Shumikha, Kurgan Oblast

Shumikha (Russian Шумиха ) is a city in the Kurgan Oblast (Russia) with 17,819 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located east of the Urals, in the southwest of the West Siberian Plain, about 130 km west of the Oblasthauptstadt Kurgan. The climate is continental.

The city is the administrative center of the Shumikha Rajons same name.

Shumikha is on in October 1896 opened the West Siberian original stretch of the Trans-Siberian Railway (Chelyabinsk - Omsk ) and on the highway M51, part of the transcontinental road connecting Moscow to Vladivostok, which bypasses the town to the north.

History

Shumikha originated in 1892 as a railroad construction worker settlement in the establishment of four years later opened section of the Trans -Siberian Railway. The name is derived from a particularly beyond the Ural common names for smaller watercourses (Russian шум / schum for noise). 1944 was the site of a town.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy

In Shumikha there are enterprises of mechanical engineering and the food industry. The place is the center of an agricultural region.