Nikolayevsk
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Nikolaevsk
Николаевск
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List of cities in Russia |
Nikolayevsk ( Russian: Николаевск ) is a city in the Volgograd Oblast ( Russia ) with 15,075 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city is located about 190 km north of the oblast capital Volgograd and extends about four kilometers along the left bank of the Volgograd reservoir of the Volga . The nearest cities are Kamyshin (located on the opposite bank of the Volga eight kilometers northwest of Nikolayevsk) and Petrov Wal (21 km northwest of Nikolaevsk).
The city of Nikolayevsk is the administrative center of the raion of the same name (district) of the Volgograd Oblast.
history
The place was founded in 1747 as Dmitrijew and was originally inhabited by settlers from Kamyshin (then: Dmitrijewsk) who operated salt production on a nearby lake . Towards the end of the 18th century, a church consecrated to St. Nicholas of Myra was built in the place and in 1794 Dmitrijew was renamed Nikolajewskaja Sloboda ("Nicholas' settlement ") on the occasion of this .
The industrial salt production in the village lasted until the end of the 19th century and was one of the most important occupations of the local population until it was discontinued. After the funding was discontinued, the lake was used for therapeutic mud baths .
In 1952, with the construction of the Stalingrad hydroelectric power station, the damming of the Volga in the Nikolayevsk area began. For this reason, the settlement was moved nine kilometers downstream in the 1950s. The old place with historical buildings was completely flooded by 1960.
On June 29, 1967, Nikolayevsk received city rights under its current name.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1926 | 19,225 |
1939 | 12,452 |
1959 | 11,010 |
1970 | 11,555 |
1979 | 14,836 |
1989 | 16,469 |
2002 | 16,125 |
2010 | 15,075 |
Note: census data
Economy and Transport
As the center of a traditionally agriculturally oriented Rajon, Nikolayevsk has mainly food-producing businesses. There is also a furniture factory and a brick factory in the city. Crude oil is extracted in places in the Rajon .
Nikolayevsk has a dock for cargo ships on the Volga and is connected to Volschski and Volgograd by a highway . The nearest railway station is in Kamyshin.
sons and daughters of the town
- Yuri Malyshev (1941–1999), cosmonaut
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
- Official Rajon Website (Russian)
- Nikolayevsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)