Kochma

city Kochma Кохма flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Ivanovo Urban district Kochma head Andrei Melnikov First mention 1619 City since 1925 surface 12  km² population 29,411 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 2451 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 120  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 4935 Post Code 153510-153512 License Plate 37, 137 OKATO 24 207 504 Website http://kohma.37.ru/ Geographical location Coordinates 56 ° 56 '  N , 41 ° 6'  E Coordinates: 56 ° 56 '0 "  N , 41 ° 6' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Ivanovo Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Kochma ( Russian Кохма ) is a city in the Ivanovo Oblast ( Russia ) with 29,411 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

Kochma is a south-eastern satellite city of the oblast capital Ivanovo and only about six kilometers away from it. It lies on the Uvod , a left tributary of the Klyasma in the river system of the Volga .

Kochma belongs to Ivanovo Raion .

history

The place was first mentioned in 1619 as Roshdestvenskoje-Kochma , whereby the first part of the name refers to the name of the village church (Russian Roshdestwo Christowo for the birth of Christ ), while the second part probably goes back to a pre-Russian name of the area (also the nearby Ivanovo was called Ivanovo Kochma in the 17th century ).

In 1719 the first cloth weaving mill in the area was established in the village of Kochma.

In 1925 the town was granted city rights.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	18,983
1959	20,252
1970	22,323
1979	25,059
1989	26,962
2002	28,761
2010	29,411

Note: census data

Economy and Infrastructure

Former factory building in Kochma

In Kochma there are companies in the textile industry (cotton fabrics, linen weaving), a plant for construction machinery and a factory for enamel crockery.

The city is located on the Novki –Iwanowo railway line, opened in 1868 (route km 328 from Moscow ). The R152 Rostov –Iwanowo– Nizhny Novgorod road runs through Kochma .

Kochma is connected to the Ivanovo city trolleybus network.

Web links

Commons : Kochma  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• City administration website (Russian)
• Kochma on mojgorod.ru (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)