Nowy Gorodok
Urban-type settlement
Nowy Gorodok
Новый Городок
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Nowy Gorodok ( Russian Но́вый Городо́к ) is an urban-type settlement in the Kemerovo Oblast ( Russia ) with 15,750 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The settlement is located in the west of the Kuznetsk Basin , about 120 km as the crow flies south of the Oblast capital Kemerovo , to the right of the Bolshoi Batschat (Great Batschat) river, the right source river of the Batschat that flows into the Inja .
Nowy Gorodok belongs to the city district Belovo and is about 12 km south of the center of the city Belovo. Between the settlement and the center of Belovo are the districts of Bobonakovo and Chertinsky, separated from each other by industrial and mining areas and from Nowy Gorodok.
history
Nowy Gorodok ("New Town") emerged as a miners' settlement in the 1960s to 1970s in connection with the expansion of coal mining southwest of the city of Belovo as its district. In January 1988 it was spun off and given urban-type settlement status.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1989 | 20,278 |
2002 | 16,765 |
2010 | 15,750 |
Note: census data
Economy and Infrastructure
In and around Nowy Gorodok there are several coal mines ( Tschertinskaja , Nowaja , Sapadnaja ) and companies in the construction industry.
There is a road connection in the direction of Belovo. Several kilometers away, the settlement is bypassed to the west by the Novosibirsk - Novokuznetsk railway line ( Ulus station ) and to the east by the old and the new motorway-like route of the regional road Kemerovo - Leninsk-Kuznetsky - Novokuznetsk.
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)