Nevinnomyssk
Newinnomyssk (Russian Невинномысск ) is a major city in the Stavropol region in southern Russia, with 118 360 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ). The city is located on both sides of the Kuban River at its confluence with the Bolshoi Selentschuk, about 50 km south of the regional capital Stavropol and 47 km north of the city Tscherkessk.
History
Newinnomyssk was founded in 1825 as a Cossack settlement ( Cossack village ) near a fort, which was created in 1784 as one of nine forts of the so-called Azov- Mosdoker line of defense on the North Caucasus portion of the Russian state border. Since the fort was built exactly at a chapter of the Kuban river side and bore the name Newinny - literally " the innocent " ( according to legend, because there once Caucasian warrior murders were committed against innocent women and children ) - naturalized in the settlement later the name Newinnomysskaja, ie " settlement at the Cape innocent ", a.
Since the 19th century was a large part of the Caucasian territories to Russia, Newinnomysskaja quickly lost its importance as a border post; Instead, there developed agriculture, which was favored by the fertile soil and the relatively mild climate. End of the century originated in the Cossack village the first factory, and in 1875 it was connected with the laying of the route to Vladikavkaz in the Russian railway network.
1939 Newinnomysskaja received the city status and was called from now on city Newinnomyssk. 1936, where she started the construction of a large irrigation canal for the needs of agriculture in the Stavropol region. However, the completion was achieved only in 1948, mainly because the city was occupied during the Second World War from August 1942 to January 1943 by the German Wehrmacht and substantial destruction of them wore.
In the 1950s and 1960s in Newinnomyssk created a variety of industries. During this time, the population nearly doubled. Mid -1970s, it passed the big city mark of 100,000 inhabitants.
Demographics
Note: Census data
Economy and Transport
Newinnomyssk is still regarded as an industrial city, most notably the chemical industry plays an economic role. However Newinnomyssk applies characterized as one of the ecologically most polluted cities in the Stavropol region. Apart from chemical factories there are in the city, among other things equipment manufacturing factory and a thermal power plant of the utility OGK- fifth
Newinnomyssk is located on the highway M29 ( Part of Armavir to Mineralnye Vody ) and has a railway station on the railway line Rostov-on- Don - Grozny.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Jelena Bereschnaja ( born 1977 ), figure skater
- Natallja Mikhnevich ( b. 1982 ), athlete
- Oleg Skripotschka (* 1969), Cosmonaut
- Boris Tokarev (1927-2002), Athlete
- Denis Urubko (* 1973), mountaineer