Mineralnye Vody

city Mineralnye Vody Минеральные Воды coat of arms Federal district North Caucasus region Stavropol Rajon Mineralnye Vody Founded 1878 City since 1920 surface 49  km² population 76,728 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1566 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 300  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 87922 Post Code 357200-357219 License Plate 26, 126 OKATO 07 421 Website www.gorodminvody.ru Geographical location Coordinates 44 ° 13 '  N , 43 ° 8'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 13 '0 "  N , 43 ° 8' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in the Stavropol Territory

List of cities in Russia

Mineralnyje Vody or Minwod for short ( Russian Минеральные Воды , unofficial short form Minwody Минводы ) is a medium-sized town with 76,728 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in the North Caucasian region of Stavropol in Russia .

geography

The city is located on the Kuma in the northern suburbs of the Caucasus . It owes its name (in German: mineral water) to the location near an area that is particularly well-known for its mineral water springs , which includes the spa towns of Pyatigorsk and Kislovodsk .

Mineralnye Vody is located 170 kilometers southeast of the regional capital Stavropol and 12 km northeast of the nearest city, Zheleznovodsk . It is surrounded by a steppe landscape that merges further south into a low mountain range (which also includes the 994 meter high local mountain Smeika ).

Panoramic picture of Mineralnye Vody

Similar to the other cities in the south of the Stavropol region, Mineralnyje Vody has a warm continental climate by Russian standards , which is characterized by a dry and hot summer, but a relatively mild winter. Due to the great distance to the Black Sea , the temperature differences between the seasons are more pronounced than, for example, in the region around Sochi : the warmest months are July and August with an average temperature of 21 and 23 ° C, respectively, the coldest are January and February with −3 or −5 ° C.

history

Mineralnye Vody arose in the 1870s with the construction of a railway line from Rostov-on-Don to Vladikavkaz , which was completed in 1875. At the site of today's city, a train station was built, which was called Mineralnye Vody , as it was mainly used to connect the nearby mineral water resorts of Pyatigorsk , Yessentuki , Kislovodsk and Zheleznovodsk , also known collectively as Kawminwody ("Caucasian mineral waters") the rail network was intended. This also explains why the city bears the name "Mineralwässer", although there are actually no mineral water springs here.

A small settlement called Sultanovsky ( Султановский ) was first built around the station . Originally rather insignificant and only counting 500 inhabitants, the place grew to a greater extent from the beginning of the 20th century after a glass factory was built in its vicinity in 1898. In 1920, when Sultanowski was granted city status, it already had over 10,000 inhabitants. Since then, the place has also been called Mineralnye Vody.

In the 1920s, more industrial companies sprang up in the city. In 1925 a passenger airport was put into operation near the city, which brought Mineralnye Vody a position as an important traffic junction.

Since it was considered one of the access points to the oil fields of the Caucasus , Mineralnyje Vody was contested due to its strategically important location during the Second World War and came under the control of the German Wehrmacht in August 1942 . During the occupation, which lasted until January 1943, large parts of the urban infrastructure, including the train station and the railway depots, were destroyed. The facilities were rebuilt in the post-war period.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	31,306
1959	40.131
1970	55,149
1979	67,381
1989	70.961
2002	75,644
2010	76,728

Note: census data

Economy and Transport

Mineralnye Vody railway station

Today's Mineralnye Vody is both a major transport hub and a center of industry. In addition to the glass factory already mentioned, there are food production facilities in the city, including butter, gelatine, spirits and meat packaging, a cable factory, a building materials factory, an aircraft repair factory and railway workshops.

In the region around Mineralnye Vody there is a lot of agriculture , including wheat, rye, barley, oats, corn, buckwheat, sunflowers, soybeans for the production of soybean oil and coriander.

The M29 trunk road , which is part of the number 117 European route, runs through Mineralnyje Vody . The Mineralnye Vody long-distance station is an important junction in the network of the North Caucasian Railway : From the Rostov – Vladikavkas line branches off a branch line operated by regional trains via Pyatigorsk and Yessentuki to Kislovodsk , which is also important for the region’s spa operations. With the airport Mineralnyje Vody the city owns a passenger airport operated by the airline Kavminvodyavia with regular connections u. a. to Moscow , Saint Petersburg and Baku .

Further educational institutions

• Branch of the Rostov State University of Transport
• Branch of the Moscow Humanities and Economics Institute
• Branch of the Moscow Institute of Entrepreneurship and Law
• W.-I.-Safonow-Musiklehranstalt

sons and daughters of the town

• Nikolai Filippenko (1907–1981), Lieutenant General
• Vladimir Katrenko (* 1956), politician
• Maria Liktoras (* 1975), Polish volleyball player
• Irina Schewzowa (* 1983), mathematician and university professor

Web links

Commons : Mineralnyje Vody  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of the city administration (Russian)
• City's unofficial website (Russian)
• Mineralnyje Vody on mojgorod.ru (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)
2. ↑ Филиппенко Николай Михайлович , warheroes.ru (Russian)
3. ↑ Катренко Владимир Семенович, Портал ГиМУ , gimyrf.ru (Russian)