Uschumun

Urban-type settlement Ushumun Ушумун Federal district far East Oblast Amur Rajon Magdagachi Founded 1910 Urban-type settlement since 1938 population 2390 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 325  m Time zone UTC + 9 Telephone code (+7) 41653 Post Code 676135 License Plate 28 OKATO 10 231 570 Geographical location Coordinates 52 ° 47 '  N , 126 ° 32'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 47 '0 "  N , 126 ° 32' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Amur Oblast

Uschumun ( Russian Ушумун ) is an urban-type settlement in the Amur Oblast ( Russia ) with 2390 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 290 kilometers (as the crow flies) north of the Oblast capital Blagoveschensk .

Uschumun belongs to Magdagachi Rajon , the administrative center of which Magdagachi lies 90 kilometers to the northwest.

history

Ushumun was created in connection with the construction of the Amur railway from Kuenga not far from Sretensk in Transbaikalia to Khabarovsk from 1910, when the later location at the end of a temporary railway line (exact time of the closure unknown) was chosen for the transport of construction material for the line construction, starting from the well A village 40 kilometers away with a ship landing stage on the Amur Chernyayevo.

The importance of train station and location grew with the laying of the second track on the Amur Railway; In 1938 urban-type settlement status was given.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	6792
1959	5971
1970	4189
1979	3632
1989	3232
2002	2920
2010	2390

Note: census data

Economy and Infrastructure

Uschumun has railway operations and construction companies, including a sleeper plant .

Uschumun is a station of the Trans-Siberian Railway (route km 7602 from Moscow ). The M58 Amur road, part of the trans-Siberian road link , also passes nearby.

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. ↑ 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)