Nowy (Udmurtia)

Urban-type settlement Nowy Новый Federal district Volga republic Udmurtia Rajon Votkinsk Urban-type settlement since 1989 population 5742 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 110  m Time zone UTC + 4 Telephone code (+7) 34145 Post Code 427413 License Plate 18th OKATO 94 208 554 Geographical location Coordinates 56 ° 49 '  N , 54 ° 2'  E Coordinates: 56 ° 48 '50 "  N , 54 ° 2' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Udmurtia

Nowy ( Russian Но́вый ) is an urban-type settlement in the Udmurt Republic ( Russia ) with 5742 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is about 50 km as the crow flies east of the republic capital Izhevsk not far from the dam of the Votkinsk reservoir of the Kama , about two kilometers from the right bank.

Nowy belongs to Votkinsk Raion and is about 25 km north of its administrative center Votkinsk . On the opposite Kamaufer, beyond the dam, lies the city of Tchaikovsky , which already belongs to the Perm region.

history

The Novy settlement (Russian for 'new' , meaning 'New Settlement' ) was established in the 1950s in connection with the construction of the Votkinsk Dam. About three kilometers south, closer to the dam, the Wolkowski settlement was built; At first mainly construction workers lived in both of them, after completion in the early 1960s the staff of the hydropower plant and the other facilities on the dam lived. From 1969 Nowy belonged to the village soviet Wolkowski, which had become independent .

In the following years Nowy grew faster than Wolkowski and received the status of an urban-type settlement in 1989; the seat of the administration of the now called Nowowolkowski settlement Soviet was moved to Nowy, and Wolkowski is subordinate to this. As part of the administrative reform, Wolkowski and the railway station settlement Postrojetschnaja between Wolkowski and Nowy were incorporated into Nowy in 2004/2005, which now forms the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Novowolkowskoje as the only locality .

Population development

year	Residents
2002	4642
2010	5742

Note: census data

Attractions

The 20,752 hectare Netschka National Park (Netschkinski nazionalny park), founded in 1997, extends southwest of the settlement, on the opposite Kamaufer below a large river bend . The park administration is located in Nowy.

Economy and Infrastructure

In and near Nowy there are companies in the building materials and construction industry (gravel works, factory for reinforced concrete structures), the wood processing industry and a pumping station on a natural gas pipeline . The Votkinsk Dam is located between Novy and Tchaikovsky, and its power plant operated by RusHydro has an output of 1,020  megawatts .

Nowy is the end of a railway line coming from Votkinsk ( Postrojetschnaja station , only freight traffic). The regional road runs through the settlement from Votkinsk via Tchaikovsky in the direction of Chernushka .

Sons and daughters of the place

• Alexander Porsew (* 1986), cyclist

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. ↑ Website of the Netschka National Park (Russian)