Shimanovsk

city Shimanovsk Chimanovsk flag Federal district far East Oblast Amur Urban district Shimanovsk head Nikolai Dontsov Founded 1910 Earlier names Pjora (until 1914) Gondatti (until 1920) Wladimiro-Schimanowski (until 1950) City since 1950 surface 50  km² population 19,815 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 396 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 280  m Time zone UTC + 9 Telephone code (+7) 41651 Post Code 676300-676307 License Plate 28 OKATO 10 440 Website shimanovsk.amsu.ru Geographical location Coordinates 52 ° 0 ′  N , 127 ° 40 ′  E Coordinates: 52 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 127 ° 40 ′ 0 ″  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Amur Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Shimanovsk ( Russian Шимановск ) is a city in the Amur Oblast ( Russia ) with 19,815 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located in the Far East of Russia , northeast of the border river Amur , about 250 km northwest of the Oblast capital Blagoveschensk , on the right tributary of the Seja , Bolshaya Pjora .

The city of Shimanovsk is administratively directly subordinate to the Oblast and at the same time the administrative center of the Rajon of the same name .

Shimanovsk is located on the Trans-Siberian Railway, which was opened on this section in 1914 ( Shimanovskaya station , route km 7723 from Moscow ).

history

Shimanovsk was built in 1910 in connection with the construction of the Amur Railway, an alternative route to the original route of the Trans-Siberian Railway through Manchuria , under the name Pjora ( Пёра , after the river flowing here). In 1914, with the opening of the section, it was renamed Gondatti in honor of the then (1911–1917) Governor of the Amur Oblast and ethnographer Nikolai Gondatti (1861–1945). In 1920 the station was renamed Shimanovskaya , the settlement itself in Wladimiro-Shimanovsky ( Владимиро--имановский ), after the railway engineer, first director of the Amur railway and "red" participant in the civil war, Vladimir Shimanovsky (1882-1918), who was shot in the Oblast capital. On August 21, 1950, the place was given city rights under its current name. The city experienced an economic boom during the construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline in the 1970s as the center of the construction industry.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	13,510
1959	17,891
1970	16,880
1979	25,586
1989	26,274
2002	22,267
2010	19,815

Note: census data

Culture and sights

Shimanovsk has had a local museum dedicated to the history of the city since 1969.

economy

In Shimanovsk there are companies in the construction industry, mechanical engineering ( Кранспецбурмаш / Kranspezburmasch - special cranes and drilling equipment) and the food industry.

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)

Web links

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