Nizhny Lomov

Nizhny Lomov (Russian Нижний Ломов ) is a town in Penza Oblast (Russia) with 22 678 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located on the western edge of the Volga plate about 100 km northwest of the Oblasthauptstadt Penza at the Lomowka, a left tributary of the Volga river system in Moksha.

Nizhny Lomov is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

Nizhny Lomov is the end of a 33 -kilometer branch line connected from the station Wygljadowka the railway Ryazhsk - Pensa - Samara ( only freight). By Nizhny Lomov the M5 highway Moscow - Samara Chelyabinsk leads ( bypass road north of the city center ).

History

The village was founded in 1636 as a watch fort during the Lomov - line of defense on the river Lomowka (also simply Lomov ) and was named after this. The emerging around the fortress settlement was named Lomowskaja Sloboda, later the current name and under that 1780 city law. The name means Lower Lomov, to distinguish it from eight kilometers south-west to the village Werchni Lomov - Upper Lomov, which also had its town charter in the 20th century.

Since the end of the 18th century Nizhny Lomov was one of the main regional centers; In the 19th century it became a center of match production.

Demographics

Note: from 1897 census data

Culture and sights

In Nizhny Lomov a number of buildings of the 19th century is obtained, the wooden building, the former Semstwokrankenhauses.

Since 1967 there is a local history museum.

Economy

In Nizhny Lomov there are plants in electrical engineering, wood processing (plywood, matches ) and the food industry and the construction industry.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Ivan Priwalow (1891-1941), mathematician
• Vladimir Kolokoltsev (* 1961), Russian politician