Volgodonsk

city Volgodonsk Волгодонск flag coat of arms Federal district Southern Russia Oblast Rostov Urban district Volgodonsk mayor Viktor Melnikov Founded 1950 City since 1956 surface 182  km² population 170,841 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 939 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 50  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 86392 Post Code 347360-347399 License Plate 61, 161 OKATO 60 412 Website www.volgodonskgorod.ru Geographical location Coordinates 47 ° 31 '  N , 42 ° 9'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 31 '0 "  N , 42 ° 9' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Rostov Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Volgodonsk ( Russian Волгодо́нск ) is a city with 170,841 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in Russia in the Rostov region .

geography

The city is located in the Don region, in the Rostov region, about 1000 km south of Moscow and about 190 km east of the regional capital Rostov-on-Don . There it is on the Don , on the Volga-Don Canal and thus on the dam of the Zimlyansk Reservoir .

The closest city is Zimlyansk , about 20 km north of Volgodonsk.

history

Volgodonsk (literally: "Volga-Don City") was created in 1950 as a workers' settlement when the Volga-Don Canal was built and in 1956 received city rights.

In 1999 and 2000, Volgodonsk, along with Buinaksk and Moscow, was the target of several terrorist attacks on residential buildings .

In 2004, the Stanizi Krasnoyarskaya (2002: 3,895 inhabitants) and Solenovskaya were incorporated.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	15,710
1970	28,100
1979	91,313
1989	175,593
2002	165.994
2010	170.841

Note: census data

traffic

The city can be easily reached by highways and by ship (in summer), which also benefits the transport of the manufactured industrial goods (but poorly by plane, bus and train). Due to its location on the Don River and the Volga-Don Canal, there are shipping connections to many cities in Russia, to the west over the Black Sea to the Mediterranean and to the east to the Caspian Sea .

economy

Church of the Icon of Our Lady of the Don in Volgodonsk

On March 30, 2001, about 12 kilometers to the northeast on the banks of the reservoir, the currently youngest Russian nuclear power plant in Rostov went online, construction of which had already started in 1981.

The Russian-Austrian company FAM was built in 1994 and produces steel structures. It is the first company in the region to produce in accordance with the European ISO 9000 standard. The city also maintains good relations with the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany . Around Volgodonsk there are around 1500 other companies that are active in the energy, mechanical engineering and food industries as well as wood processing. Artisanal production, on the other hand, seems to be less important.

Early 1980 was the work of nuclear Masch (short for nuclear equipment taken) in operation, the first industrial plant in the Soviet Union, the production of large reactor pressure vessels for pressurized water reactors of the construction line VVER made possible. Today the operating company Atomenergomasch is the largest producer of Russian pressurized water reactors and petrochemical plants alongside the Ischora works in Saint Petersburg .

education

There are sufficient secondary and secondary schools in Volgodonsk, as well as three institutions of intermediate special education and six vocational schools. A German-Russian House of Friendship is currently being set up with the aim of being able to learn German culture and language there.

Further educational institutions

• Branch of the Moscow Public Social University
• Branch of the State Academy of Consumption and Services of the Don Region
• Branch of Taganrog State Radio Technical University
• Branch of the Rostov State University
• Branch of the Metropolitan Humanities Institute
• Volgodonsk Department of the Don Region State Agricultural University
• Volgodonsk University Institute of the South Russian State Technical University

Town twinning

• Dolni Dabnik , Bulgaria

sons and daughters of the town

• Olga Beljajewa (* 1985), Russian water polo player
• Dmitri Kudrjaschow (* 1985), Russian boxer and honorary citizen of Volgodonsk
• Anna Ustjuchina (* 1989), Russian water polo player
• Yekaterina Prokofjewa (* 1991), Russian water polo player

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. ↑ Olga Beljajewa in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
3. ↑ Дмитрий Кудряшов , vsenabox.ru (Russian)
4. ↑ Ustyukhina's profile on infosport.ru (Russian)
5. ^ Jekaterina Prokofjewa in the database of Sports-Reference (English)

Web links

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

• Unofficial website (Russian)
• Volgodonsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)