Rîbnița or Rybnitsa ( ro, Rîbnița or ,

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: Рыбница; russian: Ры́бница, ''Rybnitsa''; uk, Ри́бниця, ''Rybnytsia''; yi, ריבניצע, ''Ribnitse'') is a town in

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''). According to the 2004 census, it has a population of 53,648. Rîbnița is situated in the northern half of Transnistria, on the left bank of the

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, and is separated from the river by a concrete dam. The town is the seat of the

Rîbnița District The Rîbnița District ( ro, Raionul Rîbnița; russian: Рыбницкий район; uk, Рибницький район) is an administrative district of Transnistria (''de facto'') in Moldova (''de jure''). Its seat is the city of Rîbnița ...

History

Rîbnița was founded in 1628 as the Ruthenian village Rybnytsia, its name meaning "fishery" (from рꙑба, "fish"). As early as 1657, Rîbnița was mentioned in documents as an important town, at the time part of the

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. Strong Western European influences can be seen in this formerly Polish town. In 1793, Rîbnița passed from Poland to

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s executed almost 400 prisoners, Soviet citizens at Rîbnița.

Economy

Rîbnița is home to

's largest company, a steel plant which produces more than $500 million worth of exports a year and traditionally has accounted for between 40% to 50% of Transnistria's

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. Other industries are also present in Rîbnița, including the oldest sugar plant in Transnistria (founded in 1898), an alcohol distillery, and a cement factory. The city has a large railway station and a river port, as well as a supermarket owned by

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People and culture

Central Rîbnița has tall buildings and an active city life. There is a popular park near the town reservoir, and many historical and architectural monuments in the town and its surrounding areas. The main street in the town is Victory Street. Shopping mall in Transnistria

Demographics

In 1970, Rîbnița had a population of 32,400 people; in 1989 it had increased to 61,352. According to the

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, the city had 53,648 inhabitants,pridnestrovie.net
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, and 4245 others and non-declared.

Religion

Rîbnița has three places of worship located right next to each other; a

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church, an Orthodox church, and a

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Sport

FC Iskra-Stal Rîbnița is the city's professional football club, playing in the top Moldovan football league, the Divizia Națională.

Notable people

* Rabbi

Chaim Zanvl Abramowitz Chaim Zanvl Abramowitz ( yi, , he, חיים זנוויל אברהמוביץ, born 1902 – died 18 October 1995) was known as the ''Ribnitzer Rebbe'' (), and considered a great Hasidic ''tzadik'' from Rybnitsa (present-day Transnistria, Moldo ...

, (born 1902 Rybnitsa – 1995) known as the Ribnitzer Rebbe and considered a great Hasidic

tzadik Tzadik ( he, צַדִּיק , "righteous ne, also ''zadik'', ''ṣaddîq'' or ''sadiq''; pl. ''tzadikim'' ''ṣadiqim'') is a title in Judaism given to people considered righteous, such as biblical figures and later spiritual masters. Th ...

* Meir Argov (1905 in Rybnitsa – 1963 in Israel) a Zionist activist and Israeli politician *

Gherasim Rudi Gherasim Rudi (4 March 1907 in Sărăţei – 26 June 1982 in Chișinău) also Russified as Gerasim Yakovlevich Rud () was a Moldavian SSR politician and member of the Moldovan resistance during World War II. Rudi was born in Sărăţei, Rî ...

(1907 in Sărăței – 1982 in Chișinău) was a Moldavian SSR politician, the prime minister of Moldavian SSR 1946 – 1958 *

Petru Pascari Petru Pascari (russian: Пётр Андреевич Паскарь, Pyotr Andreyevich Paskar; born 22 September 1929 in Stroenți) is a Moldavian SSR politician. Biography Petru Pascari was born in the small village of Stroenți (Stroiești) ...

(born 1929 in Stroenți) was a Moldavian SSR politician, prime minister of Moldavian SSR 1970 – 1976 and in 1990 * Ivan Calin (1935 in Plopi – 2012 in Chișinău) was a Moldovan politician. Calin was President of the Presidium from 1980 to 1985 then prime minister of the Moldavian SSR until 1990. *

Eugen Doga Eugen Doga (born 1 March 1937) is a Romanian and Russian composer from the Republic of Moldova. A creator of three ballets "Luceafărul", "Venancia", "Queen Margot", the opera "Dialogues of Love", more than 100 instrumental and choral works – ...

(born 1937 in Mocra) is a Moldovan composer *

Yevgeny Shevchuk Yevgeny Vasilyevich Shevchuk (russian: Евге́ний Васи́льевич Шевчу́к, tr. ''Yevgeniy Vasilyevich Shevchuk'', uk, Євге́н Васи́льович Шевчу́к, tr. ''Yevhen Vasylovych Shevchuk'', Moldovan Cyrillic ...

(born 1968 in Rybnitsa) a former President of the Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic, better known as Transnistria * Olena Lukash (born 1976 in Rybnitsa) a Ukrainian jurist and politician and former Minister of Justice of Ukraine, member of the Party of Regions * Dima Kash (born 1989 in Rybnitsa) a Russian-born singer-songwriter and rapper based in

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* Artiom Rozgoniuc (born 1995 in Rybnitsa) a Moldovan footballer who plays for

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DoReDos DoReDoS is a Moldovan trio from Rîbnița, Transnistria. The group consists of Marina Djundyet, Eugeniu Andrianov and Sergiu Mîța. They represented Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal, with the song " My Lucky D ...

is a trio composed of Marina Djundyet, Eugeniu Andrianov, and Sergiu Mîța, who represented Moldova in the

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, in 2018.

International relations

Twin towns — Sister cities

Rîbnița is twinned with: *

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* Vinnytsia,

References

;Notes

External links

Official site of the city

Rybnica
(Rîbnița) in the

Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland The Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavic Countries ( pl, Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich) is a monumental Polish gazetteer, published 1880–1902 in Warsaw Warsaw ( p ...

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