One of the youngest cities in the South, founded July 27, 1950 as a settlement operatives Tsimlyansk hydropower. Large industrial and scientific center of the south-east of Rostov region, geographical and commercial and industrial center 12 rural districts (eight of them belong to the Volgodonsk settlement system), the energy center in the south of Russia, one of the core enterprises - Rostov (Volgodonsk) nuclear power plant.