Kotelnikovo, Volgograd Oblast

Kotelnikovo (Russian Котельниково ) is a town with 20,428 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ), and administrative center of the homonymous Rajons in the Volgograd Oblast in Russia.

Geography

Kotelnikovo located south of the oblast, 190 km south-west of the regional center of Volgograd and a few kilometers north of the administrative border of the Rostov Oblast. Just north of the city begins a branch of Zimljansker dam of Don.

The Kotelnikovo nearest cities are Wolgodonsk (74 miles west) and Zimljansk (77 miles west). Both are located in the Rostov Oblast.

History

Kotelnikovo was created in 1897 as a settlement in which two years later opened railway station on the route Volgograd (then Tsaritsyn ) to Salsk. The place name is derived from the family name Kotelnikov, who is said to have heard one of the first settlers of this area.

During World War II the site was used during the Battle of Stalingrad as a base for German troops of Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, until he was liberated on December 29, 1942 as part of a counter-offensive of the Red Army units.

The city status was given Kotelnikovo 1955.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy and infrastructure

Kotelnikovo is located in an agriculturally dominated region until today. For this reason, the industry of the city with companies in the food industry and the agricultural engineering has a strong focus on this sector towards. However, in particular the engineering has come during the economic crisis period of the 1990s to a virtual standstill. Currently there instead of the Group EuroChem plans to build a chemical plant in Kotelnikovo to process the potassium salts near the town developed there. This construction project is to be implemented in cooperation with, inter alia, the German Thyssen Schachtbau.