Kstowo
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Kstovo
Кстово
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List of cities in Russia |
Kstowo ( Russian Кстово ) is a Russian city with 66,657 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) and the administrative center of the raion of the same name (district) in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast .
geography
The place is located on the right bank of the Volga , 29 kilometers southeast of the regional capital Nizhny Novgorod . The latter is also the closest city; other neighboring cities are Bor (23 km north of Kstowo on the opposite bank of the Volga) and Bogorodsk (42 km west).
history
Kstowo was first mentioned in writing in the 14th century. Originally the village was called Kstoskaja ( Кстоская ), whereby the origin of the name from the Mordovian language , which was widespread in this area at that time, is assumed.
From the 15th century onwards, the village was owned by the Nizhny Novgorod Pechersky Assumption Monastery, until the Russian Orthodox monasteries of the Russian Empire were largely expropriated by the state in 1763 . After that and until the abolition of serfdom in 1861, the village belonged to the industrial family Pashkov.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, the population of Kstovo was mainly occupied with towing Volga ships, otherwise with agriculture and logging. Even at the beginning of the 20th century, the village had well under 1000 inhabitants.
In 1929 Kstowo became a district center as part of a regional reform. Since forestry was being built up there at that time, the population of Kstowos was already around 2000 in 1939.
When the Nowogorkowski oil refinery was built in the 1950s, a completely new town emerged from 1951 away from the old village of Kstowo. Most of the old part has remained intact to this day. In 1957 Kstowo was given city rights.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1939 | 2,034 |
1959 | 27,023 |
1970 | 48,336 |
1979 | 58,774 |
1989 | 64.214 |
2002 | 66,944 |
2010 | 66,657 |
Note: census data
Economy and Infrastructure
The Nowogorkowski Oil Refinery is Kstowo's main plant to this day and is currently part of the Lukoil mineral oil company . Other industrial companies located in Kstowo include: a. a thermal power station, a building materials factory and companies in the food and wood industries.
The city is on the M7 trunk road and has a rail link.
Education and sport
Probably the most famous sports facility in Kstowo is the Sambo Academy and a large sports complex. This makes Kstowo the center of this martial art. The so-called petroleum technical center, which specializes in petrochemicals , is also located in the city . There is also a Kstov branch of the Nizhny Novgorod Military Engineering University.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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
- City portal kstovo-nn.ru (Russian)
- Kstowo on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
- Timelapse video with all Kstovo sights