Volodarsk

This article deals with the city in Russia, for information on the urban-type settlement of the same name in Ukraine, see Volodarsk (Ukraine) , for information on the urban-type settlement with the same name in Ukraine, see also Khoroshiw .

city Volodarsk Володарск flag Federal district Volga Oblast Nizhny Novgorod Rajon Volodarsk First mention 15th century City since 1956 surface 25  km² population 9,928 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 397 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 75  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 83136 Post Code 606070 License Plate 52, 152 OKATO 22 231 503 Geographical location Coordinates 56 ° 13 '  N , 43 ° 10'  E Coordinates: 56 ° 13 '0 "  N , 43 ° 10' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Volodarsk ( Russian Володарск ) is a city in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast ( Russia ) with 9,928 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

Volodarsk

The city is located about 50 km west of the oblast capital Nizhny Novgorod on the Seima and Saton rivers, not far from their confluence with the Oka , a left tributary of the Volga .

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

history

The village of Seima on the river of the same name was first mentioned in the 15th century. The name is probably of Finno-Ugric origin (see Saimaa Lake in Finland ).

A former Vorwerk this village, Olgino , was established in 1920 in honor of the revolutionary W. Volodarsky in Wolodary renamed. In 1932 this place received the status of an urban-type settlement ; the old village of Seima and a few others were incorporated.

In 1956 the town charter was granted under its current name.

Population development

Church in Volodarsk

year	Residents
1939	12,892
1959	13,195
1970	12,748
1979	12,354
1989	11,034
2002	10,989
2010	9,928

Note: census data

Culture and sights

Individual buildings from the 19th century have been preserved in Volodarsk.

Economy and Infrastructure

In Volodarsk, as the center of an agricultural region, there are predominantly food industry companies.

The city is located on the Moscow – Nizhny Novgorod railway line, opened in 1862 ( Seima station ; route km 390), on which a large part of the Trans-Siberian Railway's western part now runs from Moscow.

The trunk road M7 Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod- Kazan - Ufa (part of the European route 22 ) leads north past the city.

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 : Volodarsk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Volodarsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)