Wochma (place)

settlement Wochma Вохма Federal district Central Russia Oblast Kostroma Rajon Wochomski head Alexei Antonov Earlier names Vosnessenje Vosnesenskoje Settlement since 1992 population 4,386 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 150  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 49450 Post Code 157760 License Plate 44 OKATO 34 206 810 001 Website vohma-adm.ru Geographical location Coordinates 58 ° 56 '  N , 46 ° 45'  E Coordinates: 58 ° 55 '45 "  N , 46 ° 45' 30"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kostroma Oblast

Wochma ( Russian Во́хма ) is a settlement (possjolok) in the Kostroma Oblast in Russia with 4386 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 360 km as the crow flies east-northeast of the Kostroma Oblast Administrative Center . It is located a good 4 km from the right bank of the river Wochma , which gives it its name , into which the small Wotschka flowing through the village empties about 7 km to the southeast.

Wochma is the administrative center of the Rajons Wochomski and seat of the rural community Wochomskoje selskoje posselenije, (km 3 west) which also includes the villages Schabaschicha and Schtschipizyno (1 km to the west, both without permanent residents) and settlements (possjolok) Bereschok (4 km east-northeast, on right Wochma bank) and Mayak (6 km east, on the left Wochma bank) belong.

history

The place arose around the end of the 17th century at the crossroads of old regional trade routes. At first it was called Vosnessenje, later also in the form Vosnesenskoje, after the name of the local church, in Russian for Ascension Day . From 1780 he belonged to the Ujesd Nikolsk of the Vologda governorate, from 1796 to the Vologda governorate , and was the seat of a Volost there in the 19th century .

At the latest on April 10, 1924, when the place became the administrative seat of a Rajon of the Northern Dvina Governorate (Severo-Dvinskaya gubernija) , which existed from 1918 to 1929 , the name was changed to Wochma , after the nearby river.

On June 2, 1928, the young teacher Nikolai Reinholdowitsch Schmidt (1906–1942), an enthusiastic radio amateur , received an SOS call from Umberto Nobiles' Italia North Pole expedition in Wochma . He reported his observation to Moscow, whereupon an international rescue operation began, which was later discussed in the radio play SOS… rao rao… Foyn .

After the village of Wochma with the Rajon belonged to the Northern Krai from 1929 to 1936 , to the short-lived Northern Oblast until 1937 and then to the Vologda Oblast , it was transferred to the newly formed Kostroma Oblast on August 13, 1944.

From 1964, Wochma was an urban-type settlement , but lost this status again in 1992 and has been a rural settlement ever since.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	3013
1959	3422
1970	4060
1979	4339
1989	4953
2002	4785
2010	4386

Note: census data

traffic

Wochma is located on the regional road 34N-11, which begins at the western district center of Pyschtschug on the Uren  - Sharja  - Nikolsk - Kotlas connection known as 34R-10 on the territory of the oblast , crosses the northwestern neighboring Pavino and continues to the eastern neighboring Bogowarowo . The nearest train station is Shabalino a good 70 km south, already in the Kirov Oblast near the Leninskoje settlement , on the main line (from Moscow via Yaroslavl to Kotelnitsch ) of the Trans-Siberian Railway .

There is a small airfield on the southwestern edge of the village, which has sporadic connections to the oblast center (as of 2014).

Web links

• Official website of the municipal administration (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)