Siwaki
Urban-type settlement
Siwaki
Сиваки
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Siwaki ( Russian Сиваки ) is an urban-type settlement in the Amur Oblast ( Russia ) with 2056 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The settlement is located between Amur and Zeya extending low mountain range in the Russian Far East , which gradually here to southeast, Seja-Bureya level expires. The place is located about 270 kilometers (as the crow flies) north of the Oblast capital Blagoveschensk .
Siwaki belongs to Rajon Magdagachi whose administrative center Magdagachi located 135 km north-west.
history
The place emerged from 1905 when a resettler from central Russia with the surname Siwak began to build a village here. In 1913 a station was built here on the newly built Amur railway from Kuenga not far from Sretensk in Transbaikalia to Khabarovsk .
In 1938 urban-type settlement status was given.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1939 | 8155 |
1959 | 6158 |
1970 | 4943 |
1979 | 4044 |
1989 | 3721 |
2002 | 2578 |
2010 | 2056 |
Note: census data
Economy and Infrastructure
There are forestry companies in Siwaki. From the end of the 1930s, there was a narrow-gauge network ( gauge 750 mm) in the forest area east of the village for the removal of wood with a length of around 60 to 85 kilometers, which existed until the 1970s.
Siwaki is a station of the Trans-Siberian Railway (route km 7626 from Moscow ). The M58 Amur road, part of the trans-Siberian road link , also passes nearby.
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)
- ↑ a b Handbook of the Transbaikal Railway ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the railway administration (Russian)
- ↑ Siwaki in the narrow-gauge railway encyclopedia on parovoz.com (Russian)