Zernograd, Rostov region, Russia

Zernograd

(Rostov region)

OKATO code:
60218501
Founded:
1915
Urban settlement since:
1933
City since:
1951 City of district subordination (Zernogradsky district, Rostov region)
Center:
Zernogradsky district
The city was formerly called:

Deviation from Moscow time, hours:
0
Geographic latitude:
46°51′
Geographic longitude:
40°18′
Altitude above sea level, meters:
85 Sunrise and sunset times of the Sun and Moon in the city of Zernograd

Map

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a brief description of

Located in the north of the Ciscaucasia, in the Salsk steppes, 71 km southeast of Rostov-on-Don. Railway station.

Territory (sq. km): 426

Information about the city of Zernograd on the Russian Wikipedia site

Historical sketch

It emerged in 1915 as a Camel crossing in connection with the construction of the Rostov-Torgovaya railway.

Since 02/10/1933, the working village of Zernovaya at the educational and experimental grain state farm created in 1929. The city since 1951. In 1960 it was renamed Zernograd.

Economy

Factories: hydraulic units, agricultural machines.

In the Zernograd region, grain and industrial crops (sunflower, castor bean) are grown. Dairy and meat farming. Horse breeding.

Culture, science, education

Azov-Black Sea Institute of Agricultural Mechanization.

Universities of the city

Azov-Black Sea State Agricultural Engineering Academy
347740, Rostov region, Zernogradsky district, Zernograd, st. Lenina, 21 WWW: https://www.achgaa.ru/

Southern Federal University (Zernograd branch)

347740, Rostov region, Zernogradsky district, Zernograd, st. Lenina, 37

About Zernograd

Zernograd is one of the youngest cities in the Rostov region, is the administrative center of the Zernograd municipal district, and is part of the Rostov-on-Don urban agglomeration. The population of the city as of January 1, 2010 is 26,450 people, the population of the Zernograd district (including the city of Zernograd) is 59,957 people. The distance to the regional center (Rostov-on-Don) is 61 km along a straight path, 77 km along the Rostov-Stavropol highway. The city is within an hour's reach from the regional center.

The climate is temperate continental, mild winters, long, hot summers with predominantly sunny weather.

Zernograd today is a quiet green town with developed infrastructure, having all the conditions for a comfortable stay.

The central part of the city is characterized mainly by four- to five-story residential buildings and the compact location of all social facilities. A large pedestrian boulevard, Lenin Street, with flower beds, runs through the city center from the railway station to Mira Square. All the historical buildings of the city are located here. There is a city park, an arboretum, and three squares.

The outskirts of Zernograd are typical for most small and medium-sized cities of the Rostov region, private one-story buildings with an abundance of fruit trees, with the exception of a military town with an original architectural layout.

Zernograd is a unique center of agricultural science. At the North Caucasus Research Design and Technological Institute of Mechanization and Electrification of Agriculture (SKNIIMESKH), the All-Russian Research Institute of Sorghum and Other Grain Crops, the Azov-Black Sea State Agricultural Engineering Academy (ACGAiA), and at the North Caucasus Machine Testing Station, they are created and tested new agricultural machines, high-yielding varieties of winter wheat and winter barley, sorghum, rice, corn and other crops. A third of the bread consumed in the country is baked from wheat varieties of the Zernograd selection.

At the Azov-Black Sea Engineering Institute of Donetsk State Agrarian University, five faculties train specialists in the agro-industrial complex in 15 specialties. Zernograd is home to a record number of candidates and doctors of science for a small town. The city of Zernograd claims to be a science city of the Russian Federation.

In total, the organizations of the scientific and production complex of the city of Zernograd employ about 20 percent of the city’s working population. Their scientific personnel today are two academicians of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences (RAAS), 2 corresponding members of the RAAS, a corresponding member of the Petrovsky Academy of Sciences and Arts, 54 doctors of science and more than 280 candidates of science.

