Zhirnovsk
Template:Short description Template:Infobox Russian inhabited locality Zhirnovsk (Template:Langx) is a town and the administrative center of Zhirnovsky District in Volgograd Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Medveditsa River, which itself flows into the Don. Zhirnovsk lies Script error: No such module "convert". north of Volgograd, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: Template:Ru-census2010 Template:Replace (2002 Census);[1] Template:Replace (1989 Soviet census).[2]
History
It was founded in 1958 by merging the villages of Zhirnoye Selo (Script error: No such module "Lang".) and Kurakino Selo (Script error: No such module "Lang".), each of which had been founded in their own right in the 17th and 18th centuries.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". The merger was prompted by the discovery of significant oil deposits near these villages in the 1940s and the consequent establishment of a worker's housing estate in 1954.
Administrative and municipal status
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Zhirnovsk serves as the administrative center of Zhirnovsky District.[3] As an administrative division, it is incorporated within Zhirnovsky District as the town of district significance of Zhirnovsk.[4] As a municipal division, the town of district significance of Zhirnovsk is incorporated within Zhirnovsky Municipal District as Zhirnovskoye Urban Settlement.[5]
Economy
As of 2010, oil and gas processing remains the towns chief industry.
References
Notes
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- ↑ Script error: No such module "Lang". (State Statistics Committee of the Russian Federation. Committee of the Russian Federation on Standardization, Metrology, and Certification. #OK 019-95 January 1, 1997 Russian Classification of Objects of Administrative Division (OKATO). Code 18 212, as amended by the Amendment #278/2015 of January 1, 2016. ).
- ↑ Script error: No such module "Lang". (State Statistics Committee of the Russian Federation. Committee of the Russian Federation on Standardization, Metrology, and Certification. #OK 019-95 January 1, 1997 Russian Classification of Objects of Administrative Division (OKATO). Code 18 212 501, as amended by the Amendment #278/2015 of January 1, 2016. ).
- ↑ Law #1009-OD
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