Yurgamysh

Urban-type settlement Jurgamysch Юргамыш coat of arms Federal district Ural Oblast Kurgan Rajon Yurgamyschski head Alexei Perschin Founded 1891 Urban-type settlement since 1944 population 7616 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 155  m Time zone UTC + 5 Telephone code (+7) 35248 Post Code 641200 License Plate 45 OKATO 37 246 551 Website юргамыш45.рф Geographical location Coordinates 55 ° 23 '  N , 64 ° 27'  E Coordinates: 55 ° 22 '30 "  N , 64 ° 27' 30"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Kurgan Oblast

Yurgamysh ( Russian Юргамы́ш ) is an urban-type settlement in the Kurgan Oblast in Russia with 7616 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is a good 50 km as the crow flies west of the Kurgan Oblast Administrative Center in the southwestern part of the West Siberian lowlands . It is located about 8 km from the left bank of the eponymous river Jurgamysh , which flows towards the Tobol in an east-south-east direction .

Jurgamysch is the administrative center of the Jurgamyschski Rajons and the seat of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Jurgamyschski possowet. The municipality also includes the villages of Ilyinka (3 km south) and Permjakowka (5 km south-west) and the settlements Niwa (3 km south-west) and Nowy Mir (5 km south-east).

history

The place was created in connection with the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway from 1891. This year is also considered the year of foundation, although the station was not completed until 1894. The station and location were named after the nearby river. The name is of Turkish origin and describes a "swampy place". Until the 1920s, Jurgamysh remained insignificant, but on February 27, 1924, it became the administrative seat of a rajon named after him. Since February 12, 1944, it has had urban-type settlement status.

Population development

year	Residents
1916	259
1939	3815
1959	6696
1970	7967
1979	8574
1989	9078
2002	8070
2010	7616

Note: from 1939 census data

traffic

Yurgamysh is on the original route and today's southern route of the Trans-Siberian Railway Samara  - Chelyabinsk  - Omsk (route km 2302 from Moscow ), which was regularly opened on this section in 1896 and has been electrified since 1957 .

To the north, the settlement is bypassed by the federal trunk road R254 Irtysh (formerly M51), which connects Chelyabinsk with Novosibirsk , is part of the transcontinental road link and on this section is also part of European route 30 . The regional road 37K-0011 branches off at Jurgamysch, which crosses the village and leads to the neighboring Rajon center, the town of Kurtamysch , to the south .

Web links

• Official website of the municipal administration (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{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)