Volgodonsk
Wolgodonsk (Russian Волгодонск ) is a large city with 170 841 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ) in Russia in Rostov Oblast.
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Geography
The city is located in the Don region, in the Rostov region, about 1,000 km south of Moscow and about 190 km east of the regional capital Rostov-on- Don. There she is on the Don, the Volga - Don Canal and thereby the dam of the reservoir Zimljansker.
The nearest town is Zimljansk, about 20 km north of Wolgodonsk away.
History
Wolgodonsk (literally, " Volga-Don city ") was created in 1950 as a housing estate in the construction of the Volga-Don canal and received city rights in 1956.
In the years 1999 and 2000 Wolgodonsk was the target of several terrorist attacks on houses together with Buinaksk and Moscow.
2004 Stanizen Krasnojarskaja (2002: 3.895 inhabitants) and Solenowskaja incorporated.
Demographics
Note: Census data
Traffic
The city is easily accessible via major roads and boat (in summer), which is also the transportation of industrial goods produced benefits (but by plane, bus and train bad). Because of its location on the river Don and the Volga - Don canal boat connections exist to many cities of Russia to the west across the Black Sea to the Mediterranean and east to the Caspian Sea.
Economy
On 30 March 2001 was approximately 12 kilometers north-east on the banks of the reservoir is currently youngest Russian Rostov nuclear power plant connected to the grid, was begun in 1981.
The Russian- Austrian company FAM was built in 1994 and manufactures steel structures. It is the first company in the region that produced by the European ISO 9000 standards. Furthermore, the city maintains good relations with the State of North Rhine -Westphalia in Germany. Around Wolgodonsk there are about 1,500 other companies that are active in the energy, engineering and food industry and wood processing. Traditional production seems to matter less, however.
The early 1980s, the station nuclear Masch was (short for nuclear equipment ) put into operation, which made possible the first industrial plant in the Soviet Union, the production of large reactor pressure vessels for pressurized water reactors VVER the building line. Today, nuclear -mash is in addition to the Izhora plants in Saint Petersburg the largest producer of Russian pressurized water reactors.
Education
There is plenty of primary and secondary schools in Wolgodonsk, just three institutions of the middle special education and six vocational schools. A German - Russian House of Friendship is currently under construction with the aim of being able to learn there the German culture and language.
Further education institutions
- Branch of the Public Social University Moscow
- Branch of the State Academy for consumer and services Dongebiets
- Branch of the State Radio Technical University of Taganrog
- Branch of the Rostov State University
- Branch of the Metropolitan Humanities Institute
- Wolgodonsk Department of State Agrarian University of Dongebiets
- University Institute Wolgodonsk the South Russian State Technical University