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Dnestrovsc ( or Nistrovsc, Днестровск; ; ) is a town in southern Moldova, near the border with Ukraine. 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.
It is a company town which was founded in early Soviet Union 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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