Kachira

Kachira (in Russian: Каши́ра), is a city of the Oblast of Moscow, in Russia. Located on the Oka at 115 km at the south of Moscow, it counted 40.100 inhabitants in 2005.

Although Kachira is mentioned for the first time in 1356 under the name of Kochira (of the name of the rivère éponyme, today the Kachirka), the year 1619 east regards as its true year of foundation, because the city was then moved of 5 km, while passing from left bank in Right Bank of Oka. Indeed, it had been seriously damaged by the attacks of the Tatars of the Crimea in 1592 and 1596.

The Khan of Kazan Ghabdellatif (1475-1502) there was exiled. The weapons of Kachira take again those of Kazan partly.

The city accepted a municipal statute in 1777.

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