Shakhunya

Schachunja (Russian Шахунья ) is a town in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (Russia) with 20,921 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located about 240 km northeast of the Oblasthauptstadt Nizhny Novgorod, east of the river Vetluga.

Schachunja is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

History

1921 was a settlement about three kilometers away from the same old village, in connection with the construction of the railway line Nizhny Novgorod - Kotelnich in the future station Schachunja. The name was probably derived from the surname of Erstsiedlers Schachunski.

The station opened in 1927 received a larger locomotive depot, in the 1930s, a power plant was built.

1938, the place the status of an urban-type settlement and 1943, the city law.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy and infrastructure

In Schachunja there are companies in the wood processing, food and textile industry.

The city lies on the opened on this section 1927 railway Moscow - Nizhny Novgorod -Kirov ( kilometer 682 ), on the upside today, much of the features of the Trans-Siberian railway on its western part from Moscow. By Schachunja also leads the R159 road Nizhny Novgorod - Yaransk.