The city's scientific and production complex carries out all stages of research work on the creation of varieties and hybrids of grain and forage crops, the development of highly efficient technologies and promising technical means for the agro-industrial complex in accordance with the priority directions of the development of science, technology and technology of the Russian Federation, within the framework of federal and regional programs.

A whole range of enterprises and organizations are involved in the development of innovative developments, among them RTP Zernogradskoe CJSC as a production base, and AK Altair LLC as a sales network.

Education in Zernograd

Higher education in Zernograd is provided by the Azov-Black Sea Engineering Institute of Donetsk State Agrarian University, the Rostov Institute for Advanced Training of Personnel in the Agro-Industrial Complex, as well as branches of some universities. Among them: correspondence faculty of the Interregional Institute of Economics and Law, Branch of the Southern Federal University.

As of 2015, there are 11 kindergartens, six secondary schools, and two institutions of secondary vocational education in Zernograd (Zernograd College of Agricultural Technologies and Zernograd Pedagogical College).

There are three institutions of additional education for children in the city: Children's Music School, House of Children's Creativity "Ermak", School of Olympic Reserve of the Highest Category.

In the city there is the State Educational Institution of the Rostov Region Boarding School of the 5th type, in which 255 students and pupils study on vouchers from the Ministry of General and Professional Education of the Rostov Region, of which: 37 orphans and children left without parental care. The educational institution has a boarding school for out-of-town students, pupils, orphans and children without parental care. Accommodation at the boarding school is free.

Sports in Zernograd

On the territory of Zernograd there is the 250th center for special and physical training of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, which hosts various competitions at the federal, regional and local levels. The city has a fitness club and gyms.

In the center of the city there is a stadium, which previously belonged to the city-forming enterprise Zernogradgidroagregat.

In 2013, the municipal formation “Zernogradsky District” prepared design documentation for the construction of a sports and recreation complex with a swimming pool in the city of Zernograd.

There are 5 sports federations in Zernograd: athletics, football, martial arts, wrestling, chess, etc., 54 sections for sports, in which 15,639 people participate both from the city itself and from adjacent rural settlements.

Every year in Zernograd and rural settlements of the Zernograd district, the department for physical culture and sports of the Administration of the Zernograd district, together with other physical culture and sports organizations, sports societies, federations, clubs, conducts more than 140 physical education and sports events among various categories of the population, including complex traditional mass competitions:

• regional Spartakiad in 10 sports with the participation of more than 1,200 people;
• zonal competitions of the regional Spartakiad of folk sports in six sports;
• traditional Spartakiad among students and teachers of the Donetsk State Agricultural University in 8 sports;
• Spartakiad of pre-conscription and conscription youth;
• Spartakiad among students of educational institutions.

Annual mass physical culture and sports events are held: All-Russian Olympic Running Day, All-Russian Cross of Nations Running Day, a month of defense-mass work, in which over 2.5 thousand people participate.

There is a specialized children's and youth sports school of Olympic reserve in the city. Such sports as football, freestyle wrestling, rhythmic gymnastics, and track and field athletics are cultivated. In 2013–2014, the number of children and adolescents attending school was 1016 students (aged 6 to 17 years – 802 students).

In Zernograd the following were trained: masters of sports - 2, candidates for master of sports - 16 people. 8 first sports categories and 221 mass sports categories were assigned.

Medicine in Zernograd

The city is home to a large Central District Hospital, a clinic of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, as well as a number of private medical organizations.

Social sphere in Zernograd

The city operates: “Employment Center”, “Multifunctional Center for Providing State and Municipal Services” (MFC), “Zernograd Small Business Development Agency”.

There are three regional social service institutions in Zernograd: “Zernograd boarding house for the elderly and disabled,” “Zernograd psychoneurological boarding school” and “Social rehabilitation center for minors of the Zernograd region.”

