Shimanovsk

Schimanowsk (Russian Шимановск ) is a town in Amur Oblast (Russia) with 19 815 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located in the Russian Far East, northeast of the Amur River, about 250 km northwest of the Oblasthauptstadt Blagoveshchensk, on the right tributary of the Zeya, Bolshaya Pjora.

The city is the Schimanowsk Oblast administratively subordinated directly and as the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

Schimanowsk is located on the on this section in 1914 opened Trans-Siberian Railway ( station Schimanowskaja, 7723 route km from Moscow).

History

Schimanowsk was written in 1910 in connection with the construction of the Amurbahn, an alternative route to the original route of the Trans-Siberian Railway through Manchuria, under the name Pjora ( Пёра, after flowing river here ). 1914, with the opening of the section was renamed Gondatti was in honor of the then ( 1911-1917 ) Governor of the Amur Oblast and ethnographer Nikolai Gondatti ( 1861-1945 ). 1920, the station was renamed Schimanowskaja, the settlement itself in Wladimiro - Schimanowski ( Владимиро - Шимановский ), after the railway engineer, first director of the Amureisenbahn and "red" Civil War participant Vladimir Schimanowski ( 1882-1918 ), who was shot in the Oblasthauptstadt Blagoveshchensk. On August 21, 1950, the City received the present name of a town. An economic boom took over the city during the construction of the Baikal - Amur Mainline in the 1970s as the center of the construction industry.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Culture and sights

Schimanowsk has since 1969 a history of the city dedicated to local history museum.

Economy

In Schimanowsk companies in the construction industry, mechanical engineering ( Кранспецбурмаш / Kranspezburmasch - Special cranes and drilling rigs ), and the food industry settled.