Verkhozhiche
Urban-type settlement
Werchoschischemje
Верхошижемье
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Verkhoschischemje ( Russian Верхоши́жемье ) is an urban-type settlement in the Kirov Oblast in Russia with 4,357 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The village is located approximately 75 km crow flies south-southwest of Oblastverwaltungszentrums Kirov and is located on the upper reaches of the left Vyatka -Nebenflusses Schischma .
Verkhoschischemje is the administrative center of the Verkhoshishemsky Rajons and the seat of the municipality of Verkhoschischemskoje gorodskoje posselenije. In addition to the settlement, the municipality includes the ten villages Babitschi, Bolschije Kuliki, Bolschije Medjanzy, Issupowy, Kazan, Loguschiny, Morosy, Moskva, Popovschtschina and Verkholipowo, which are mostly located in a south-westerly direction up to 20 km away.
history
The place was founded in 1678 by the Archijerei (bishop) of the Chlynower Tryphon monastery on the trade route from Jaransk to Chlynow (later Vyatka and today's Kirov). The name refers to the location on the upper Schischma (Russian werchnjaja Schischma ). As a result he belonged to the Ujesd Vyatka of the Vyatka Governorate .
On June 8, 1929, Verkhoschischemje was the administrative seat of a newly created Rajons named after him. In 1969 the place received the status of an urban-type settlement.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1939 | 1832 |
1970 | 3285 |
1979 | 4502 |
1989 | 5037 |
2002 | 4519 |
2010 | 4357 |
Note: census data
traffic
Verkhoschischemja is bypassed to the east by regional road 33R-008, which, coming from Kirov, continues via Sovetsk to Yaransk. The nearest train station is in Oritschi, about 50 km to the north, on the main line of the Trans-Siberian Railway .
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)