Kamenka, Penza Oblast
Kamenka (Russian Каменка ) is a town in Penza Oblast (Russia) with 39,577 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).
Geography
The city is located on the western edge of the Volga plate about 75 km west of the Oblasthauptstadt Pensa on ATMIS, a left tributary of the Volga river system in Moksha.
Kamenka is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.
The town lies on the railway line opened in 1874 Ryazhsk - Pensa - Sysran ( station Belinskaja ).
History
The village of Kamenka built in the 18th century.
Once after the beginning of World War II, a farm machinery factory in the western part of the Soviet Union was moved to Kamenka, the population grew rapidly, so that the place on 15 June 1944, the status of an urban-type settlement and on 18 April 1951 became a town.
Demographics
Note: from 1897 census data
Culture and sights
The city has a local history museum, which is housed in an Art Nouveau buildings Bank of 1911-1913. In addition, other buildings from this period, such as the post office in 1913 and the Palace (1914 ) of Count Vladimir Wojeikow ( 1868-1942, influential landowners in the area, Major General, commander of the palace guard of Nicholas II, the first President of the Russian Olympic Committee ).
Economy
The largest company in the city is the work of Agricultural Technology ( Belinskselmasch ), and there are construction industry and food industry ( sugar factory ATMIS - Zahar, at the opening of 1975 was one of the largest in the Soviet Union).