The city of Novokuybyshevsk is a small but significant center of the petrochemical and oil refining industry of the Samara region. Manufacturing makes a great economic contribution not only to the life of the region, but also to the entire country. Large fuel enterprises are actively working and developing, glorifying the city and Samara as a regional center.
By the standards of modern cities, Novokuybyshevsk is not the largest, but it is a very cozy city in the entire Volga region. As the head of the city likes to say, the main local wealth is not even oil, but the city’s residents, because it is through their efforts and enthusiasm that the city lives.
In these places, on the banks of the Volga, back in the 18th century there was a small settlement of various nationalities: Russians, Chuvash and Mordovians. Since ancient times, waterways served trade purposes and were a real route of life. The settlements grew larger, and during the Second World War, in 1946, the first oil refining complex was founded. It was planned to develop only a workers' settlement here, but people filled the local population so quickly that by 1952 Novokuibyshevsk received the status of a city, its history began to count, which is now reflected in its main attractions.
State of the city's infrastructure
Considering the fact that the entire city is relatively young, there are very few old and completely dilapidated houses, and if there are any, they are mainly located near the city bus station and are already being prepared for demolition.
Anyone who was last in the city 2-3 years ago will be pleasantly surprised by the ongoing construction of new housing in different parts of Novokuibyshevsk. Another advantage, according to the majority of city residents, is the construction of a McDonald's restaurant at the intersection of Pobeda and Sverdlov streets.
Crossing the street Sverdlova/ Ave. Victory
If you evaluate the condition of city streets and the entire infrastructure as a whole, then only one thing comes to mind: “Everything is like in Russia.” The roads are equally poor in all directions, not counting the main highway that runs through the entire city - Pobeda Avenue and the exit from the city in an adjacent direction. Backyard streets, adjacent roads, roundabouts and junctions are broken, driving around the city is a rally with a test drive of the car's suspension.
There are practically no traffic jams in Novokuibyshevsk, not counting small congestions during prime time on weekdays. This is due, first of all, to the fact that there are not so many residents and cars to create difficulties on the road. If you do not have a personal car and you decide to take a ride around the city, then an exhaustive number of routes (buses, minibuses, trolleybuses) are at your service, ready to transport you from anywhere in the city to your destination without transfers. If you need to get there urgently or just in comfort, then by calling a taxi (there are more than 5 different services in the city), you can get there for only 50 rubles. drive around the city.
If we evaluate the situation with schools and kindergartens in Novokuibyshevsk, then it is very positive. There are no queues in the gardens, as there are more than 30 of them in each district. The schools are fully equipped with classrooms, even though there are 15 secondary educational institutions in the city.
Novokuibyshevsk has its own central city hospital with professional staff and a number of “ordinary” clinics in each of the city districts. In general, the citywide level of medical care is average and fully meets the requirements of the regional city. For any complex consultations, the population in 90% of cases turns to the city district. Samara.
The development of medicine in the city and region is directly related to the economic development of the region.
Crime
Assessing the criminal situation in Novokuybyshevsk, in general, by the standards of the city, which is one of the leading cities in the Samara region, the situation is calm. If crimes do occur, they are mostly small (thefts, hooliganism, petty robberies, etc.).
If we look back at major crimes in the city over the past 15 years, only one thing stands out. November 15, 2011 A high-profile murder took place in Novokuibyshevsk. At 13:20 in the afternoon, the general director of the Cosmos shopping center was shot in the neck and shoulder. He died from his injuries at the scene.
Shopping center Cosmos, st. Sverdlova
As a result of the investigation, the criminal was never found, despite a significant number of eyewitnesses.
Population of Novokuibyshevsk
With the growth of the city, the population in Novokuibyshevsk changed from year to year. At the very beginning of population registration, back in 1959, 62,755 people lived in the city. This population consisted mainly of workers who came from different parts of the USSR for the purpose of building a new industrial city and production. Having completed construction, people gradually began to settle in it, start families, and by 2010. 110,374 people lived in Novokuybyshevsk. However, if we look at the dynamics of recent years, the population is gradually migrating within the region and rapidly leaving Novokuibyshevsk, moving to Samara. Statistics for 2014 confirm this - 106,023 people live in the industrial city. The majority of residents are mature people over 40, who have been working at local factories for many years.
Maslenitsa. Photo of Kurganochka (https://fotki.yandex.ru/users/zoy-bikova/)
The younger generation mainly seeks to leave Novokuibyshevsk. This dynamic is primarily due to the fact that after graduating from school, young people leave the regional city for the center in order to obtain higher education and often never return.
