Isobilny

city Isobilny Изобильный flag coat of arms Federal district North Caucasus region Stavropol Rajon Isobilny mayor Pyotr Yakovlev Founded 1895 City since 1965 surface 20  km² population 40,555 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 2028 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 200  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 86545 Post Code 356140-356146 License Plate 26, 126 OKATO 07 220 501 Geographical location Coordinates 45 ° 22 '  N , 41 ° 42'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 22 '0 "  N , 41 ° 42' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in the Stavropol Territory

List of cities in Russia

Isobilny ( Russian Изобильный ) is a city in the Stavropol region ( Russia ) with 40,555 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located in the northern foothills of the Caucasus on the northern edge of the Stavropol Heights about 65 km northwest of the regional capital Stavropol , a few kilometers east of the Yegorlyk , a left tributary of the Manych .

Isobilny is the administrative center of the Rajons of the same name .

The city lies on the railway line Kropotkin ( Kawkasskaya station ) - Stavropol - Elista, opened on this section in 1897 . The city's station is called Isobilnaya .

history

The village of Tishchenkoe was founded near the present city in 1872 . When the railway line to Stavropol was built around 1895, a station settlement and an extension of the village called Isobilowo-Tishchensky were built here .

These grew together and were given the name Isobilnoye in 1935 .

During the Second World War , the place was occupied by the German Wehrmacht on August 3, 1942 and recaptured on January 22, 1943 by troops from the Transcaucasus Front of the Red Army .

In 1965 the town charter was granted under its current name.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	6,659
1959	11,130
1970	23.210
1979	29,171
1989	32,905
2002	38,926
2010	40,555

Note: census data

Culture and sights

Isobilny has a history and local museum.

In the village of Moskovskoye , the remains of a fortress of the Azov - Mozdok defense line from 1780 on the then southern border of the Russian Empire and a church from the 19th century are preserved; in Stanitsa Roshdestvenskaya there is also a 19th century church.

economy

In Isobilny there are companies in the food and electrical engineering industries as well as in the building materials industry. The city is the center of an agricultural area.

The Stavropol Thermal Power Plant (Stavropolskaya GRES) is located near the Solnechnodolsk settlement .

The Blauer Strom natural gas pipeline began near Isobilny in 2003 and runs 1213 kilometers through the Black Sea to Samsun and on to Ankara in Turkey .

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)

Web links

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

• Isobilny on mojgorod.ru (Russian)