Navashino

Nawaschino (Russian Навашино ) is a town in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (Russia) with 16,416 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located about 160 km southwest of the Oblasthauptstadt Nizhny Novgorod close to the river Weletma its confluence with the Oka, a right tributary of the Volga River, opposite the city of Murom.

Nawaschino is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

History

In the area of the present town existed before the beginning of the 20th century, the villages Mordowschtschikowo and Lipnja. When in 1912 the railway line Moscow -Kazan was passed through the area, the station Nawaschino, named after another nearby village (alternative spelling Nowaschino, also Nowoschino ) was born.

In 1957, the growing places were combined and given as Nawaschino the municipal law.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Culture and sights

The city has a museum of local history.

In the village of Dedowo Rajons Nawaschino Church of the Redeemer ( Спасская церковь / Spasskaya Tserkov ) is of 1670th In the villages Jefanowo, Monakowo and Spas- Sedtschino parks are preserved by former noble country seats.

In Rajon there are archaeological sites ( settlement remains, grave mound ) of the Bronze Age Wolossowo and Posdnjakowo cultures.

Economy and infrastructure

In Nawaschino there is a originally founded in 1907, River Shipyard on a tributary of the Oka, a machine factory and enterprises of the building materials and food industry.

The city lies on the opened on this section 1912 railway Moscow -Kazan Arzamas ( kilometer 299 ), from which this branch lines come off (only freight ) to Vyksa and Kulebaki. By Nawaschino the city also leads the R72 road ( the Vladimir Murom Arzamas ), of which the north-west over R125 Pavlovo to Nizhny Novgorod branches.

Personalities

• Ivan Gubkin (1871-1939), geologist and academician, who was born in Posdnjakowo at Nawaschino