Pyschma (place)
Urban-type settlement
Pyschma
Пышма
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Pyschma ( Russian Пышма́ ) is an urban-type settlement in the Sverdlovsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 9806 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The settlement is located in the west of the West Siberian lowlands , about 160 km as the crow flies east of the oblast capital Yekaterinburg on the left bank of the river Pyshma and its small left tributary Jurmatsch.
Pyschma is the administrative center of the urban district of the same name, which was created as part of the Russian administrative reform in 2005 through the transformation of the former Pyschma Rajons.
history
The place was founded in 1646 by the Oschtschepkow brothers from Veliky Ustyug and later named after them as Oschtschepkowo. A village closer to the Pyschma River in the area of today's center was called Pyschmenskoje. In 1655 an ostrog was built. There were Cossacks stationed and settled in the area farmers from neighboring areas of the Urals to Nevyansk , Alapayevsk came and Yekaterinburg.
In 1885, the Yekaterinburg - Tyumen railway line passed Oschtschepkowo, which is now part of the Trans-Siberian Railway .
In 1943, the villages of Oschtschepkowo and Pyschmenskoje were united and received the status of an urban-type settlement under their current name.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1939 | 1,567 |
1959 | 6,570 |
1970 | 7,920 |
1979 | 9,270 |
1989 | 11,515 |
2002 | 10,262 |
2010 | 9,806 |
Note: census data
Economy and Infrastructure
In Pyschma there are mechanical engineering and food industries. The settlement is the center of an agricultural area.
The settlement is located on the Trans-Siberian Railway (station name Oschtschepkowo ; route kilometers from Moscow in 1996 ), from which a mainly forestry freight line branches off to Butka . The regional road R351 from Yekaterinburg to Tyumen also runs through Pyschma .
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)
- ↑ a b Pyschma on the website of the Geographical Institute of the RAN (Russian)