Shimsk
Urban-type settlement
Shimsk
Шимск
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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.
Rajon polyclinic
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 |
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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
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)