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Morozovsk

Rayon (sector) centre in Rostov oblast (province), 265 km north-east of Rostov-on-Don. Located in the headstream of the Bystraya River (the left tributary of the Seversky Donets River, the Don Basin). The station of Morozovskaya is a junction of railway lines (to Volgograd, Likhaya, Kuberle). The city is crossed by several highways, including the Volgograd - Kishinev one. Population (1992 est.) 26.9 thousand.

Arose in the second half of the 19th century as a station settlement. At the beginning of the 20th century, the settlement and the neighbouring Cossack farms (Morozov, Lyubimov and Basov) merged into the stanitsa (Cossack village) of Morozovskaya. Town since 1941. During the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, it was occupied (from July 15, 1942 to January 5, 1943) by Nazi troops.

By the beginning of the 1990s, Morozovsk was an agricultural centre (cultivation of grain, sunflower; dairy and meat cattle production). Agricultural machine plant. Enterprises processing agricultural raw materials (a meat-processing plant; a dairy factory, a feed factory, etc.). Elevator. Railway transport.

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