Perevoz, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

Perewos (Russian Перевоз ) is a small town in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (Russia) with 9201 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located about 100 km southeast of the Oblasthauptstadt Nizhny Novgorod at the Pjana, a left tributary of the opening into the Volga Sura.

Perewos is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

History

A village on site of the present town is known since the 14th century.

1779 was the place the municipal law as an administrative center of a circle ( Ujesds ) the governorship of Nizhny Novgorod under the name Pjanski Perewos, the management function but lost again in 1798. The name means about crossing over the Pjana.

The main occupation of the population in the 19th century were farming and producing nets for fishing mainly on the Caspian Sea.

By 1926, the city lost because of the small population, the city charter and was now under the shortened, modern name as a village settlement. In 1962 the place again the status of an urban-type settlement and on 15 January 2001, the new city law.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Culture and sights

In the village of Palez Rajons Perewos is the Hodegetria Church ( церковь Одигитрии / Tserkov Odigitrii ) of 1680, in the village Bolschije Kemary the Maria Orans Cathedral ( Знаменский собор / Snamenski Sobor ) of 1701.

Among the agricultural sights the forest massif Itschalkowski boron belongs with pine, oak and mixed forests and limestone cliffs in a karst area.

Economy and infrastructure

In Perewos there are companies in the textile, electrical and food industry.

In the stud Perewosski trotting races of the Russian Trotter and increasingly American Standardbred bred, besides also cold-blooded racial Soviet cold blood.

The city lies on the opened on this section 1918 railway Moscow -Kazan Arzamas ( station Perewosskaja; kilometer 460).

Sons and daughters of the town

• Gennadi Yanayev (1937-2010), politician