Kinel
Kinel is a city in Samara Oblast, Russia, located on the Bolshoy Kinel River near its confluence with the Samara River, east of Samara. Population:
History
It was founded in 1837. In 1877, during the construction of the Samara–Orenburg railroad, the railway station of Kinel was built nearby. The station became a junction by 1888. In 1944, Kinel was granted city status.
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Kinel serves as the administrative center of Kinelsky District, even though it is not a part of it. As an administrative division, it is, together with two urban-type settlements, incorporated separately as the city of federal subject significance of Kinel—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, the town of oblast significance of Kinel is incorporated as Kinel Urban Okrug.