Zima (town)

Sima (Russian Зима; scientific transliteration Zima ) is a Russian city with 32,508 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ). in the Irkutsk Oblast, Siberia.

Geography

Sima is located about 220 km north- west of the regional capital Irkutsk on the Siberian Oka, near the mouth of the eponymous river Sima in this. In Sima the Trans-Siberian Railway bridge at kilometer 4943, the Oka. In addition, Sima is on the Russian highway M 53, which is part of the transcontinental road connection from Moscow to Vladivostok.

The nearest town is Sajansk, about 20 km north of Sima away.

History

Sima was created in 1743 as a small village, just by connecting to the Trans-Siberian Railway in 1898, the settlement began to grow, since the beginning of the 20th century Sima is a center of the wood processing industry as well as base of logging operations in the area. 1922 Sima was awarded city rights. Sima had between 1960 and 1990 an approximately constant population by 40,000, but declined after the collapse of the Soviet Union by 15 % to less than 35,000.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Personalities

  • Yevgeny Yevtushenko ( born 1933), poet and writer
  • Nikolai Ljaschtschenko (1910-2000), Hero of the Soviet Union
  • Tatjana Matwejewa (* 1985), Women's Weightlifting
  • Svetlana Podobedowa (* 1986), Women's Weightlifting
  • Alexander Zeid (1886-1938), pioneer and hero of the Jewish workers' and national movement in Palestine
Vehicle registration plates of Russia OKATO Oka River (Siberia) M53 highway (Russia) Sayansk Administrative divisions of Irkutsk Oblast Bratsk Tulun Ust-Ilimsk Raion Alzamay Angarsk Baykalsk Biryusinsk Bodaybo Kirensk Nizhneudinsk Shelekhov Zheleznogorsk-Ilimsky Slyudyanka, Slyudyansky District, Irkutsk Oblast Tayshet Ust-Kut Ust-Ordynsky
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