Taiga (city)

city Taiga Тайга coat of arms Federal district Siberia Oblast Kemerovo Urban district taiga Founded 1898 City since 1925 surface 49  km² population 25,331 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 517 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 250  m Time zone UTC + 7 Telephone code (+7) 38448 Post Code 652400, 652401 License Plate 42, 142 OKATO 32 440 Geographical location Coordinates 56 ° 4 '  N , 85 ° 37'  E Coordinates: 56 ° 4 '0 "  N , 85 ° 37' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Kemerovo Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Taiga ( Russian Тайга ) is a city in Kemerovo Oblast ( Russia ) with 25,331 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

Taiga train station

The city is located in the north of the oblast, about 100 km north of its capital Kemerovo . The climate is continental.

The city of Taiga is administratively directly subordinate to the Oblast. Five villages with a total of 2,611 inhabitants are subordinate to the city, so that the total number of inhabitants in the administrative unit “City of Taiga” is 27,491 (2009 calculation).

Taiga is a station on the Trans-Siberian Railway, which opened on this section in January 1898 (route km 3565 from Moscow ). The branch line to Tomsk , which was opened at the same time, branches off here (later extended: 1937 to Assino , 1973 to Bely Jar ).

history

Taiga emerged from the end of the 19th century in connection with the construction and operation of the Trans-Siberian Railway (1898 is considered the year of foundation). In 1925 the place received city rights.

Population development

year	Residents
1926	10,900
1939	29,110
1959	33,860
1970	26,895
1979	25,248
1989	26,233
2002	24,726
2010	25,331

Note: census data (1926 rounded)

Culture, education and sights

There is a Municipal History Museum in Taiga.

There is a branch of the Omsk State Transport University (Омская государственная академия путей сообщения).

economy

In addition to the railway workshops, there are companies in the building materials, light and food industries.

sons and daughters of the town

• Inna Makarowa (1926-2020), actress

See also

• List of cities in Kemerovo Oblast

Web links

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

• Taiga on mojgorod.ru (Russian)

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)