27 May 2003, 00:42

Bataysk

City in Rostov oblast (province), oblast subordination, a satellite city of Rostov-on-Don, 15 km south-east of it, on the other bank of the Don. Junction of railway lines (to Krasnodar, Baku, Salsk) and highways (including the Rostov-on-Don - Baku highway). Population (1992 est.) 93.7 thousand, (1959 est.) 52 thousand, (1970 est.) 85 thousand, (1979 est.) 90.6 thousand.

Founded in 1779 - 1780 as a sloboda (settlement) on the site of the Tartar camp of Batay, destroyed by the Zaporozhye Cossacks. City since 1938.

Modern Bataysk has industrial enterprises intended for development of Rostov-on-Don. They include an assembly preforms works, an electromechanical plant, a plant for production of ferro-concrete bridge constructions, a brickworks; enterprises for repair of building equipment, repair and production of autocranes, automobile semi-trailers, etc.; enterprises of light and food-processing industry. Bataysk is a sorting centre of railway consignments of the Rostov industrial nodal point and the largest point of collection of metal breakage in the south of Russia.

Bataysk mostly has a gridiron pattern of streets. A great part of residential quarters of the city has been built up with one-storeyed farmstead houses of red brick. Narrow shady streets, the green of gardens give a special beauty to the city.

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