Nikolsk (Pensa)

city Nikolsk Никольск flag coat of arms Federal district Volga Oblast Penza Rajon Nikolsk mayor Sergei Panzyrev Founded 1761 City since 1954 surface 12  km² population 22,471 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1873 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 240  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 84165 Post Code 442680-442683 License Plate 58 OKATO 56 253 501 Website www.nikadmin.ru Geographical location Coordinates 53 ° 43 '  N , 46 ° 5'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 43 '0 "  N , 46 ° 5' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Penza Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Nikolsk bus station

Nikolsk ( Russian: Никольск ) is a city in Penza Oblast ( Russia ) with 22,471 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located on the Volga plate about 120 km northeast of the oblast capital Penza on the river Wyrgan (according to the map also corn ), a left tributary of the Insa in the river system of the Volga .

Nikolsk is the administrative center of the raion of the same name .

The closest railway station is Notschka, about 30 kilometers away on the route ( Moscow -) Ryazan - Rusajewka - Syzran (- Samara ). The city is connected to Notschka by a narrow-gauge railway built in 1936 (goods traffic only, in operation).

history

The town replaces the villages of Nikolskoye (known since 1668) and Pestrovka (known since the 1680s). These grew together when the Nikolsko-Bachmetjewski Sawod crystal factory was built. The place was called from 1761 Nikolo-Pestrowka ; the plant started production in 1764.

In 1928 the status of an urban-type settlement was given under the name Nikolo-Pestrowski and in 1954 the town charter as Nikolsk .

Population development

year	Residents
1939	10.119
1959	16,818
1970	20,740
1979	23,632
1989	26,871
2002	24,061
2010	22,471

Note: census data

Culture and sights

In Nikolsk there is a museum of glass art and crystal , the origins of which date back to 1798.

economy

In addition to the city-building glass and crystal works Krasny Gigant (Russian for Red Giant ) and Nikolski steklosawod ( Nikolsker Glaswerk ), which produce on the basis of local white quartz sands , there are companies in the wood and food industry.

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

Commons : Nikolsk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• City administration website (Russian)
• Nikolsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
• Narrow-gauge railway Notschka – Nikolsk (Russian, pictures)