Dnestrovsc ( or , mo-Cyrl, Днестровск; ; ) is a town in southern

Moldova Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova, is a Landlocked country, landlocked country in Eastern Europe, with an area of and population of 2.42 million. Moldova is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. ...

, near the border with

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. It is at the shores of the Cuciurgan Reservoir and is home to the Cuciurgan power station, also known as ''Moldavskaya GRES''. It has since 1990 been administered by the breakaway Transnistrian Moldovan Republic as a part of its

Slobozia District Slobozia District (; ; ) is a district of Transnistria. It is the southernmost district of Transnistria, located mostly south of Tiraspol. Its seat is the city of Slobozia, located at , on the river Dniester. The district contains 4 cities/towns ...

. It is a

company town A company town is a place where all or most of the stores and housing in the town are owned by the same company that is also the main employer. Company towns are often planned with a suite of amenities such as stores, houses of worship, schoo ...

which was founded in early

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times by the establishment of a large power plant, Moldavskaya GRES, today owned by Inter RAO UES. At the 1989 census, Dnestrovsc had a population of 14,876. At the 2004 census it had ca. 11,200 inhabitants. According to the 2004 census, the population of the town was 12,382 inhabitants, of which 2,580 (20.83%) were Moldovans (Romanians), 3,390 (27.37%) Ukrainians and 5,249 (42.39%) Russians.The Transnistrian census of 2004 data by nationality at http://pop-stat.mashke.org/pmr-ethnic-loc2004.htm

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