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Navaschino ( Russian Навашино ) is a city in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast ( Russia ) with 16,416 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city is located about 160 km southwest of the oblast capital Nizhny Novgorod on the river Weletma not far from its confluence with the Oka , a right tributary of the Volga , opposite the city of Murom .
Nawaschino is the administrative center of the raion of the same name .
history
Before the beginning of the 20th century, the villages Mordovschtschikowo and Lipnja existed in the area of today's city . When the Moscow - Kazan railway ran through the area in 1912 , the Nawaschino station was built , named after another nearby village (alternative spelling Novaschino , also Novoschino ).
Mordovschtschikowo received urban-type settlement status in 1928 . In 1957 the grown places were united and received city rights as Nawaschino .
Population development
| year | Residents |
|---|---|
| 1939 | 4,506 |
| 1959 | 12,460 |
| 1970 | 16,656 |
| 1979 | 17,490 |
| 1989 | 18,946 |
| 2002 | 17,810 |
| 2010 | 16,416 |
Note: census data (1939 Mordovshchikovo settlement)
Culture and sights
The city has a local museum.
The Church of the Redeemer ( Спасская церковь / Spasskaja zerkow) from 1670 is located in the village of Dedowo in the Rajon Navaschino . In the villages of Jefanowo , Monakowo and Spas-Sedchino , parks around former aristocratic seats have been preserved.
In the Rajon there are archaeological sites (remains of settlements, burial mounds ) of the Bronze Age Volosovo and Posdnyakovo cultures .
Economy and Infrastructure
In Nawaschino there is a river shipyard , originally founded in 1907, on a branch of the Oka ( Okskaja Sudowerf ), a machine factory and companies in the building materials and food industries.
The city is located on the railway line Moscow - Arsamas - Kazan (route km 299), which was opened on this section in 1912 , from which branch lines (only freight traffic) to Wyksa and Kulebaki branch off here. The R72 road ( Vladimir- Murom-Arsamas) also runs through Navaschino, from which the R125 branches off northwest of the city via Pavlovo to Nizhny Novgorod.
Personalities
- Ivan Gubkin (1871–1939), geologist and academician, born in Posdnjakowo near Navaschino
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 administration website (Russian)
- Navaschino on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
