Volzhskiy

Volzhsky is an industrial city in Volgograd Oblast, Russia. There become no indigenous populace at the website of the present day city of Volzhsky until the 18th century. The first settlers had been fugitives who called themselves bezrodnye and the village they installation had the call Bezrodnoye. In 1720, Peter the Great, noting the abundance of mulberry forests in the vicinity, ordered building a country-run silk manufacturing facility there. Modern Volzhsky was based in 1951. It had a populace of approximately 10,000 at that point.

In 1954, it become granted town popularity. Its largest upsurge of population got here for the development of the Volga Hydroelectric Station. Volzhsky grew round a hydroelectric electricity station which changed into built by Komsomol volunteers and through civil convict exertions, who numbered almost 27,000 via 1953. Volzhsky turned into a city planned in a contemporary style with courtyard apartment blocks angled to deter hot summer season winds off the steppes. In April 2012, the work settlement of Krasnooktyabrsky, administratively subordinated to Volzhsky, and the agricultural locality of Uralsky from Sredneakhtubinsky District have been merged into Volzhsky.