Volzhsky is an industrial city in Volgograd Oblast

Volgograd Oblast

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, located on the east bank of the Volga River

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 and its distributary

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 the Akhtuba

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, 20 kilometres (12.4 mi) northeast of Volgograd

Volgograd

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. Population:

There was no indigenous population on the site of the modern city of Volzhsky until the 18th century. The first settlers were fugitives who called themselves bezrodnye and the village they set up had the name Bezrodnoye. In 1720, Peter the Great, noting the abundance of mulberry

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 forests in the area, ordered the setting up of a state silk

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 factory there.

The settlement of Volzhsky was registered in 1952. It had a population of about 10,000 at that time. In 1954 the settlement was reorganized into the city of Volzhsky. Its biggest upsurge of population came for the construction of the Volga Hydroelectric Station

Volga Hydroelectric Station

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The city was built by civil convict labor who were rewarded with houses or apartments at end of their sentence, like the older neighbor city of Volgograd rebuilt by German prisoners of war after 1945. Volzhsky was a city planned in a modern style with courtyard apartment blocks angled to deter hot summer winds off the steppes.

Industry

The main enterprises in the city are Volga GES

Volga Hydroelectric Station

The Volga Hydroelectric Station or Volga GES also known as the 22nd Congress of the CPSU Stalingrad/Volgograd Hydroelectric Power Station , is the largest hydroelectric station in Europe and is the last of the Volga-Kama Cascade of dams, before the Volga River flows into the Caspian Sea...

(a hydroelectric station), Volzhsky Trubny Zavod (producing steel pipes), Volzhsky Khimvolokno (chemical fibers), Volzhsky Orgsynthese (chemical products), Volzhskrezinotekhnika (resin products), Volzhsky Shinny Zavod (tires), Volzhsky Podshipnikovy Zavod (bearings), JSC "Zavod Meteor" (electronic components).

Culture

There are two theaters in Volzhsky, four movie theaters, and a water park.

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