Sima (Irkutsk)

city Sima Зима flag coat of arms Federal district Siberia Oblast Irkutsk Urban district Sima Founded 1743 City since 1922 surface 54  km² population 32,508 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 602 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 450  m Time zone UTC + 8 Telephone code (+7) 39514 Post Code 665382-665393 License Plate 38, 85, 138 OKATO 25 420 Geographical location Coordinates 53 ° 55 '  N , 102 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 55 '0 "  N , 102 ° 3' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Irkutsk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Sima ( Russian Зима ; scientific transliteration Zima ) is a Russian city ​​with 32,508 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010). in Irkutsk Oblast , Siberia .

geography

Old station building Sima (1990)

Sima station (2016)

Sima is located about 220 km northwest of the regional capital Irkutsk on the Siberian Oka , near the confluence of the Sima river with the same name . In Sima, the Trans-Siberian Railway bridges the Oka at km 4943. In addition, Sima is up to the Russian highway M 53 , which is part of the transcontinental road link from Moscow to Vladivostok is.

The nearest town is Sayansk , around 20 km north of Sima.

history

Sima was founded in 1743 as a small village, the settlement only began to grow when it was connected to the Trans-Siberian Railway in 1898, and since the beginning of the 20th century Sima has been a center of the woodworking industry and a base for logging in the area. In 1922 Sima was granted city rights. Sima had an almost constant population of 40,000 between 1960 and 1990, but after the collapse of the Soviet Union it fell by 15% to below 35,000.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	27,556
1959	38,549
1970	41,567
1979	48.097
1989	41,814
2002	34,899
2010	32,508

Note: census data

Personalities

• Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1932–2017), poet and writer
• Nikolai Lyashchenko (1910–2000), Hero of the Soviet Union
• Tatjana Matvejewa (* 1985), weightlifter
• Svetlana Podobedowa (* 1986), weightlifter
• Alexander Zeid (1886–1938), pioneer and hero of the Jewish workers' and national movement in Palestine

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 of State Statistics of the Russian Federation); Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 g. po Irkutskoj oblasti (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010 for Irkutsk Oblast). on-line

Web links

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

• Sima on mojgorod.ru (Russian)