Morozovsk

Morozovsk (Russian Морозовск ) is a city in Rostov Oblast (Russia) with 27,642 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located about 260 km northeast of the Oblasthauptstadt Rostov -on-Don on the upper reaches of the Bystraja, a left tributary of the Seversky Donets.

Morozovsk is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

The town lies on the railway line Lichowskoi ( station Lichaja ) -Volgograd. The branch here in the direction Zimljansk - Wolgodonsk route is out of service since the 1990s. Through the city performs the highway M21 from Volgograd to the Ukrainian border in Donetsk, which leads in Ukraine more than 04 M in the direction of Luhansk, Donetsk (Ukraine) and Dnipropetrovsk. The M21 is part of the European route 40

History

The village was founded in the 1880s as a village Morozov, named after the first settlers. In 1900 distance was opened in the village of Morosovskaya station on the new railway line Lichaja - Tsaritsyno in three kilometers.

In 1910 near the railway station a Kosakenstaniza which was named after the German -born Taubejewskaja Ataman the Orenburg Cossacks Baron Feodor von Taube ( 1857-1911 ). As part of the renaming campaign of place names of German origin during the First World War, however, relatively late, also received the Cossack village after the station on April 24, 1917 Morosovskaya name.

Village, Bahnhofsiedlung and Staniza grew together gradually, so that in 1941 the town charter was granted under the present name.

During World War II Millerowo was occupied on 15 July 1942 by the German Wehrmacht and recaptured on January 5, 1943 by troops of the Southwestern Front of the Red Army during the advance on Woroschilowgrad.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy

The most important operation of the city is the agricultural machinery factory Morosowskselmasch. In addition, there are companies in the food industry.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Valeri Aleksandrovich Belikov (1925-1987), Soviet army general