Dobrinka, Lipetsk Oblast

Dobrinka (Russian Добринка ) is a settlement in the Lipetsk Oblast (Russia) with 9572 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The settlement is located in the forest-steppe areas in the southeastern part of the oblast, about 75 kilometers southeast of the crow Oblastverwaltungszentrum Lipetsk.

Dobrinka is the administrative center of the Rajons Dobrinski and seat of the municipality Possjolok Dobrinka to the next to the settlement nor the two villages Fjodorowka ( about 4 km north of the town center ) and Woskressenowka (6 km south-east ) belong.

History

The place was (now village Dobroje and also Rajonzentrum in Lipetsk Oblast ) founded on 30 May 1802 by evacuees from the small town of Dobry Ujesds Lebedyan in the government of Tambov and named after this Dobrinskije Wysselki ( wysselki referred to by Russian resettlement resulting farms or places ). Later, the short form Dobrinka a naturalized. In the 19th century, the name Bach Tino was a time a common, after the owner of the village.

1869, the railway line was Grjasi - Borisoglebsk past the village and opened a station. 1871 was the extension of the line to Tsaritsyn (now Volgograd) on the Volga, which led to an economic boom.

With the creation of a Rajons 1928 Dobrinka became its administrative center.

1967 the company merged with the nearby village Tschujewka and the smaller towns and Nikolskoje Tschamlytschok with which it was grown together effectively combined and received the status of an urban-type settlement, but in 2005 the it lost again. Nevertheless, he was under the administrative reform in Russia the seat of a municipality.

Demographics

Note: from 1959 census data

Culture and sights

Since 2002, there is a literature and history museum in Dobrinka. Instead of an old, destroyed in the 1930s, a new church was formed in 2000.

Personalities

From 1888 to 1889 worked the young Alexei Peshkov, later housed famous as a writer Maxim Gorky, at the station Dobrinka as a night watchman and was in a home for unmarried employees. This stage of life is reflected in the autobiographical story The night watchman ( Storosch ) resist; He also wrote on motives were there a story the story the victim of boredom ( radi Skuki ). For this reason, stood in Dobrinka first up in the 1990s, a Maxim Gorky monument; 2002 was built to mark the 200th anniversary of the town a new monument.

Economy and infrastructure

Dobrinka as the center of an agricultural area has mainly through companies in the food industry, including a large, built in 1979 sugar mill.

The village lies on the South Eastern Railway operated by the railway line Grjasi - Volgograd, part one of the connections between Central Russia unt lower Volga ( route 523 km from Moscow). Road link is also in the direction Grjasi and for a good 15 km to the southeast, near the settlement Mordowo leading past highway R193 Voronezh - Tambov.