Shira (place)

settlement Shira ира Federal district Siberia republic Khakassia Rajon Shira Founded 1914 Settlement since 2009 population 9448 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 470  m Time zone UTC + 7 Telephone code (+7) 39035 Post Code 655200 License Plate 19th OKATO 95 235 551 Website www.shiranet.ru Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 29 '  N , 89 ° 58'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 29 '28 "  N , 89 ° 57' 35"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Khakassia

Shira ( Russian Шира ) is a settlement (possjolok) in the southern Siberian Khakassia ( Russia ) with 9448 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010). It is the administrative seat of the Rajon of the same name and was originally founded in 1914 as a station on the Achinsk  - Abakan railway line . From 1957 to 2009 Shira had urban-type settlement status .

The largest lakes in Khakassia, Lake Beljo and Lake Shira, are located in the vicinity of Schira .

Population development

year	Residents
1939	4,717
1959	10,889
1970	10.100
1979	10,211
1989	10,701
2002	9,496
2010	9,448

Note: census data

literature

• A. Gorkin and others: Geografija Rossii: Enziklopeditscheski slowar . Bolschaja Rossijskaja enziklopedija, Moscow 1997, ISBN 5-85270-276-5 , p. 674. (Russian)
• Alexei Akulow among others: Khakassija. Putewoditel. Awangard, Moscow 2006, ISBN 978-5-86394-202-5 , p. 113. (Russian)

Web links

• Shira (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)