It is extremely difficult to categorically assess the moral component of the city’s population, because it is heterogeneous (both culturally and religiously). However, we can say with confidence that the city is rich in kind and sympathetic people who sincerely love their Home. This is manifested in the positioning of the settlement by local residents. If, while traveling around Samara, you meet a resident of Novokuybyshevsk and ask where he is from, then with 100% certainty you will receive the answer: “I’m from Ensk! (Novokuibyshevsk)". Moreover, this answer will be filled with pride. The reasons for such pride are most likely the topic of another article.
Latest job center vacancies
Vacancies for mid-2021 are varied, both in the nature of the work and in the amount of wages. The most common salary is about 11 thousand rubles, and this value is found even in qualified professions: emergency doctor, plumber, master, doctor, teacher, teacher, pharmacist.
Lower salaries for doctors, storekeepers, choir artists, ballet dancers.
Salaries in the range of 20–30 thousand are found in a third of vacancies, and places with salaries in the range from 11 to 20 thousand rubles are quite rare. Salaries over 20 thousand rubles. mainly characteristic of heavy work: welder, machine operator, turner, chemist, installer, accountant and site manager. The highest salary for a diesel locomotive driver is 31 thousand rubles.
About a third of the vacancies list part-time or part-time work, which indicates an unfavorable situation in the local labor market.
Climate and ecology of Novokuibyshevsk
Thanks to the construction of a large number of enterprises around the city, the ecology of Novokuybyshevsk is under constant attack. Over the past 2013, more than 150 cases of emissions of harmful substances into the atmosphere occurred in Novokuibyshevsk. Such values are an indicator that allows us to confidently say that the air in Novokuybyshevsk is very dirty.
As for the serious illnesses of local residents, the main problem is lung diseases and oncological lesions of the body. The rate of such diseases in Novokuybyshevsk is significantly higher than the Russian average. The main reason for these misfortunes in the city and region are petrochemical enterprises, thermal power plants located around the city, and the constant increase in the number of vehicles also plays a significant role.
On the streets of the city. Photo by suhina (https://fotki.yandex.ru/users/bio565/)
The climate in Novokuybyshevsk is moderate, as in the entire central European part of Russia. However, the proximity of the river has a special influence. Volga, which leads to cold winds in winter and cool breezes in hot summers. The average daily temperature in summer is from +25 to +35 degrees Celsius. Winters are most often snowy, and temperatures vary from −15 to −30 degrees. High humidity adds special severity to the winter cold when it comes to the city with the winter months.
Enterprises and work in Novokuibyshevsk
Although Novokuibyshevsk is a small city, however, this does not diminish its importance in the region, because it is “NSK” that forms the bulk of the budget of the Samara region at the expense of its largest enterprises, the main of which is the Novokuibyshevsky Oil Refinery. This enterprise is one of the most “elite” in the region, and getting hired as an employee is task No. 1 for students of Petroleum Technology faculties of all nearby regions. Employees of this enterprise often work here for generations and have family continuity. Typically, employees involved in Rosneft and the Novokuybyshevsk Refinery are proud of the fact that they work there and have found themselves in circles where, as a rule, it is extremely difficult to enter.
Other chemical enterprises in Novokuibyshevsk, such as SANORS Holding, and in the past - a synthetic alcohol plant and the Novokuibyshevsk petrochemical plant; the knitted fabric factory, Novokuibyshevsky catalyst plant and others also make a significant contribution to the development of the city and region, providing a large number of jobs for city residents. The employees who work at these enterprises are, as they say, “simpler”; there is practically no continuity, salaries are lower, but the condition of the factories themselves is worse, because the attitude towards oil refining is mediocre, and in our country they live by the principle: everything that is not related to oil and gas production is in greater neglect than everything related to the “key” industries. The equipment is mostly of Soviet production, the personnel working at these enterprises is also mostly of Soviet times. Young people are less willing to come here because of the hazardous nature of production.
Oil refining complex Novokuibyshevsk
The main shopping center of the city is City Park. By the standards of nearby settlements, this shopping center is a very popular place. Here, every evening, the city’s youth gather at its entrance, and during the day hundreds of people work here in the trade sector.
Districts and real estate of Novokuibyshevsk
Novokuybyshevsk is a city that stands on a hill, and you have to travel through it either uphill or downhill. There is no administrative division of Novokuibyshevsk into districts due to the small size of the city. However, the local population clearly divides the city into places and areas where it is comfortable to live and spend leisure time, and places where it is better not to appear in the dark.
If we roughly carry out this division, then we should start from the highest point of the city, which can be called the “Stroilki” district (that’s what the locals call it). A dangerous area where drug addicts and rebels live in the evenings. Without a sports rank in boxing or running, it is not advisable to walk around this area late in the day. There are most of the city's hostels and many unlit streets with garages and dark alleys. This fact has an impact on the general crime situation in the area.
