Proletarsk

This article is about a city in Russia. The article Proletarsk (Tajikistan) deals with a city ​​of the same name in Tajikistan with the former name Dragomirowo .

city Proletarsk Пролетарск Federal district Southern Russia Oblast Rostov Rajon Proletarsk Founded 1670 Earlier names Kara-Tschaplak (until 1875) Velikoknjascheskaja (1875–1925) Proletarskaja (1925–1970) City since 1970 surface 14  km² population 20,267 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1448 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 15  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 86374 Post Code 347540-347544 License Plate 61, 161 OKATO 60 245 501 Geographical location Coordinates 46 ° 42 ′  N , 41 ° 44 ′  E Coordinates: 46 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  N , 41 ° 44 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Rostov Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Proletarsk ( Russian Пролетарск ) is a city in Rostov Oblast ( Russia ) with 20,267 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located in the northern Caucasus foothills about 200 km southeast of the oblast capital Rostov-on-Don on the right bank of the Cheprak not far from its confluence with the Manych , which is dammed up here to form the Proletarsk dam .

Proletarsk is the administrative center of the raion of the same name .

The city is located on the Volgograd - Tikhorezk railway line, opened in 1899 . The city's station is called Proletarskaya .

history

The place was founded in 1670 as a Cossack settlement , later Staniza Kara-Tschaplak . 1806 was the administrative center of Kalmückenkreises , 1844 the Salsker circle of Donkosakengebietes . At the beginning of the 1870s the Stanitsa was visited by the Grand Duke and later General Field Marshal Nikolai Romanov and was in his honor in 1875 in Velikoknjascheskaja (from Russian veliki knjas for Grand Duke ).

In 1925 it was renamed Proletarskaja (from proletarians ). In 1970 city rights were granted under the current name.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	5,583
1939	11,321
1959	10,672
1970	16,278
1979	19,151
1989	19,422
2002	19,572
2010	20,267

Note: census data

Culture and sights

There is a Budyonny Museum in Stanitsa Budyonnovskaya in Proletarsk Raion .

economy

In Proletarsk there are companies in the food and textile industries as well as in the building materials industry.

sons and daughters of the town

• Arbi Chakaev (* 1990), Austrian professional boxer of Russian origin

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)

Web links

• Proletarsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)