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Pervomaisk ( Russian Первомайск ) is a city in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast ( Russia ) with 14,568 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city is located about 190 km south of the oblast capital Nizhny Novgorod near the border with Mordovia on the upper reaches of the Umoch River , a left tributary of the Alatyr, which flows a little to the south, in the Volga river system .
Pervomaisk is the administrative center of the raion of the same name .
history
The place emerged as a workers' settlement in connection with the establishment of an iron foundry based on local iron ore deposits by the landowner Alexander Karamsin (son of the historian and writer Nikolai Karamsin ) in the middle of the 19th century. The factory began production in 1853. The settlement was first called taschino after the diminutive Tascha of the name of the wife of the owner, Natalia.
In 1927 the place received the status of an urban-type settlement , and on April 18, 1951, when the place was renamed Pervomaisk (from Russian Pervoje Maja for May Day), city rights were granted.
Population development
| year | Residents |
|---|---|
| 1939 | 7,438 |
| 1959 | 13,707 |
| 1970 | 15,074 |
| 1979 | 16,410 |
| 1989 | 16,428 |
| 2002 | 15.094 |
| 2010 | 14,568 |
Note: census data
Culture and sights
Four kilometers from Pervomaisk is the Karst doline Grafinskije propasti .
In the village of Bolshoi Makatelem , which was first mentioned in a document in the 16th century, 25 kilometers north in the Pervomaisk district, lies the overgrown Rogoschka Park around the former country estate of the Karamsin family, which is to be restored.
Economy and Infrastructure
The most important company is the plant for pneumatic equipment (brakes, compressors, etc.) for railway vehicles Transpnewmatika , which was established in the 1930s on the basis of the old foundry. There are also companies in the textile, wood processing and food industries.
The city is the end of a 55-kilometer railway line that branches off in Shatki from the Rusajewka - Arsamas - Nizhny Novgorod line.
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)
- Pervomaisk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
