Proletarsk, Rostov Oblast

Proletarsk (Russian Пролетарск ) is a city in Rostov Oblast (Russia) with 20 267 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located in the northern Caucasus foothills about 200 km southeast of Rostov-on- Don Oblasthauptstadt on the right bank of the Tscheprak near its confluence with the Manytsch who is here dammed to Proletarsker dam.

Proletarsk is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

The town lies on the railway line opened in 1899 Volgograd Tikhoretsk. The station of the city is called Proletarskaja.

History

The village was founded in 1670 as a Cossack settlement, later Staniza Kara- Tschaplak. In 1806 it was the administrative center of Kalmückenkreises, 1844 Salsker the circle of Donkosakengebietes. In the early 1870s the Cossack village was visited by the Grand Duke and later Field Marshal Nikolai Romanov and was in his honor in 1875 in Welikoknjascheskaja ( Veliky Knyaz of Russian for Grand Duke ).

In the 1920s, the renamed Proletarskaja (of proletarians ) was performed. In 1970 the city charter was granted under the present name.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Culture and sights

In the Staniza Budjonnowskaja in Rajon Proletarsk is a Budjonny Museum.

Economy

In Proletarsk there are companies in the food and textile industries as well as the building materials industry.