Narym

Narym (Russian Нарым ) is a village in the Tomsk Oblast (Russia). It has 947 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ) and is one of the oldest Russian towns in Siberia.

Geography

The village is located in the West Siberian Plain, about 330 km as the crow northwest of the Oblastverwaltungszentrums Tomsk on a right arm of the Ob ( Besymjannaja Protoka, " Nameless arm "). A little above the village joins the chain with its right tributary Kopylowskaja chain in the Ob.

Narym belongs to Rajon Parabelski and is situated on 25 km north of the administrative center of the parabola. In the village is the administrative seat of the rural community Narymskoje selskoje posselenije to the next Narym the villages Alatajewo (50 inhabitants, 14 km upstream of the Kopylowskaja chain beyond the confluence of the Paidugina ) and Lugowskoje ( 165 inhabitants; 4 km upstream ), are also the settlements Talinowka (136 inhabitants; 6 km downstream of the right Whether arm ) and Schpalosawod (808 inhabitants, just beyond the Ob - arm to Narym and then at the main branch of the stream ). The total population of the municipality is thus 2106 (14 October 2010).

History

Narym one of the oldest of Russian Cossacks during their expansion into Siberia founded settlements beyond the Urals. After the founding of Surgut in 1594 located Ostrog Narym 1596 of more than 500 km upstream was the first place on the territory of present-day Oblast Tomsk ( Tomsk itself originated 1604). The name was probably derived from Narym selkupischen word for swamp.

1601 was Narym " city " as an administrative center of a Ujesds same name. 1619 and 1632, the Ostrog was moved, but the situation remained very flat right here at Ob- shore, including today's unfavorable: the place has often subject to flooding. Several times he was also plagued by large fires. 1785 a city charter was renewed and Narym received a coat of arms as the city of Tobolsk government. In 1822 it came to the province of Tomsk, lost its administrative function, but remains formally town.

Narym played a certain role in the fur trade, to the great trade fairs to Irbit and Makarjew, later Nizhny Novgorod went from here. Also in Narym found an annual " fair " instead, but had mainly regional importance. The population of the town has always remained low and decreased as well as its economic importance to the turn of the 20th century, finally, after the Trans-Siberian Railway was built hundreds of kilometers to the south. 1925 Narym lost its city charter.

Exile

Narym was known primarily as a political exile, especially from the beginning of the 19th century. In the " Narymer exile " ( Narymskaja ssylka ) were Decembrists ( including Nikolai Mosgalewski and Pawel Dunzow - Wygodowski ), sent participants of the Polish uprisings, Populists and finally Social Democrats. From this time the winged word God comes created the Crimea and the devil Narym ( Бог создал Крым, а чёрт - Нарым ).

Even in Soviet times was Narym exile; by Narymer exile - but this referred not only to the village itself, but the huge Okrug same name, which occupied the north-western part of today's Tomsk Oblast - possibly hundreds of thousands went. Among them was, for example, the 1927-1929 as a "Trotskyist " condemned lettischstämmige high industrialist and director of the Moscow Institute of Economics Ivar ( Ivar ) Smilga.

Demographics

Note: 1897 from 2002 census data

Culture and sights

The place has retained the character of an almost exclusively of wooden buildings in the Siberian village.

Economy and infrastructure

The main industry was long forestry; many residents were also in the neighboring settlement Schpalosawod (literally " sleeper factory " ) worked in a factory for the production of wooden railway sleepers. Also because of the unfavorable transport connections, the factories were closed down during the economic crisis of the 1990s.

Unpaved roads, there is only one of the neighboring villages. A year-round navigable link to the Russian road network is absent; in winter the ice can be driven on the Ob. In the ice-free season is on the river and a passenger boat service.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Vadim Kozhevnikov (1909-1984), writer