Novochopjorsk
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Novochopjorsk
Новохопёрск
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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 |
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1897 | 5945 |
1926 | 7437 |
1939 | 8537 |
1959 | 8900 |
1970 | 8719 |
1979 | 8757 |
1989 | 8048 |
2002 | 7640 |
2010 | 6849 |
Note: census data
Culture and sights
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
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)
- ↑ Науменко, Лев Константинович , dic.academic.ru (Russian)
- ↑ Науменко Лев Константинович , az-libr.ru (Russian)
Web links
- Unofficial Portal (Russian)
- Novochopjorsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
- Website of the Chopjor Nature Reserve (Russian)