Verkhozhiche

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Urban-type settlement
Werchoschischemje
Верхошижемье
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Federal district Volga
Oblast Kirov
Rajon Verkhozhishemsky
Founded 1678
Urban-type settlement since 1969
population 4357 inhabitants
(as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Height of the center 190  m
Time zone UTC + 3
Telephone code (+7) 83335
Post Code 613310
License Plate 43
OKATO 33 208 551
Geographical location
Coordinates 58 ° 1 '  N , 49 ° 6'  E Coordinates: 58 ° 0 '45 "  N , 49 ° 6' 15"  E
Verkhozhishye (European Russia)
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Location in the western part of Russia
Verkhozhishye (Kirov Oblast)
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Location in Kirov Oblast

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
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

  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)