Sim (city)

city Sim Сим coat of arms Federal district Ural Oblast Chelyabinsk Rajon Ashinsky Founded 1759 Earlier names Simsky Zavod City since 1942 surface 33  km² population 14,466 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 438 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 200  m Time zone UTC + 5 Telephone code (+7) 35159 Post Code 456020, 456021 License Plate 74, 174 OKATO 75 209 505 Website www.gorodsim.ru Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 59 ′  N , 57 ° 41 ′  E Coordinates: 54 ° 59 ′ 0 ″  N , 57 ° 41 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Chelyabinsk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Sim ( Russian Сим ) is a small town in Chelyabinsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 14,466 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located on the western flank of the Southern Urals about 340 km west of the Oblast capital Chelyabinsk on the Sim , a right tributary of the Belaya, which flows into the Kama .

Sim belongs to Rajon Aschinski and is located approximately 25 kilometers east of the county seat Ascha .

The city is located on the southern route of the Trans-Siberian Railway Moscow - Samara - Chelyabinsk - Omsk ( Simskaja station ; route kilometers 1759 from Moscow) and the M5 Moscow - Chelyabinsk highway .

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City panorama

history

Simskaya railway station (early color photo by Prokudin-Gorski , 1910)

Sim was created in 1759 in connection with the construction of the Simsky Zavod ironworks . During the Pugachev uprising in 1773–75, the plant was destroyed, but reopened in 1778. On November 13, 1942, the place received city rights under its current name.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	7,858
1959	13,897
1970	18,929
1979	21,329
1989	20.164
2002	16,377
2010	14,466

Note: census data

Culture and sights

Sim owns a small history museum .

economy

There is a machine factory in Sim ( Agregat AG ).

sons and daughters of the town

• Igor Kurchatov (1903–1960), nuclear physicist

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

Commons : Sim  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality (Russian)
• Sim on mojgorod.ru (Russian)