Tim (Kursk)
Urban-type settlement
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Tim ( Russian Тим ) is an urban-type settlement and a former city in Kursk Oblast in Russia with 3186 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The place is about 70 km as the crow flies east-southeast of the Kursk Oblast Administrative Center . It is located on the upper reaches of the Tim River of the same name , a right tributary of the Bystraja Sosna .
Tim is the administrative center of Timsky Rajon and the seat and only locality of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Possjolok Tim.
history
The place was founded in the 16th century at the earliest on the trade route between the Crimea and central Russia (Murawski schljach) . In 1779 the place received city rights as the administrative seat of a Ujesd of the Kursk governorship. When it was converted into a governorate in 1797, the Ujesd was dissolved, but was restored in 1802. On May 12, 1924, the Ujesd was finally dissolved, Tim lost the town charter and was henceforth again a village (selo).
On July 30, 1928, Tim was again the administrative seat, now a Rajons named after him. Since 1938 the place has had the status of an urban-type settlement.
During the Second World War , Tim was captured by the German Wehrmacht on November 20, 1941 and initially recaptured by the Red Army on December 25, 1941 . During their advance on Voronezh, the Wehrmacht was able to take the settlement again at the end of June 1942, until it was finally liberated on February 4, 1943.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1897 | 7377 |
1939 | 2161 |
1959 | 2166 |
1970 | 2950 |
1979 | 3658 |
1989 | 4104 |
2002 | 3758 |
2010 | 3186 |
Note: census data
traffic
The federal trunk road R298 Kursk - Voronezh - Borisoglebsk , part of the European route 38, runs about three kilometers north of Tim . There the regional road 38K-021 branches off and leads past the settlement to the south, east of the neighboring Rajonzentrum Manturowo to the border of the Belgorod Oblast , from there towards Stary Oskol . From Tim north the 38K-033 runs to Shchigry . The nearest train station on the Kursk - Voronezh route is about 30 km away.
Web links
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)