Mendeleyevsk is a town and the administrative center of Mendeleyevsky District

Mendeleyevsky District

Mendeleyevsky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the forty-three in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. Its administrative center is the town of Mendeleyevsk. District's population: 30,539 ; Population of Mendeleyevsk accounts for 72.7% of the district's population....

 of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

, located on the Toyma River

Toyma River

The Toyma is a river in Udmurtia and Tatarstan, Russian Federation, a right-bank tributary of the Kama River. Its length is 124 km and its drainage basin is 1,446 km². It origins in Udmurtia and falls to the Kama near Yelabuga, Tatarstan.Major tributaries are Vozzhayka, Yurashka, Karinka Rivers....

, 238 kilometres (147.9 mi) east of Kazan

Kazan

Kazan is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. With a population of 1,143,546 , it is the eighth most populous city in Russia. Kazan lies at the confluence of the Volga and Kazanka Rivers in European Russia. In April 2009, the Russian Patent Office granted Kazan the...

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It grew around a chemical plant established in 1868. It was granted town status in 1967. Begishevo, the nearest airport, is located 50 kilometres (31.1 mi) south of Mendeleyevsk.