On December 15, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA /. Novolukoml may become the capital of Chashniki District. The possibility of granting the city of power engineers the status of a district center instead of the current district center Chashniki was announced today by the Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee Alexander Kosinets during a joint meeting of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee and the Presidium of the Vitebsk Regional Council of Deputies, BELTA correspondent reports. In 2013, Novolukoml will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its founding. Large industrial enterprises are located here, and the Lukomlskaya GRES operates. The population of the city is about 16 thousand people. In the current district center Chashniki, about 9 thousand people live, and there are no large enterprises. According to Alexander Kosinets, the local authorities are justified in raising the issue of relocating the district capital to Novolukoml. "We will discuss this issue, we will see how it can be resolved. However, Chashniki also needs to be developed," the governor emphasized. Among the small cities of the region in 2013, priority in development will be given to Miory, celebrating its 500th anniversary, and Horodok, which in 2014 will host the republican festival-fair of rural workers "Dazhynki".-0-

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