Berdsk

Berdsk (Russian Бердск ) is a town with 97,296 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ) in the Novosibirsk Oblast in Russia. It lies about 30 km south of the regional capital Novosibirsk, at the mouth of the river Berd (Russian Бердь ) in the Ob ( Russian Обь ). The nearest town is Iskitim, 18 km south-east of Berdsk.

History

The exact date of the city is not known; the emergence of a first settlement at this point is suspected in the years 1713-1718, when the eastward advancing Russians built a fortress ( called Ostrog ). Thus Berdsk is significantly older than the much more famous capital of Novosibirsk Oblast. Even the origin of the place name is not known, but could possibly be the Tatar language be removed.

At the purely military use of the fortress was a brisk trade, which was driven by the drawn settlers from European Russia in the 18th century. This was also favored by the position of the ostrogs between the cities of Omsk, Tomsk and Kuznetsk as well as on the road to Moscow. It was formed in place of the old fortress known as a Posad traders and craftsmen settlement that time, the name Kolyvan ( Колывань ) held and was even declared the end of the 18th century to the capital of a province independently formed. Very soon, however, the development of Possads was rejected, among other things because they feared larger floods Whether here. Berdsk was annexed to the Tobolsk government and lost any economic significance. In the 19th century it was a village that had played a role, especially for the grain processing and agriculture.

A new development was the place only in the 1950s, a few years after 1944 were performed its town status. Through the construction of the hydroelectric plant in Novosibirsk and the resulting formation of the Novosibirsk reservoir below the city Berdsk had to be relocated. For this reason the building 1954-1957 were offset by approximately eight kilometers to a new location. Nowadays there is only a small area at the mouth of Berd in the Ob, the core and the other parts of Berdsk are not right on the shore. Through the implementation of the city and all the historic buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries have gone lost.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy and Transport

In Soviet times, the industry of Berdsk mainly by three major works was - a radio station, an electromechanical factory and a chemical factory - symbolizes. The last two have mastered the economic collapse after the dissolution of the Soviet Union successfully. There are also some companies from the food industry.

With the northern Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk and other cities Berdsk both by a trunk road (M52 from Novosibirsk to the Republic of Altai ) and by a railway line (the section Novosibirsk - Barnaul ) is connected.