Novotroitsk

city Novotroitsk Novotroitsk flag coat of arms Federal district Volga Oblast Orenburg Urban district Novotroitsk mayor Andrei Velikanov Founded 1938 City since 1945 surface 305  km² population 98,173 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 322 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 210  m Time zone UTC + 5 Telephone code (+7) 35376 Post Code 462351-462375 License Plate 56 OKATO 53 420 Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 12 '  N , 58 ° 18'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 12 '0 "  N , 58 ° 18' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in the Orenburg Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Novotroitsk ( Russian Новотроицк ) is a Russian city ​​in the east of Orenburg Oblast , south of the Urals and not far from the Ural river, the continental border with Asia on European territory. The city has 98,173 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010). It is located about 12 km as the crow flies west of the center of the city of Orsk and 230 km east-south-east of the Orenburg oblast administrative center .

history

The city emerged from the late 1930s as a workers' settlement of the metallurgy combine, which was built at the same time, not far from the Novo-Troitskoye settlement that emerged at the beginning of the 20th century . The village of Akkermanowka , about 5 km to the west , today part of the Novotroitsk district , had had the status of an urban-type settlement since the early 1930s. On January 15, 1941, Novo-Troitskoye was also given the status of an urban-type settlement under the name Novo-Troitsk , and on April 13, 1945 city rights were granted. The current spelling of the name without a hyphen has been official since the 1960s.

The POW camp 235 for German POWs of the Second World War was located in Novotroitsk .

Population development

year	Residents
1959	54,484
1970	83,439
1979	94,647
1989	106.084
2002	106,315
2010	98.173

Note: census data

Economy and Transport

Novotroitsk is characterized by the metal industry, which is the largest employer in the city with around 26,000 employees, as well as the chemical and building materials industry. The supply of the city with food is assured, among other things, by a large bakery, dairy and butchery as well as other processing companies. Local public transport is carried by trams , buses and taxis. Novotroitsk is also connected to the railway network, and the major centers of Russia such as Moscow , Samara , Orenburg , Chelyabinsk and Orsk can be easily reached by train. There is also a good road connection to Orenburg and Orsk. There is a small national airport in neighboring Orsk .

Education and culture

Novotroitsk has a good range of schools, day-care centers, sports facilities and branches of various universities. The city's cultural landscape has recently received new impulses, but these are often not enough to promote culture and entertainment, so the city is still rather backward in this area.

religion

The largest denominations are the Russian Orthodox Church and Muslims . Followers of other religions are less represented, including smaller parishes of the Protestant churches .

sons and daughters of the town

• Eugene Maslov (* 1959), jazz pianist and composer
• Yevgeny Rylow (* 1996), swimmer

Web links

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

• Новотроицк (Оренбургская область). In: Народная энциклопедия «Мой город». (Russian). 
• Sergej Rakovsky (Сергей Раковский): Города и села - История Оренбуржья: История города Новотроицка. In: opck.org. Archived from the original on April 12, 2019 (Russian). 
• City portal ntsk.ru. (Russian). 

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. ↑ Erich Maschke (Hrsg.): On the history of the German prisoners of war of the Second World War. Verlag Ernst and Werner Gieseking, Bielefeld 1962–1977.