Millerowo

city Millerovo Миллерово coat of arms Federal district Southern Russia Oblast Rostov Rajon Millerowo Founded 1786 City since 1926 surface 51  km² population 36,499 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 716 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 130  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 86315 Post Code 34613x License Plate 61, 161 OKATO 60 232 501 Geographical location Coordinates 48 ° 56 '  N , 40 ° 24'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 56 '0 "  N , 40 ° 24' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Rostov Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Millerowo ( Russian Миллерово ) is a city in Rostov Oblast ( Russia ) with 36,499 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located about 220 km north of the oblast capital Rostov-on-Don on the upper reaches of the Glubokaya , a left tributary of the Seversky Donets .

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

The city lies on the railway line Moscow - Voronezh - Rostov-on-Don (route km 966), from which a line branches off in the direction of Luhansk and Donets Basin ( Ukraine ). The M4 Moscow – Rostov-on-Don – Novorossiysk highway runs through Millerowo .

history

Millerowo was created in 1786 when Tsarina Catherine the Great, in an ukase, allowed the German-born Cossack officer Ivan Abramowitsch Miller (Müller) to build an estate on previously unused land. The manor and settlement were called Millerowo.

Towards the end of the 19th century, with the construction of the Rostov-Voronezh- Koslower railway and a branch line towards the Donets Basin, the place developed into an important railway junction.

In 1926 city rights were granted.

During the Second World War , Millerowo was occupied by the German Wehrmacht on July 16, 1942 and recaptured on January 17, 1943 by troops of the Southwest Front of the Red Army while advancing on Voroshilovgrad .

Population development

year	Residents
1939	24,048
1959	30.005
1970	34,627
1979	36,195
1989	37,346
2002	38,498
2010	36,499

Note: census data

economy

In Millerowo there is a plant for agricultural machines and other machine factories, as well as companies in the textile and food industries. To the northwest of the city is an airfield of the Russian Air Force.

sons and daughters of the town

• Denis Gluschakow (* 1987), Russian football player
• Edwald Sawadski (1927–2005), Russian solid-state physicist

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

• Private website about the city (Russian)
• Millerowo on mojgorod.ru (Russian)