Chishmy (urban-type settlement), Chishminsky District, Republic of Bashkortostan

Tschischmy (Russian Чишмы, Bashkir Шишмә / Şişmә ) is an urban-type settlement in the Republic of Bashkortostan (Russia) with 21,196 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The settlement is located in the southwestern foothills of the Ural Mountains, about 40 km ( straight line ) southwest of the capital of Republic of Ufa and a few miles from the left bank of the Djoma, a left tributary of the Belaya, removed.

Tschischmy is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons Tschischmy.

History

The town was founded in the mid-17th century by evacuees from the central Russian region of Ryazan to. The name of Tatar origin is well.

An upswing took the place with the building of the former Samara Slatouster railroad through the area, connecting Samara on the Volga River about Ufa and Chelyabinsk in the southern Urals with Zlatoust and was opened along its entire length in 1892. A few years later became the route of the Trans-Siberian Railway ( original main, today's southern route ), and also Tschischmy eastern terminus of the 1916 completed private Volga Bugulma Railroad from Simbirsk.

1930, the place was Rajonverwaltungszentrum, 1946, he was awarded the status of an urban-type settlement.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Culture and sights

In the vicinity of Tschischmy there are several monuments of early Islamic history of Bashkortostan, as the mausoleum of Hussein Bek from the late 14th century ( substantially rebuilt in 1911 ) and the so-called Turachan Palace, also from the 14th century.

Economy and infrastructure

In Tschischmy as the center of an agricultural area, there are companies in the food industry ( dairy, sugar mill, grain elevator ) and construction (factory STROIDETAL for precast concrete products industry as the largest operation of Rajons ).

The place is an important railway junction with the stations Tschischmy I and Tschischmy II Here meets the south branch of the Trans-Siberian Railway, the route Samara - Ufa - Chelyabinsk - Omsk ( double track, electrified since 1956 route kilometers in 1574 from Moscow) on the route of Insa about Ulyanovsk ( single track, eastern section was electrified in 1971 and 1472 line km from Moscow).

A few kilometers north of the village takes you past the M5 highway from Moscow to Samara and Ufa to Chelyabinsk, a connection Djoma - up branches from the here after Dawlekanowo and Rajewski.