Novocheboksarsk
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List of cities in Russia |
Novocheboksarsk ( Russian Новочебоксарск , Chuvash Ҫӗнӗ Шупашкар / Cene Şupaşkar) is a large city with 124,097 inhabitants (14 October 2010) in the Russian republic of Chuvashia . It is located on the southern bank of the Volga , below the republic capital of Cheboksary, five kilometers away .
history
The city was built from 1960 and was originally a suburban settlement of Cheboksary. The reason for its establishment was the construction of the Cheboksary hydropower plant on the Cheboksarsk reservoir of the Volga in the 1960s. In 1965, the place then received the name Novocheboksarsk (literally about "New Cheboksary") and the city status. In 1971 Novocheboksarsk was administratively subordinate to the Chuvash ASSR , in 1983 its population already exceeded the limit of 100,000.
On March 2, 2008, at the same time as the presidential elections , a referendum on the unification of the two cities took place in Cheboksary and Novocheboksarsk. This plan failed, however, as 63% of the citizens of Cheboksary voted in favor, but only 38% of the residents of Novocheboksarsk.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1970 | 38,864 |
1979 | 85,307 |
1989 | 114,760 |
2002 | 125,857 |
2010 | 124.097 |
Note: census data
Economy and Transport
In addition to the hydropower plant, which today belongs to the Russian energy company RusHydro , there are several important industrial companies in Novocheboksarsk , including the Chimprom chemical plant , a building material, a textile and a pipe factory.
With a connection to the M7 trunk road and its Volga port, the city is an important traffic junction. The nearest long-distance train station is in Cheboksary. The city's local public transport system consists of, among other things, an independent trolleybus network that went into operation in 1979.
Town twinning
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Žatec , Czech Republic
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Klimovsk , Russia
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Sterlitamak , Russia
sons and daughters of the town
- Olga Jegorowa (* 1972), long-distance runner
- Natalja Smirnowa (* 1979), wrestler
- Olga Smirnowa (* 1979), wrestler
- Viktor Bobrov (* 1984), ice hockey player
- Lana Prussakowa (* 2000), freestyle skier
Web links
- Novocheboksarsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
- Unofficial Portal (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)
- ↑ Regnum.ru, March 3, 2008