Novaya Igirma

Urban-type settlement Novaya Igirma Новая Игирма coat of arms Federal district Siberia Oblast Irkutsk Rajon Nizhneilimsky Founded 1966 Urban-type settlement since 1967 population 10,161 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 310  m Time zone UTC + 8 Telephone code (+7) 39566 Post Code 665684-665685 License Plate 38, 85, 138 OKATO 25 226 560 Geographical location Coordinates 57 ° 8 '  N , 103 ° 55'  E Coordinates: 57 ° 8 '0 "  N , 103 ° 55' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Irkutsk Oblast

List of large settlements in Russia

Novaya Igirma ( Russian Новая Игирма ) is an urban-type settlement in Irkutsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 10,161 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located in the northwest of the Lena Angara plateau , about 800 kilometers (as the crow flies) north of the Oblast capital Irkutsk on the Igirma river of the same name, about 25 kilometers above its confluence with the Ilim . At Novaya Igirma the river is still in the storage area of ​​the Ust-Ilimsk reservoir of the Angara .

Novaya Igirma is located in Nizhneilimsky Rajon (Lower Ilim) about 70 kilometers north of its administrative center Zheleznogorsk-Ilimski .

history

The place arose from 1966 in connection with the construction of a branch line of the Baikal-Amur-Magistrale from the station Khrebtovaya near Schelesnogorsk-Ilimski to Ust-Ilimsk , where the Angara dam and a large cellulose factory were to be built. In the following year, the status of urban-type settlement was given.

The first train reached Novaya Igirma in 1968, and the entire railway line began operating in 1973. As a result, the place developed into a center of forestry.

Population development

year	Residents
1967	3.135
1970	7,666
1979	8,811
1989	13,070
2002	10,965
2010	10.161

Note: from 1970 census data

Economy and Infrastructure

Novaya Igirma is the center of forestry.

This is where the Igirma station on the Khrebtovaya – Ust-Ilimsk railway line is located (km 70). The road from Zheleznogorsk-Ilimsky to Ust-Ilimsk also runs through Novaya Igirma.

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 of State Statistics of the Russian Federation); Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 g. po Irkutskoj oblasti (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010 for Irkutsk Oblast). on-line

Web links

• Unofficial website of the settlement (Russian)