Shakhty

Shakhty () is a city in Rostov Oblast, Russia. It is  northeast of Rostov-on-Don. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 239,987.

It used to be named Alexandro-Grushevskaya (until 1867),Pospelov, p. 26 Gornoye Grushevskoye Poseleniye (until 1881), and Alexandrovsk-Grushevsky (until 1920).

 Population 
239,987 lived in the city at the 2010 Census; up from 222,592 in the 2002 Census. In the 1989 Census, the population was 225,797.

 Twin towns – sister cities 

Shakhty is twinned with:

  Armavir, Armenia
  Gelsenkirchen, Germany
  Nikopol, Bulgaria
  Sievierodonetsk, Ukraine

 People from Shakhty 

 Vasily Alexeyev (born 1942), weightlifter
 Lyudmila Kondratyeva (born 1958), sprinter
 Alina Ermolova (born 2001), rhythmic gymnast
 Marina Logvinenko (born 1961), sport shooter
 Alexander Nevolin-Svetov (born 1988), Paralympic swimmer

 References 

 Other websites 

 Official website of Shakhty 
 Unofficial website of Shakhty 

Category:Cities and towns in Rostov Oblast