Siwaki

Federal district	far East
Oblast	Amur
Rajon	Magdagachi
Founded	1905
Urban-type settlement since	1938
population	2056 inhabitants ; (as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Height of the center	330 m
Time zone	UTC + 9
Telephone code	(+7) 41653
Post Code	676145
License Plate	28
OKATO	10 231 560
Geographical location
Coordinates	52 ° 38 ′ N , 126 ° 45 ′ E Coordinates: 52 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ N , 126 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ E
	Situation in Russia
	Location in Amur Oblast

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
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)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.zabzd.rzd.ru

↑ Siwaki in the narrow-gauge railway encyclopedia on parovoz.com (Russian)

[einwohner_aktuell-1] 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)

[zbzd-2] 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)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.zabzd.rzd.ru

[3] Siwaki in the narrow-gauge railway encyclopedia on parovoz.com (Russian)


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