Noginsk
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Noginsk
Ногинск
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List of cities in Russia |
Noginsk ( Russian: Ногинск ) is a major Russian city in Moscow Oblast , around 50 km east of Moscow with 100,072 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010). It is the administrative center of Noginsk Raion .
history
First mentioned in 1389 as the village of Rogosch ( Рогожь ) and later as a trading settlement called Stary Rogoschski Jam ( Старый Рогожский Ям ), the city has been called Bogorodsk ( Богородск ) since 1781 . In 1930 the city got its current name after the party functionary Viktor Pavlovich Nogin .
In 2004 the settlements of Kowerschi and Jamskije Lessa were incorporated.
Noginsk is the headquarters of Radio Mayak . There is also a transmitter for long-wave broadcasting there.
The city had a small tram network with a length of 13.7 km, built in 1923, in operation since March 2, 1924. After a temporary interruption from April 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012, operations were finally stopped on June 12, 2013.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1897 | 11.102 |
1926 | 38,500 |
1939 | 81.004 |
1959 | 94,522 |
1970 | 103.735 |
1979 | 118,750 |
1989 | 123.020 |
2002 | 117,555 |
2010 | 100,072 |
Note: census data (1926 rounded)
economy
The wood processing industry is the most important economic source of income, followed by agriculture (close to Moscow).
Noginsk is known in professional circles for its training ground for international anti-terrorism exercises and disaster response. The last major international exercise involving ten NATO countries (including Germany ) took place in September 2002.
A tram (type 71-608 ) in Noginsk (closed in 2013)
sons and daughters of the town
- Wladimir Serbski (1858–1917), psychiatrist, namesake of the Moscow Serbski Institute for Forensic Psychiatry
- Ivan Skworzow-Stepanow (1870–1928), historian, economist and politician
- Pavel Alexandrov (1896–1982), mathematician
- Valentin Sedow (1924-2004), archaeologist
- Igor Talankin (1927-2010), film director and screenwriter
- Yevgeny Jorkin (1932–1994), ice hockey player
- Anatoly Ionov (1939–2019), ice hockey player
- Wladimir Fortow (* 1946), physicist, recipient of the Max Planck Research Prize for Physics
- Anatoli Lipinski (* 1959), Rear Admiral
- Renat Janbayev (* 1984), football player
- Olga Vilenskaia (* 1984), soprano
- Vyacheslav Kuljomin (* 1990), ice hockey player
- Tatjana Kaschirina (* 1991), weightlifter
Web links
- On the history of Bogorodsk / Noginsk (Russian)
- Noginsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
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)