Dimitrovgrad (Russia)

city Dimitrovgrad Димитровград flag coat of arms Federal district Volga Oblast Ulyanovsk Urban district Dimitrovgrad mayor Nikolai Gorschenin Founded 1698 Earlier names Melekess City since 1919 surface 42  km² population 122,580 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 2919 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 60  m Time zone UTC + 4 Telephone code (+7) 84235 Post Code 433500-433515 License Plate 73, 173 OKATO 73 405 Website www.dimitrovgrad.ru Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 13 '  N , 49 ° 36'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 13 '0 "  N , 49 ° 36' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Ulyanovsk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Dimitrovgrad ( Russian Димитровгра́д ) is a city with 122,580 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in the Ulyanovsk Oblast in Russia .

It is located north of the mouth of the Great Cheremshan River (Bolshoi Cheremshan) in the largest tributary of the Kuibyshev reservoir of the Volga , around 80 km east of the regional capital Ulyanovsk and 119 km north of the metropolis of Samara . The nearest town is Sengilei on the right bank of the Kuibyshev reservoir, about 60 straight-line kilometers southwest of Dimitrovgrad.

history

Dimitrovgrad was founded in 1698, when the first Chuvash settlements arose in the area of ​​today's city . This settlement was called Melekess (Russian Мелеке́сс ) after the river of the same name, whose name in turn has its origin in the Turkic languages . In the 1730s, a state-owned spirits factory was built near the village, around which a little later a settlement of workers and traders formed. Although the factory closed in 1847, was the village as an embossed from trading settlement continued and became in 1877 an Posad explained, so a city-like craft and trade settlement. In 1919 Melekess was declared a city and a district center.

On 15 July 1972, the city lost its original name and was named after the Bulgarian communist Georgi Dimitrov , the occasion of his 90th birthday, in Dimitrovgrad renamed.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	32,485
1959	50,696
1970	81,350
1979	105,958
1989	123,570
2002	130,871
2010	122,580

Note: census data

Economy and Transport

The main operation of the city is the Research Institute for Nuclear Reactors, located six kilometers southwest of Dimitrovgrad . One of the eight reactors supplies the city with district heating. This reactor is the only one of its kind. In addition, mechanical engineering and the textile industry are important in Dimitrovgrad.

There is a road connection from Dimitrovgrad to the metropolises Ulyanovsk and Samara and from there to the Russian trunk road network. The city has a train station.

Further educational institutions

• Branch of the Ulyanovsk State Technical University

Town twinning

• Dimitrovgrad , Bulgaria
• Drohobych , Ukraine
• Lida , Belarus
• Alexin , Russia
• Obninsk , Russia
• Qayraqqum , Tajikistan
• Kuznetsk , Russia

sons and daughters of the town

• Yuri Sakharevich (* 1963), weightlifter and Olympic champion
• Sergei Kazakow (* 1976), boxer
• Yuri Batmanov (* 1977), biathlete
• Nadeschda Tschastina (* 1982), biathlete
• Stanislaw Donez (* 1983), swimmer
• Alexei Katrenko (* 1985), summer biathlete
• Olesja Byk (* 1988), rhythmic gymnast

Web links

Commons : Dimitrovgrad  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the city administration (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)