Киров / Kirov: 1960s

Киров в 1960-х годах
Kirov in the 1960s
Music: "White Nights" by Tatiana Burtseva
Kirov, formally known as Vyatka is a city situated on the Vyatka River in the Kirov Oblast...
The settlement of Khlynov was first mentioned in 1374 and ws incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Moscow in 1489.
In 1780, Catherine the Great renamed the town Vyatka and made it the seat of Vyatka Governorate. The town also served as a place of exile, notably for Alexander Herzen, Alexander Vitberg, and Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin. By the end of the 19th century, it was an important station on the Trans-Siberian railway.
The city was renamed in December 1934, for the Soviet leader Sergey Kirov who had been assassinated on December 1 of that year.....