Novochopjorsk

city Novochopjorsk Новохопёрск flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Voronezh Rajon Novochopjorsk Founded 1710 City since 1779 surface 14  km² population 6849 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 489 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 140  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 47353 Post Code 397400, 397401 License Plate 36, 136 OKATO 20 227 501 Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 6 ′  N , 41 ° 38 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  N , 41 ° 38 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Voronezh Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Novochopjorsk ( Russian Новохопёрск ; German also erroneously Novochopersk ) is a small town in the Voronezh Oblast ( Russia ) with 6,849 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located on the southeast edge of the Oka-Don plain about 270 km southeast of the oblast capital Voronezh on the right bank of the Chopjor , a left tributary of the Don .

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

Its station is five kilometers west of the city on the Kharkiv - Balashov - Penza railway line, which opened on this section in 1895 . The urban-type Novochopjorski settlement extends around the station , into which the city merges practically seamlessly and which today has about as many inhabitants as the city itself.

history

Since the middle of the 17th century, a Cossack settlement called Pristanski (from Russian pristan for (ship) landing stage ) was known in the area of ​​today's city . This settlement was destroyed in 1708 during the Cossack revolt under the Ataman Kondrati Bulawin (1660-1708).

In 1710 a fortress with a shipyard was built on the Ukas of Peter the Great and named Chopjorskaya (derived from the river name). This year is considered the city's founding year.

In 1779 the town charter was granted under its current name ( Novo- Russian for new ).

Population development

year	Residents
1897	5945
1926	7437
1939	8537
1959	8900
1970	8719
1979	8757
1989	8048
2002	7640
2010	6849

Note: census data

Culture and sights

Resurrection Cathedral in Novochopjorsk

The city has a local museum.

Upstream along the Khopyor River extends from Novokhopyorsk towards Borisoglebsk the Khopyor River nature reserve ( Chopjorski sapowednik ). It was created in 1935 to protect the floodplain landscape of the Chopjortal and various forest types of the forest steppe zone of southern central Russia and their fauna and is now 16,178 hectares in size. Its administration is located in the village of Varvarino in Novochopjorsk district.

economy

In Novochopjorsk there are companies in the food and wood processing industries as well as in the building materials industry.

sons and daughters of the town

• Nikolai Iordansky (1876–1928), ambassador
• Lev Naumenko (* 1933), philosopher

See also

• List of cities in Voronezh Oblast

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)
2. ↑ Науменко, Лев Константинович , dic.academic.ru (Russian)
3. ↑ Науменко Лев Константинович , az-libr.ru (Russian)

Web links

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

• Unofficial Portal (Russian)
• Novochopjorsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
• Website of the Chopjor Nature Reserve (Russian)