Tymovskoye

Tymowskoje (Russian Тымовское ) is an urban-type settlement in Sakhalin Oblast (Russia) with 7855 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The settlement is located in the central part of the island of Sakhalin in the valley of the river Tym on its right bank. The valley separates the western part of the Sachalingebirges from the eastern, where some 30 kilometers east of Tymowskoje the Lopatin - Berg, with 1608 meters the highest peak on the island of Sakhalin (named after the mining engineer Innokenty Lopatin, who in 1868 as one of the first Russians to the field explored ).

Tymowskoje since 1965 administrative center of the newly created after several changes, the same Rajons Tymowskoje. The place is around 450 km ( straight line ) north of the Oblasthauptstadt Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

History

In connection with the use of Sakhalin by the Russian Empire as a prison and Verbannungsinsel originated in 1877 or 1878 near the town of today's settlements Malo- Tymowo and Bolschoye Tymowo. The latter was soon in honor of the founder, Sergeant Yakov Rykov the name Rykowskoje and grew fast, had in 1886 already 2000 inhabitants and remained responsible for their resolution of the three centers of the Sakhalin penal servitude and the North East part of the island (near Alexandrovsk in the west and Korsakov in the south). The 15 km south of Tymowskoje situated village called Kirowskoje today.

Another village for exiles was on July 5, 1880 downriver from Anton Derbin founded, which was given the name Derbinskoje after this. 1890 visited the writer Anton Chekhov on Sakhalin his travel the village and described it in his book The Island of Sakhalin.

In 1928, the administrative center of the Rajons Rykowskoje was moved to Derbinskoje. On November 15, 1949, the town got its present name.

1963 the location of the status of an urban-type settlement was awarded.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Personalities

• Ivan Juwatschow (1860-1940), naval officer, Narodowolze and writer ( " Eight years on Sakhalin " under the pseudonym Miroljubow ), father of the writer Daniil Kharms; serving a converted into forced labor death penalty in the Rykowsker Katorga
• Bronisław Piłsudski (1866-1918), Polish anthropologist, was serving a portion of the sentence of 15 years hard labor for the planned assassination of Tsar Alexander III. in Rykowskoje; was then still working for several years on behalf of the Russian Academy of Sciences on Sakhalin as ethnologist

Economy and infrastructure

In Tymowskoje there are establishments of forestry and the food industry.

The settlement is situated on the main route leading to the Nogliki of the narrow-gauge railway network ( Cape gauge 1067 mm) of the Sakhalin Island ( 539 km distance from Korsakov on Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk; station name Tymowsk ). Tymowskoje reached during Streckenbau the north in the 1970s. Here is the largest locomotive depot in the northern section of the route.

Through the village leads the regional road R487 from Yuzhno -Sakhalinsk on Poronaisk after Alexandrovsk - Sachalinski, from here a road down the Tym and branches along the railway line to Nogliki on the east coast of the island and on to Ocha.