Privolzhsk is a town and the administrative center of Privolzhsky District

Privolzhsky District, Ivanovo Oblast

Privolzhsky District, Ivanovo Oblast is an administrative district , one of the 21 in Ivanovo Oblast, Russia....

 of Ivanovo Oblast

Ivanovo Oblast

Ivanovo Oblast is a federal subject of Russia .Its three largest cities are Ivanovo , Kineshma, and Shuya.The principal center of tourism is Plyos. The Volga River flows through the northern part of the oblast....

, 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 Shacha River

Shacha River

The Shacha River is a small tributary of the Tsna River in Russia. It has presented a hydrologic problem since the Globus-1 test, when it changed its course and threatened to flood the hole left by the explosion. This has the potential for spreading the nuclear pollution to the entire Volga region...

 (right 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 Volga

Volga River

The Volga is the largest river in Europe in terms of length, discharge, and watershed. It flows through central Russia, and is widely viewed as the national river of Russia. Out of the twenty largest cities of Russia, eleven, including the capital Moscow, are situated in the Volga's drainage...

) 51 kilometres (31.7 mi) northeast of Ivanovo

Ivanovo

Ivanovo is a city and the administrative center of Ivanovo Oblast, Russia. Population: Ivanovo has traditionally been called the textile capital of Russia. Since most textile workers are women, it has also been known as the "City of Brides"...

. Population:

It has been known since 1485 as the village of Yakovlevskoye Bolshoye . The town of Privolzhsk was formed by merging the village of Yakovlevskoye and the neighboring settlements in 1938.