Cholmsk

Federal district	far East
Oblast	Sakhalin
Rajon	Cholmsk
Founded	1870
Earlier names	Maoka (until 1946)
City since	1946
surface	32 km²
population	30,937 inhabitants ; (as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Population density	967 inhabitants / km²
Height of the center	29 m
Time zone	UTC + 11
Telephone code	(+7) 42433
Post Code	694620-694627
License Plate	65
OKATO	64 440
Website	adm.kholmsk.ru
Geographical location
Coordinates	47 ° 3 ' N , 142 ° 3' E Coordinates: 47 ° 3 '0 " N , 142 ° 3' 0" E
	Situation in Russia
	Location in Sakhalin Oblast
	List of cities in Russia

Cholmsk ( Russian Холмск ) is a city in Sakhalin Oblast ( Russia ) with 30,937 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located on the west coast of the southern part of the Sakhalin Island , about 80 km west of the Oblast capital Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk , on the Nevelskoi Bay of the Sea of Japan .

Soviet city coat of arms (1972)

The city of Cholmsk is administratively directly subordinate to the Oblast and at the same time the administrative center of the raion of the same name .

history

The place was founded by the landing of ten soldiers on May 21, 1870 as a Russian military post. The place name Mauka was adopted from the Ainu language. From 1905 to 1945 he belonged to the Treaty of Portsmouth , which ended the Russo-Japanese War 1904–1905, as Maoka ( Japanese 真岡町 , - chō , literally: "real / true hill") to Japan. As a result of the Second World War , the city came back to the Soviet Union and received city rights in 1946 under its current name (from Russian cholm for hill, in reference to the terraced arrangement of the place around the harbor bay).

Population development

Climate diagram Kholmsk

year	Residents
1941	19.193
1959	31,541
1970	37,412
1979	45.158
1989	51,381
2002	35.141
2010	30,937

Note: census data

Economy and Infrastructure

The city is characterized by shipping and fishing. The port serves as a sea, ferry and fishing port and is the base of operations for the fishing fleet of Sachmore products and the Sakhalin shipping company (Sachalinskoje morskoje parochodstwo). There is also a paper mill as well as construction and food industries.

Cholmsk is the terminus of the railway ferry connection to Vanino on the Russian mainland ( Khabarovsk region ). The city is located on the narrow-gauge railway line ( cape gauge 1067 mm) running along the west coast of the island, Ilyinsk - Shakhta-Sakhalinskaya . The direct rail connection to the Oblast capital Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk was largely shut down due to the poor condition of the line in 1994, it is only in operation from Kholmsk to the Nikolaichuk stop . Kholmsk has an airport.

sons and daughters of the town

Ri Kaisei (* 1935), Japanese writer of Korean descent
Tadashi Nakamura (* 1942), Japanese martial arts expert
Igor Jurjewitsch Nikolajew (* 1960), singer and songwriter
Maxim Scheiko (* 1988), weightlifter

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)

Web links

Commons : Kholmsk - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

[einwohner_aktuell-1] Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)


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