Jemwa
city
Yemva
Емва
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List of cities in Russia |
Jemwa ( Russian Емва ) is a city in the northwestern Russian republic of Komi with 14,570 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city is located in the foothills of the Northern Urals about 130 km northeast of the republic capital Syktywkar on the left bank of the Wym , a right tributary of the Wytschegda, which flows into the Northern Dvina .
Jemwa is the administrative center of Knjaschpogost district .
The city is on the Pechora railway Konoscha - Kotlas - Vorkuta (station Knjaschpogost , line kilometer 1365 from Moscow ).
history
The place was created in 1941 as a settlement of the urban type Schelesnodoroschny during the construction of the Knjaschpogost railway station of the Pechora railway named after the nearby village . In 1985, the settlement received under the present name city right after the local Komi - Khanty name for the river Wym (about holy river ).
Population development
year | Residents |
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1959 | 13,706 |
1970 | 13,529 |
1979 | 15,936 |
1989 | 18,782 |
2002 | 16,739 |
2010 | 14,570 |
Note: census data
Culture and sights
There is a history and local museum in Jemwa .
economy
Jemwa is the center of the timber industry and processing.
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
- Jemwa on mojgorod.ru (Russian)