Mineralnye Vody
Mineralnye Vody or short Minwody (Russian Минеральные Воды, unofficial short form Minwody, Минводы ) is a town with 76 728 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ) in Russia in the Stavropol Region, Federal District Southern Federal District.
Geography
The town is on the kuma in the northern Caucasus foothills. Your name ( in German: mineral waters ) it owes the location near a known particularly for its mineral water springs art to which, among other things, the spa towns of Pyatigorsk and Kislovodsk belong.
Mineralnye Vody located 170 kilometers southeast of the capital region of Stavropol, and 12 km northeast of the nearest town Zheleznovodsk. It is surrounded by a steppe landscape, which continues south into a low mountain range ( which also includes the 994 -meter high mountain Smeika ).
Similar to the other cities in the southern Stavropol region has Mineralnye Vody a warm continental climate on Russian standards, which though. By a dry and hot summer, but is in a relatively mild winter Due to the long distance to the Black Sea, the temperature differences between the seasons are more pronounced than for example in the region around Sochi: The warmest months are July and August with an average temperature of 21 or 23 ° C, which are the coldest January and February with -3 and -5 ° C.
History
Mineralnye Vody emerged in the 1870s with the construction of a railway line from Rostov-on- Don to Vladikavkaz, which was completed in 1875. At the site of the present city at that time was a railway station Mineralnye Vody was called, because he ( known Pyatigorsk, Jessentuki, Kislovodsk and Zheleznovodsk together as Kawminwody ( "Caucasian mineral waters " ) ) especially for connecting to the nearby mineral water spas was intended to the rail network. This also explains that the city is called " mineral water ", although there is actually no mineral springs here.
Around the train station first was a small settlement called Sultanowski ( Султановский ). Originally rather insignificant and almost 500 inhabitants counting, the site grew from the early 20th century to a greater extent after 1898 in whose vicinity a glass factory was built. 1920, was made a Sultanowski the city status, it already counted about 10,000 inhabitants. Since that time the place has also held the name Mineralnye Vody.
In the 1920 years, other industries in the city, also a passenger airport in 1925 near the town put into operation what Mineralnye Vody earned a position as an important transportation hub.
During the Second World War Mineralnye Vody was due to its strategic location as it was also regarded as one of the access points to the oil fields of the Caucasus, fought and fell in August 1942 under the control of the German Wehrmacht. During the occupation, which lasted until January 1943, large parts of urban infrastructure were destroyed ( including the railway station and the railway depots). In the postwar period, however, the facilities were rebuilt, and until the 1980 year, the population of the city nearly doubled.
Demographics
Note: Census data
Economy and Transport
Today's Mineralnye Vody is both a major transportation hub and industrial center. There are in the city next to the already mentioned glass factory farms for food production ( including butter, gelatin, spirits, meat packing ), a cable plant, a building materials factory, an aircraft repair plant and railway workshops.
In the region around Mineralnye Vody agriculture is also high, including wheat, rye, barley, oats, corn, buckwheat, sunflower, soybeans are grown ( for the extraction of soybean oil) and coriander.
By Mineralnye Vody the highway M29, which is a part of the European route with the number 117 runs. The remote station of Mineralnye Vody is a major hub in the network of the North Caucasian Railway: From the route Rostov - Vladikavkaz here branches off a busy regional trains detour via Pyatigorsk and Jessentuki to Kislovodsk from, which is also important for the cure of the region. With the Mineralnye Vody airport, the city has a operated by the airline Kavminvodyavia passenger airport with regular connections, inter alia, to Moscow, St. Petersburg and Baku.
Further education institutions
- Branch of the Rostov State University of Transport Connection
- Branch of the Moscow humanities -economic institution
- Branch of the Moscow Institute of Entrepreneurship and Law
- W.I. Safonov music establishment