Povorino

Poworino (Russian Поворино ) is a town with 17,692 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ), and raion administrative center in the eastern part of the Voronezh Oblast in Russia.

Geography

Poworino is located 220 km south-east of the regional center of Voronezh and a few kilometers north of the administrative boundary of the Voronezh Oblast Volgograd Oblast in the southern Oka -Don plain. The nearest towns are Borisoglebsk (21 km north-west of Poworino ) Nowochopjorsk (45 miles west) and Urjupinsk ( in Volgograd Oblast, 47 km south).

History

The town was founded in 1870 with the completed construction of the railway station of the same name along the route Lipetsk - Tsaritsyn and existed initially as a station settlement. With the construction of two additional rail lines that lead from here, Poworino won as a transportation hub in importance and eventually became a city in 1954.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy and infrastructure

Poworino is the center of a predominantly agricultural county and has therefore primarily food industry. As a hub of several railways, it has railway workshops and other rail-related businesses. The area has several streets, including the M6 highway crossing on the section between Tambov and Volgograd, which is a part of European route E119 from Moscow to Astara in Azerbaijan.