Zimlyansk

city Tsimlyansk Цимлянск coat of arms Federal district Southern Russia Oblast Rostov Rajon Zimlyansk mayor Vitaly Polyakov Founded 1672 City since 1961 surface 26  km² population 15,028 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 578 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 70  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 86391 Post Code 34732x License Plate 61, 161 OKATO 60 257 501 Website www.cimlainfo.ru Geographical location Coordinates 47 ° 39 '  N , 42 ° 6'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 39 '0 "  N , 42 ° 6' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Rostov Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Tsimlyansk ( Russian Цимлянск ) is a city in Rostov Oblast ( Russia ) with 15,028 inhabitants (14 October 2010).

geography

The city is located about 240 km northeast of the oblast capital Rostov-on-Don on the right bank of the Don , at the northern end of the dam of the Zimlyansk reservoir named after the city .

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

The city is located on the Morozovsk - Volgodonsk - Kuberle railway line, which was opened in 1951, but the northern part of Morozovsk - Volgodonsk with the 13-kilometer section on the top of the dam has been out of service since the 1990s, so the nearest train station is in the city of Volgodonsk south end of the dam is located.

history

In 1672, the small town of Ust-Zimla was founded by the Cossacks at the mouth of the Zimla river in the Don , subsequently called Stanitsa Zimlyanskaya .

With the start of construction of the Zimljansk dam in 1948, the flooding of the Stanitsa (4429 inhabitants in 1939) became apparent. Therefore, the place was rebuilt from 1950 on the future north bank of the reservoir and in 1952 received the status of an urban-type settlement as Zimlyansk . In 1961 the settlement was granted city rights.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	9,919
1970	13,011
1979	15,360
1989	15,343
2002	15,444
2010	15,028

Note: census data

economy

In Zimlyansk there are companies in the food industry (wine, beer, dairy products), a carpet factory, a ship repair yard and building materials 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

• Information portal of the Rajon and the city (Russian)
• Zimlyansk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)