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Naberezhnye Chelny Today
The social and economic characteristics
There are more then 2000 industry enterprises are
operatong
in Naberezhnye Chelny. The largest are Joint Stock Company
Tatelektromash, paper manufacturing plant, Lower-Kama Hydro Electro
Station with the power of 1248 MW, Naberezhnye Chelny Heat and Power
Plants, Kamgesenergostroy and various construction industries.
Naberezhnye Chelny is the largest railroad, motor transport and aviation
junction. It is also well known for its port on the river Kama.
The trains from Naberezhnye Chelny have a direct communication with Moscow, Ufa, Kazan, Ulyanovsk, Izhevsk, Bugulma and Adler. A river port is capable to dock “river-sea” type cargo and passenger vessels. It is also well equipped for processing and storage of containers and cargos. The main branches of municipal services are – trucks production, electric-energetic industry, construction and processing industry.
The most important enterprise of the city is a Joint Stock
Company of
Kamaz which specializes
in production of trucks Kamaz and cars Oka, diesel engines, petroleum products
cisterns, buses and spare parts for cars. The energy 
branch is presented by
Naberezhnye Chelny Heat and Power Plant and a Lowe-Kama Hydro Electric Power
Station and also enterprises which service thermal, electrical and engineering
communications. Lower-Kama GES is the most important producer of electric power
in the Volga region.
Naberezhnye Chelny KBK is the only producer of paper and corrugated containers
in Tatarstan. Broad spectrum of products from raw materials is produced there.
Naberezhnye Chelny is also one of the largest centers of food processing
industry. The industrial zone unites such companies as a Meat packing plant,
Milk processing factory “Sot”, Bread bakery “Chelny Hleb”, fish and seafood
packing plant “Holod”. Products of a poultry processing facility “Tukaevskaya”,
mushrooms grown in the State farm “Vesenny” and meats and sausages produced in
“Hladokombinat” are distributed in many other republics and cities of Russia.
In 1982 city Naberezhnye Chelny got a new name Brezhnev. In 1988 it finally got back its original name of Naberezhnye Chelny. The population of the city in 2004 was 514 200 people. Representatives of more then 80 nationalities live in Naberezhnye Chelny. There are 17 cultural communities are organized there. Their activity is aimed to revive and develop native languages, culture, traditions and customs.