Also, in addition to the hot spots, Stroilka also has nine-story buildings, the apartments in which are rich in interesting layouts and corresponding prices (for example, two-room apartments cost from 2,100,000 rubles, this is comparable to prices in Samara).
During daylight hours, young people from all over the city come to this area to spend their leisure time at the second largest and most popular stadium in Novokuibyshevsk - “Trud”. In winter, the skating rink is filled, music and lights are turned on, and young people skate for their own pleasure.
Going down, we find ourselves in the upper part of Dzerzhinsky Street, popularly known as the top of Dzerzhinka.
St. Dzerzhinsky (top of the street)
This is one of the two main streets of the city, which stretches from the beginning to the end of Novokuibyshevsk. There is an upper, or in other words, a new market, but most of it is now occupied by the huge Magnit hypermarket. The houses in this part of the city are quite old; five-story buildings predominate - Khrushchev buildings. The contingent is mixed, because Stroiteley Street is nearby, and in parallel there is the cottage village “Yuzhanka”. Old one-story houses or summer cottages predominate there.
St. Shosseynaya, Yuzhanki district
The southern road along Kievskaya Street smoothly turns into Pobeda Avenue.
Pobeda Avenue, central passage
Pobeda is the second main street, which, like Dzerzhinka, stretches throughout the city. The 72nd block is the very bottom of the avenue and, accordingly, the very bottom of the city. Nowadays, this is a fairly calm area, as is the 71st block, located a little higher, and the 68th, which could not be said 30 years ago. Then these neighborhoods, on the contrary, were considered robberies, and quite criminal. Well, now quite balanced people live here and crimes are committed much less frequently than in other areas of the city. In the listed blocks there are various houses with different layouts: Khrushchev, experimental, hotel-type, improved. This is exactly how residents characterize their apartments when answering the question: “What is your layout?” The cost depends on their condition, number of floors, and also on the type of apartment. At the same time, we compare the price range with the prices of the suburbs of Samara (from 1.8 to 2.5 million rubles)
Alley, st. Sverdlova
Moving up Pobeda, you cannot ignore the so-called “Ring” - this is the intersection of Dzerzhinsky Street and Pobeda Avenue.
The intersection of Dzerzhinskaya and Pobeda. (Ring). Photo by xozar (https://fotki.yandex.ru/users/xozar/)
Victory ends, or rather begins, at the intersection with Bocharikova Street. There is Victory Park nearby (discussed below). And a little higher than City Park is a shopping and entertainment center, which has a bowling alley, a Parallel cinema, and various departments of clothing, toys, etc. and so on. In other words, a standard shopping center where there is almost everything!
Shopping center City Park, ave. Victory
Also nearby is the old, also known as the lower market, where things and food are sold, a maternity hospital and the largest stadium in Novokuybyshevsk, “Neftyanik”. It is difficult to characterize the population of this area unambiguously. There are quite adequate people, but there are also “rednecks”.
There are not many areas left that need to be illuminated. One of them is 39 sq. or popularly “Prostokvashka”.
St. Pirogov / Ave. Victory
Nine-story buildings predominate with fairly large apartments of good layout and comparable cost (two-room apartments from 2,300,000 rubles). However, in every barrel of honey there is a fly in the ointment. Curdled milk is famous for various crimes. More recently, in 2011, a murder was committed near the Monolit nightclub. This incident was even covered on TNT in the program “Psychics Are Investigating.” Therefore 39 sq. a controversial area where many criminals live, and it cannot do without drug addicts and drunks.
St. Bocharikova (Sourdough)
Next in line is the area near Mironov Street.
This is also a fairly long street. It starts from Stroilka and ends at the square. Lenin. A few years ago, it was on Mironov Street, on the peculiar Arbat near the square, that a large school fair took place in August, where schoolchildren could buy anything for the coming school year: from a pencil case to a briefcase. Along the entire length of this street there are only five-story and four-story buildings, mostly Khrushchev and Brezhnev buildings.
St. Mironova / st. Gagarin
At the end of the description of the city districts, we should talk about the central square of Novokuybyshevsk - Lenin Square. It houses the House of Culture named after. Lenin and the White House. Literally a stone's throw away is the bus station, and across the road is the Dubki park and the Rus youth club.
Bus station Novokuibyshevsk
If we describe the architecture of the area, then most of the houses here are five-story buildings of a new type. Living in this area is very interesting, because... Most of all events held in the city are concentrated in the square or in the park, and it is in these places that the youth of Novokuibyshevsk spend most of their free time.
St. 50 years of refinery
