It was founded in 1701 and was granted town status in 1809.[citation needed]
Novozybkov was a major
hemp supplier in the 18th and 19th centuries, particularly for the production of ropes for the
Imperial Russian Navy. Following the
Crimean War, the demand for hemp fell, and cultivation stopped altogether at the beginning of the 20th century.[7]
During
World War II, Novozybkov was occupied by the
German Army from 16 August 1941 to 25 September 1943. The Jewish population of Novozybkov, about 10% of the total population, were reported to have been rounded up and executed in Karkhovskiy Forest.[citation needed]
On April 26, 1986,
Novozybkovsky District and the neighbouring
Krasnogorsky District were contaminated with radioactive fallout from the
Chernobyl disaster. Today, these two areas remain the most contaminated in the Russian Federation as to the total contaminated area and the intensity of contamination (curies per km2). The area not suitable for human habitation (more than 40 Ci/km2 (1.5 MBq/m2)) starts at 1 km west of Novozybkov city limits.[8]
Ecological problems
As a result of the
Chernobyl disaster on April 26, 1986, part of the territory of Bryansk Oblast has been contaminated with
radionuclides (mainly Gordeyevsky,
Klimovsky,
Klintsovsky,
Krasnogorsky,
Surazhsky, and
Novozybkovsky Districts). In 1999, some 226,000 people lived in areas with the contamination level above 5 Ci/km2 (0.19 MBq/m2), representing approximately 16% of the oblast's population.
As an administrative division, it is incorporated separately as Novozybkovsky
Urban Administrative Okrug—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the
districts.[1]
As a
municipal division, Novozybkovsky Urban Administrative Okrug is incorporated as Novozybkov Urban Okrug.[2]
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