Tolyatti had every chance of becoming typicala provincial town, famous except for its indigenous people. But the rich history, one of the largest automobile plants in Russia, a prosperous demographic situation and talented Togliatti people made the city, located directly opposite the Zhiguli Mountains, known not only to the whole of Russia, but also beyond its borders.
Brief history of the settlement
Up to the twentieth century, Stavropol, as beforeThe city of Togliatti was called, and in translation from Greek, the “city of the holy cross” was a very modest settlement. The population of Tolyatti in 1920 was only ten thousand inhabitants, which influenced the authorities' decision to transform Stavropol into a rural settlement.
The city was reborn in the 1950s.In record time, the Soviet authorities erected a hydroelectric power station, an electrical plant, Volgocemmash, several chemical enterprises and a car plant, built jointly with the Italian car manufacturer Fiat. The population of Tolyatti began to increase dramatically due to young professionals who came to the "new" Volga city in search of a stable and well-paid job.
At about the same time, in 1964, Stavropolrenamed. The city received its present name when the population of Tolyatti reached 123.4 thousand people. Not only industrial enterprises providing new-comers with work were actively built, but also residential areas. In just fifteen years, the population of Togliatti has already exceeded half a million.
Current demographic situation
To date, the city continues to grow.Social protection of the population of Togliatti, together with statistical bodies, reports that the city is the only one in the Samara region, where a positive natural increase in population is recorded. For example, in 2013, the number of joyful events related to the birth of a child exceeded the number of mourning events by almost a thousand.
The population of Tolyatti in 2017 is 710.5thousands of people, of whom about 450 thousand Togliatti people are able to work. The slogan “Togliatti is a city of young people!”, Which began to appear in the media a few years ago, seems quite justified, because the average age of a settlement is 38 years and 4 months. This is lower than in the Samara region or in Russia as a whole.
Administrative-territorial division
The city is divided into threeadministrative-territorial units: Avtozavodsky district, Central and Komsomolsk. In 2006, Tolyatti expanded due to the inclusion in the settlement of the adjacent villages, which became neighborhoods or parts of existing areas.
Avtozavodskaya district, who themselves Togliatticalled the New City or Auto City, includes twenty-six residential neighborhoods. The population of Tolyatti, living in this territorial unit, is mainly employed in an automobile plant. The number of employees of AvtoVAZ OJSC has more than 65 thousand specialists, while about 442 thousand people live within the Avtozavodsky district.
Central District (or Old Town), albeitis the administrative center of the city, but much smaller than its "neighbors" - Avtozavodsky and Komsomolsk. Most of the Old Town is built up with private houses, there are also many attractions, cultural and architectural monuments.
Komsomolsky district (or Komsa) has only120 thousand inhabitants. Territorial unit is valuable, first of all, from a historical point of view. The district literally “talks” about the large-scale construction of a hydroelectric power station in the middle of the twentieth century, and many buildings date back to the nineteenth century.
City infrastructure
The city, whose population is confidently striving for the million mark, has a developed infrastructure. But typical for Tolyatti are two typical problems of the majority of Russian settlements:
- the unsatisfactory work of housing and communal services and the non-stop increase in tariffs;
- the deplorable state of the roads and inconvenient buildings - many streets are simply not adapted to the passage of a large number of personal vehicles.
Economic situation and industry
Relatively recently, Togliatti was one of the mostwell-off Russian cities, but with the global economic crisis, the situation has not changed significantly for the better. Today, Togliatti residents are unhappy with the overstated official statistics, which reports that the average wage in the city is at the level of twenty thousand rubles. Well at least, there is no need to complain about the lack of vacancies - the Tolyatti employment center reports a shortage of workers at a car factory.
In addition to the city-forming enterprise, you can get a decent job at such industrial facilities:
- GM-AvtoVAZ is a joint Russian-American automobile production.
- POLAD group of companies producing a wide range of engineering products.
- "Detalstroykonstruktsiya".
- Johnson Control Tolyatti is a company specializing in the production of car covers.
- "VazInterService" - a plant that produces components for cars.
- "AvtoVAZagregat".
- CHP Volzhsky Automobile Plant.
- Tolyatti CHP.
- TogliattiAzot is the world's largest ammonia plant.
- KuibyshevAzot, which produces mineral fertilizers.
- "Tolyattikauchuk" - a factory specializing in the production of synthetic rubber.
- Food industry: distillery, meat processing plant, bakery and dairy, winery and many other enterprises.
