Shimsk

Urban-type settlement Shimsk Шимск Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Novgorod Rajon Schimski First mention 1878 Urban-type settlement since 1981 population 3895 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 20  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 81656 Post Code 174150 License Plate 53 OKATO 49 255 551 Website рпшимск.рф Geographical location Coordinates 58 ° 12 '  N , 30 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 58 ° 12 '30 "  N , 30 ° 43' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Novgorod Oblast

Schimsk ( Russian Шимск ) is an urban-type settlement in Novgorod Oblast in Russia with 3895 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 50 km as the crow flies southwest of the Veliky Novgorod Oblast Administrative Center . It is mainly located on the left bank of the Schelon a good 10 km above its confluence with the western end of Lake Ilmen .

Shimsk is the administrative center Rajons Schimski and seat of the municipality posselenije Schimskoje gorodskoje, among which also 23 surrounding villages.

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  Church of the Annunciation

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  Municipality and district administration

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  Rajon polyclinic

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  Culture house

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  Bus station

history

The place was created in 1878 in connection with the construction of the Novgorod - Staraya Russa railway a little west of the village of the same name, previously also called Schimsko and now Stary Schimsk ("Old Schimsk") and belonging to the municipality. The village was first described in detail in 1501 and was probably founded in 1420; the area was continuously populated from the 10th to the 12th centuries.

Since the 19th century, Schimsk was the administrative seat of a Volost of the Ujezds Novgorod of the governorate of the same name . On February 15, 1935, it became the seat of a newly created Rajons named after him. During the Second World War , Schimsk was occupied by the German Wehrmacht from August 11, 1941 to February 18, 1944 .

In 1981 the place received the status of an urban-type settlement.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	794
1939	899
1959	1,511
1979	3,026
1989	3,992
2002	3,842
2010	3,895

Note: census data

traffic

The federal trunk road R56 from Veliky Novgorod to Pskov runs through Schimsk . In a south-easterly direction, the regional road 49K-15 branches off via Staraya Russa south of Lake Ilmen and Cholm to the border of Pskov Oblast (further to Loknja as 58K-079).

The former railway line Veliky Novgorod - Staraya Russa, opened in 1878 as a narrow-gauge railway (gauge 1067 mm ) and converted to broad-gauge in 1916, was destroyed by Soviet partisans and the retreating German Wehrmacht and not rebuilt during World War II. Therefore, the nearest train station is now a good 30 km west of Solzy on the St. Petersburg  - Dno  - Newel  - Vitebsk route ( Belarus ).

Web links

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

• 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)