Neftegorsk (Samara)
city
Neftegorsk
Нефтегорск
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List of cities in Russia |
Neftegorsk ( Russian Нефтегорск ) is a city in Samara Oblast ( Russia ) with 19,254 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city is located about 100 km southeast of the Oblast capital Samara on the left bank of the Sjesschaja , a left tributary of the Samara which flows into the Volga .
Neftegorsk is the administrative center of the raion of the same name .
The closest railway station is Bogatoje, 36 kilometers away on the Samara– Orenburg line .
history
Neftegorsk was established in 1960 as a workers' settlement near an oil deposit , received urban-type settlement status in 1966 and town charter in 1989. The name is derived from the Russian neft for petroleum .
Population development
year | Residents |
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1970 | 11,789 |
1979 | 15,249 |
1989 | 18,895 |
2002 | 19,388 |
2010 | 19,254 |
Note: census data
economy
Neftegorsk is one of the centers of oil and gas production (through Samaraneftegas , Bogatovskneft area ) of Samara Oblast. Oil and gas are also processed in several nearby refineries . There are also companies in the food industry; in the area agriculture.
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's unofficial website (Russian)
- Neftegorsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)