Zhirnovsk

city Zhirnovsk Жирновск flag coat of arms Federal district Southern Russia Oblast Volgograd Rajon Zhirnovsk City since 1958 surface 27  km² population 16,872 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 625 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 120  m Time zone UTC + 4 Telephone code (+7) 84454 Post Code 403790-403793 License Plate 34, 134 OKATO 18 212 501 Website www.jirnovsk.ru Geographical location Coordinates 50 ° 59 ′  N , 44 ° 46 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 0 ″  N , 44 ° 46 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Volgograd Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Zhirnovsk ( Russian Жирновск ) is a city with 16,872 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in the Volgograd Oblast in southern Russia .

location

Zhirnovsk is located in the north of the Volgograd Oblast, around 320 kilometers north of the regional capital Volgograd and around 170 kilometers southwest of the city of Saratov . The closest city is Kalininsk ; this is located in the neighboring Saratov Oblast , about 70 km north of Schirnowsk. The Medveditsa River, which flows into the Don, flows near Zhirnovsk .

history

The city of Schirnovsk emerged in the 1950s from the former villages of Schirnoje ( Жирное ) and Kurakino ( КURакино ), both of which had existed since the 17th or 18th century. After oil deposits were discovered and developed near the villages at the end of the 1940s , Schirnowsk was built as a workers' settlement from 1954. Already in 1958 the settlement had almost 10,000 inhabitants and received city rights in the same year; a year later the place also became the administrative center of the newly formed Rajons in the Volgograd Oblast.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	9,852
1970	14,656
1979	15,681
1989	16,792
2002	17,751
2010	16,872

Note: census data

economy

Today the extraction and processing of mineral oil is still one of the city's most important branches of industry. In addition, Schirnowsk has factories in the food industry.

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

Commons : Schirnowsk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Zhirnovsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)