belaya River. It is 918 km in length. The area of the basin is 53,100 km². It freezes up between late October and early December and stays under the ice until...

). Population: Postal code: 457650.

History

The village was founded in 1842 by Nağaybäk
Nagaybäk
Nağaybäk are an ethnoconfessional group in Russia. They are Christian descendents of Volga Tatars , and former cossacks of the Orenburg Host. The majority of the Nağaybäks live in Nagaybaksky and Chebarkulsky Districts of Chelyabinsk Oblast. They speak a sub-dialect of Tatar language's Middle dialect...

s from Belebeyevsky Uyezd, the Cossacks of the Orenburg Host
Orenburg Cossacks
The Orenburg Cossack Host , a part of the Cossack population in pre-revolutionary Russia, located in the Orenburg province ....

. Like several other Ural villages, among them Parizh and Berlin, it was named to honor the feats of Cossacks in the war against Napoleon—in this case, a victorious battle of Fère-Champenoise that took place on March 25, 1814.

Notable persons

  • Leonid Smetannikov (b 1943), Soviet opera singer bearing the title of People's Artist of the USSR
    People's Artist of the USSR
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