title: Fershampenuaz
text: # Fershampenuaz
  
  53°31′N 59°48′E﻿ / ﻿53.517°N 59.800°E﻿ / 53.517; 59.800
  
  Fershampenuaz (Russian: Фершампенуаз, from French: Fère-Champenoise) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Nagaybaksky District of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Gumbeyka River (a tributary of the Ufa). Population: 4,368 (2010 Census); 4,435 (2002 Census); 4,349 (1989 Census). Postal code: 457650.
  
  ## History
  
  It was founded in 1842 by Nağaybäks from Belebeyevsky Uyezd, the Cossacks of the Orenburg Host. Like several other Ural villages, among them Parizh (Paris) and Berlin, it was named to honor the feats of Cossacks in the war against Napoleon—in this case, the victorious Battle of Fère-Champenoise that took place on March 25, 1814.
  
  ## Notable persons
  
  * Leonid Smetannikov (b 1943), Soviet opera singer bearing the title of People's Artist of the USSR
  