Nizhny Lomov

city Nizhny Lomov Нижний Ломов flag coat of arms Federal district Volga Oblast Penza Rajon Nizhny Lomov mayor Viktor Jurin Founded 1636 City since 1780 surface 12  km² population 22,678 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1890 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 170  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 84154 Post Code 442150-442153 License Plate 58 OKATO 56 251 501 Website n-lomov.obl.penza.net Geographical location Coordinates 53 ° 32 '  N , 43 ° 41'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '0 "  N , 43 ° 41' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Penza Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Nizhny Lomow ( Russian: Нижний Ломов ) is a city in Penza Oblast ( Russia ) with 22,678 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located on the western edge of the Volga plate about 100 km northwest of the oblast capital Penza on the Lomowka , a left tributary of the Mokscha in the river system of the Volga .

Nizhny Lomow is the administrative center of the raion of the same name .

Nizhny Lomow is the end point of a 33-kilometer branch line from the Vygljadowka station on the Ryashsk –Penza – Samara railway (freight traffic only). The M5 Moscow- Samara- Chelyabinsk road (bypass road north of the city center) also runs through Nizhny Lomov .

history

Old city coat of arms (1781)

The place was built in 1636 as a guard fortress as part of the Lomow defense line on the Lomowka river (also simply Lomow ) and was named after this. The settlement around the fortress was given the name Lomovskaya Sloboda , later its current name and under this name in 1780 the town charter . The name means Lower Lomow , to distinguish it from the village of Verkhni Lomow , eight kilometers to the southwest - Upper Lomow , which also had town charter until the 20th century.

Since the end of the 18th century Nizhny Lomow was one of the most important regional trading centers; in the 19th century it became a center of match production.

Population development

year	Residents
1719	approx. 5,600
1897	9,996
1926	9,805
1939	8.106
1959	13,881
1970	17,460
1979	22,716
1989	26,648
2002	24,249
2010	22,678

Note: from 1897 census data

Culture and sights

A number of buildings from the 19th century have been preserved in Nizhny Lomov, such as the wooden building of the former Zemstvo hospital .

There has been a local museum since 1967.

economy

In Nizhny Lomov there are electrical engineering, wood processing (plywood, matches) and food industries as well as the construction industry.

sons and daughters of the town

• Ivan Priwalow (1891–1941), mathematician
• Vladimir Kolokolzew (* 1961), Russian politician

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 : Nizhny Lomov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Rajon and City Administration website (Russian)
• Nizhny Lomov on the private website inpenza.ru (Russian)
• Nizhny Lomov on mojgorod.ru (Russian)