Novoanninsky (town)

Nowoanninski (Russian Новоаннинский ) is a town with 17,912 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ) in Russia and the administrative seat of the homonymous Rajons in the Volgograd Oblast.

Geography

Nowoanninski is located in the northwest of Volgograd Oblast, on the left bank of the river Busuluk in the Don Basin, and 254 km from the regional center of Volgograd away. The nearest towns are Urjupinsk (55 kilometers northwest of Nowoanninsk ) and Mikhailovka (64 km southeast).

The 3081 km ² large Rajon Nowoanninski whose administrative center is the city Nowoanninski, is located in the typical Southern Federal District forest-steppe landscape with mostly very fertile Schwarzerdboden. For this reason, has been here since time immemorial, agriculture is of key importance.

History

The present city was built near Nowoanninski an old Cossack village called Annenskaja ( Анненская ), which was known since the 14th century. It was originally inhabited by settlers mainly from the Novgorod areas here operated fishing and hunting.

In the late 19th century arose with the relocation of the railway route Lipetsk - Tsaritsyn a new station settlement a few kilometers east of the Cossack village, whose inhabitants have conservative in this way prevents a railway linking their location. This new settlement was named Nowoanninski, ie literally " New Anninski ", and in 1928 became the administrative center of the newly formed Rajons Nowoanninski within the Volgograd Oblast. In 1956, she finally received the city status.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy and Transport

In Nowoanninski more establishments are located. So there, among other things, a meat packing company, a dairy (butter and cheese products ), a medical technology company for the manufacture of ultrasound equipment, a grain processing plant, a metal foundry and forestry holdings.

The town lies on the railway line Lipetsk -Volgograd, which is part of the regional network of the Volga Railway. Is known of the 19th-century railway station of the city and the three adjacent holiday railway bridges over the Busuluk. Close to Nowoanninski also runs the highway M6 on the section between Volgograd and Tambov.