Millerovo, Millerovsky District, Rostov Oblast

Millerowo (Russian Миллерово ) is a city in Rostov Oblast (Russia) with 36,499 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located about 220 km north of the Oblasthauptstadt Rostov -on-Don on the upper reaches of the Glubokaja, a left tributary of the Seversky Donets.

Millerowo is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

The town lies on the railway line Moscow - Voronezh - Rostov-on- Don ( kilometer 966 ), of which here is a range in the direction of Luhansk and Donets Basin (Ukraine ) branches. By Millerowo the M4 highway Moscow - Rostov - on-Don leads Novorossiysk.

History

Millerowo was 1786, when the Empress Catherine the Great allowed in a ukase German-born Cossack officer Ivan Abramovich Miller ( Müller) to build on previously unused land an estate. Good and settlement Millerowo were called.

Towards the end of the 19th century the town developed with the construction of Rostov - Voronezh Koslower Railway and a branch line in the direction of the Donets Basin into a major railway junction.

In 1926 the city charter was granted.

During World War II Millerowo was occupied on 16 July 1942 by the German Wehrmacht and recaptured on 17 January 1943 by troops of the Southwestern Front of the Red Army during the advance on Woroschilowgrad.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy

In Millerowo there is a factory for agricultural machines and other machinery factories, farms next to the textile and food industries.