Culture in Zernograd

Cultural institutions located in the city: MUK "Zernograd District House of Culture", Federal State Institution of Culture and Art "83 House of Officers" of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, MUK "Komsomolsk House of Culture and Clubs", MUK "Zernograd Museum of History and Local Lore", two libraries.

In Zernograd there is a modern cinema of the same name. Films in it are released on the day of the all-Russian premiere.

Various city and regional holidays and festivals are held on the basis of the RDK. The stage of the RDK regularly hosts touring artists: capital and regional theaters, pop performers and others.

In the city there is a folk ensemble “Free Don” of the district cultural center (director - Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation - V.I. Olkhovsky). For more than 30 years, the group has been captivating audiences, presenting the work of the Don region in many cities of Russia and more than 50 cities in Europe. The team emotionally and colorfully represents the achievements of the Rostov region at the annual Moscow exhibition “Golden Autumn” at the All-Russian Exhibition Center in Moscow, and as part of the delegation of the Rostov region represents the Don region at the exhibition-fair “Green Week” in Berlin.

There are many monuments in Zernograd. In the photo above is the monument to the Offensive with the Eternal Flame on Victory Square. Erected in 1970 on the site of the mass grave of Soviet soldiers who liberated Zernograd from the fascist invaders.

Industry in Zernograd

For many years, the largest city-forming enterprise in Zernograd was the production of hydraulic cylinders for agricultural machinery. In October 2009, the plant finally closed due to bankruptcy.

Now new production enterprises operate on the former territory:

• Rostov Pipe Profile Plant LLC (production of electric-welded pipe profile pipes)

• LLC, production of consumer goods (watering hose, garden plastic mesh, garden sprayers, kebab makers, meat grinders, electric kettles)

• Don Vitrazh LLC (production of products related to tempering and processing of glass used for architectural and interior glazing, as well as production of double-glazed windows)

• IP Dobrota K.Yu. (production of mufflers for domestic cars)

Other enterprises:

• LLC "South Wind" (produces agricultural machines used in crop production).

• LLC PKF "Mayak" (produces and sells about 40 types of cereal products, about 20 of them with the "Made on Don" logo, exports refined grain (chickpeas, peas, lentils, millet)

• LLC "Don - Fish" (engaged in the cultivation of sturgeon fish material, carries out work on the design, installation and commissioning of production facilities for growing valuable fish species in closed water supply installations based on original equipment of its own design and manufacture, with the ability to calculate RBO (fish farming) biological justification) and provision of fish seeding material incubated at our own production base in the Kamenny farm).
• AK Altair LLC is one of the leading logistics operators for agricultural enterprises in the south of Russia.

Transport infrastructure in Zernograd

There is a railway running through the city and there is a railway station. Regular passenger service with Rostov-on-Don is supported by rail, buses and minibuses. Passenger transportation on intracity routes is carried out by low-capacity buses. A number of taxi companies also provide their services.

Photo by Yana Tsapova

Video author: Anna Ugnivenko

Video author: Ilya Zykov

Names in honor of Zernograd in Russia and the world

There are streets named Zernogradskaya in Rostov-on-Don, Volgograd, Volgodonsk and the Ukrainian city of Makeevka, and in the city of Bataysk there is Zernogradsky Lane.

In the Akmola region of Kazakhstan there is a very small village called Zernogradskoye. There was no information in open sources about the connection between the name of the village and the city of Zernograd, however, in the historical works of Professor Viktor Zaidiner, there is mention of the evacuation of the Zernograd Institute of AChIMA to the Kazakh SSR during the Great Patriotic War. The institute was evacuated to the city of Kostanay, located next to the Akmola region. Presumably the village was named after the evacuated Zernograd residents.

For many years, a ship with the name “Zernograd” was in operation in the port of Arkhangelsk. In 2008, the ship went out of service and was scrapped. The disposal process was accelerated by a fire that occurred on the ship that same year.