Novousensk
city
Novouzensk
Новоузенск
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List of cities in Russia |
Novousensk ( Russian: Новоузенск ) is a city in Saratov Oblast ( Russia ) with 17,011 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city is located about 200 km southeast of the Oblast capital Saratov near the border with Kazakhstan at the mouth of the Chertanly River in the Great Usen (Bolshoi Usen) on the left bank.
Nowousensk is the administrative center of the raion of the same name .
The city lies on the railway line to Alexandrow Gai , which branches off in Krasny Kut from the line Saratov - Astrakhan .
history
In 1760 the old Orthodox founded the village of Tschertanla on the site of the present-day town , named after the river of the same name (in Turkish, for example, for pike river ). In 1835 the place received the city charter under the name Nowy Usen ( Neu-Usen ; in contrast to the Usen fortress located further upstream on the Bolshoi Usen ). It was later renamed Novousensk .
Population development
year | Residents |
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1897 | 13,261 |
1939 | 12,848 |
1959 | 12,843 |
1970 | 13,398 |
1979 | 14,536 |
1989 | 16,589 |
2002 | 16,881 |
2010 | 17,011 |
Note: census data
Culture and sights
The city has a local museum.
economy
Nowousensk is the center of an agricultural area with predominantly grain cultivation. Companies in the food industry are based on this. There is also building materials industry.
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)
Web links
- Rajon and City Administration website (Russian)
- Novousensk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)