Smidovich

Urban-type settlement Smidovich Смидович Federal district far East region Jewish Autonomous Oblast Rajon Smidovich head Maxim Shabunya Founded 1913 Earlier names In (1913-1934) Urban-type settlement since 1934 population 5120 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 50  m Time zone UTC + 10 Telephone code (+7) 42632 Post Code 679150 License Plate 79 OKATO 99 230 551 Geographical location Coordinates 48 ° 36 '  N , 133 ° 48'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 35 '45 "  N , 133 ° 48' 15"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast

Smidowitsch ( Russian Смидо́вич ) is an urban-type settlement in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast ( Russia ) with 5120 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is in the Amur lowlands about 70 kilometers as the crow flies east-southeast of the Oblast administrative center Birobidzhan and about 100 kilometers west of the city ​​of Khabarovsk . A few kilometers to the north flows the Great In (Bolshoi In), a right tributary of the Tunguska source river Urmi .

The settlement is the administrative center of the Smidowitsch Rajon of the same name .

history

The place was created in 1913 in connection with the construction of the Amur railway from Kuenga to Khabarovsk, the last section of the Trans-Siberian Railway on the territory of the Russian Empire , when the construction of a station named after the nearby river In began. The section went into regular operation in 1916.

With the establishment of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in 1928, the station settlement In became one of the first points of Jewish settlement in the area. In 1934 the place received the status of an urban-type settlement and was named after the Soviet state and party functionary Pyotr Smidowitsch (1874-1935), among other things a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Central Control Commission of the CPSU and one of the originators of the idea of ​​Jewish autonomy in the Far East of Russia.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	8074
1959	9008
1970	7357
1979	6947
1989	6646
2002	5905
2010	5120

Note: census data

Economy and Infrastructure

The settlement is the center of an agricultural area with the cultivation of grain, potatoes and vegetables as well as cattle and pig farming. A vehicle equipment plant that was located in Smidowitsch until the 1990s is out of order.

In Smidowitsch is the important station In the Trans-Siberian Railway (route km 8422 from Moscow ). To the north, the M 58 Amur road from Chita to Khabarovsk bypasses the settlement , part of the transcontinental road connection.

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)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Smidowitsch on the website of the Geographical Institute of the RAN (Russian)

Web links

• Smidovich Municipality on the Oblast Administration website (Russian)