Tschischmy

Urban-type settlement Tschischmy Чишмы ( Russian ) Шишмә ( Bashkir ) Federal district Volga republic Bashkortostan Rajon Tschischmy Founded 1650 Urban-type settlement since 1946 population 21,196 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 105  m Time zone UTC + 5 Telephone code (+7) 34797 Post Code 452170-452175 License Plate 02, 102 OKATO 80 257 551 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 36 '  N , 55 ° 24'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 35 '30 "  N , 55 ° 23' 30"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Bashkortostan

List of large settlements in Russia

Tschischmy ( Russian Чишмы́ , Bashkir Шишмә / Şişmә ) is an urban-type settlement in the Republic of Bashkortostan ( Russia ) with 21,196 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is located in the southwestern foothills of the Urals , about 40 kilometers (as the crow flies) southwest of the republic capital Ufa and a few kilometers from the left bank of the Djoma , a left tributary of the Belaja .

Tschischmy is the administrative center of the Tschischmy Rajons of the same name .

history

The place was founded in the middle of the 17th century by resettlers from the central Russian area around Ryazan . The place name of Tatar origin stands for well .

The place took off with the construction of the then Samara-Slatouster Railway through the area, which connected Samara on the Volga via Ufa and Zlatoust with Chelyabinsk in the Southern Urals and was opened along its entire length in 1892. A few years later, the line became part of the Trans-Siberian Railway (originally the main, today's southern route), and Tschischmy was also the eastern terminus of the private Volga- Bugulma railway from Simbirsk, which was completed in 1916 .

In 1930 the place became a district administrative center, in 1946 it received the status of an urban-type settlement .

Population development

year	Residents
1939	2,704
1959	7,367
1970	11,870
1979	14,283
1989	18,982
2002	21.008
2010	21,196

Note: census data

Culture and sights

In the area around Tschischmy there are several monuments of the early Islamic history of Bashkortostan, such as the mausoleum of Hussein Bek from the end of the 14th century (significantly rebuilt in 1911) and the so-called Turachan Palace, also from the 14th century.

Economy and Infrastructure

In Tschischmy as the center of an agricultural area there are companies in the food industry (dairy, sugar factory, grain silo) and the construction industry ( Stroidetal plant for precast concrete as the largest industrial company in the Rajon).

The place is an important railway junction with the stations Tschischmy I and Tschischmy II . This is where the southern branch of the Trans-Siberian Railway, the Samara – Ufa – Chelyabinsk – Omsk line (double-track, electrified since 1956; line kilometers 1574 from Moscow ) meets the line from Insa via Ulyanovsk (single-track, eastern section electrified since 1971; line km 1472 from Moscow).

A few kilometers north of the settlement, the M5 trunk road runs from Moscow via Samara and Ufa to Chelyabinsk, from which a connection dyoma upwards to Dawlekanowo and Rajewski branches off.

Web links

• Chishmy Raion on the website of the Administration of the Republic of Bashkortostan (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)
2. ↑ Tschischmy on the website of the Geographical Institute of the RAN (Russian)