Izhmorsky District (russian: Ижмо́рский райо́н) is an administrative district (
raion
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), one of the
nineteen in
Kemerovo Oblast
Kemerovo Oblast — Kuzbass (russian: Ке́меровская о́бласть — Кузба́сс, translit=Kemerovskaya oblast — Kuzbass, ), also known simply as Kemerovo Oblast (russian: Ке́меровская о́бласть, label=non ...
,
Russia
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.
[Law #215-OZ] As a
municipal division, it is incorporated as Izhmorsky Municipal District.
[Law #104-OZ] It is located in the north of the
oblast
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. The area of the district is .
Its
administrative center
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is the
urban locality (an
urban-type settlement
Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...
) of
Izhmorsky.
Population: 16,476 (
2002 Census);
The population of the administrative center accounts for 41.5% of the district's total population.
Geography
Izhmorsky District lies on the northern edge of the
Kuznetsk Depression
Kuznetsk Depression (russian: Кузнецкая котловина, ''Kuznetskaya kotlovina'') is located among mountains of South-Central Siberia, including: Kuznetsk Alatau to the Northeast, Salair Ridge to the Southwest, and Mountainous Shoria ...
, which is the basin of the
Tom River
The Tom ( rus, Томь, p=tomʲ, cjs, Том) is a river in Russia, a right tributary of the Ob in Central Siberia. Its watershed lies within the Republic of Khakassia, Kemerovo Oblast, and Tomsk Oblast.[Salair Ridge
Salair Ridge (pronounced ''sah-lah-EER''; russian: Салаирский кряж) is an eroded plateau-type highland in the Southwestern Siberia, Russia, particularly in Altai Krai, Kemerovo and Novosibirsk Oblast. It is a natural continuation of A ...]
to the west, and the
Kuznetsk Alatau
Kuznetsk Alatau (russian: Кузнецкий Алатау) is a mountain range in southern Siberia, Russia. The range rises in the Altai-Sayan region of the South Siberian Mountains, northwest of Mongolia. The Siberian Railway skirts the norther ...
mountains to the southeast. The southern portion of the district lies on the northern end of the
Kuznetsk Basin
The Kuznetsk Basin (russian: Кузнецкий угольный бассейн, Кузбасс; often abbreviated as Kuzbass or Kuzbas) in southwestern Siberia, Russia, is one of the largest coal mining areas in Russia, covering an area of aroun ...
(the "Kuzbass" coal region).
The district occupies the raised watershed between two river floodplains - the
Yaya River which runs south-to-north along the western border of the Izhmorsky District, and the
Kiya River
The Kiya (russian: Ки́я) is a river in Tomsk and Kemerovo Oblasts of Russia. It is a left tributary of the Chulym (in the Ob's drainage basin), and is long, with a drainage basin of . The river has its sources in the Kuznetsk Alatau and flow ...
which runs south-to-north about 20 km to the east. The terrain is rolling hills or flat wetlands. Vegetation is mostly forest and forest-steppe, with pine forests and taiga of spruce, fir, cedar and larch in the south and east. The forested areas in the north are more aspen-birch in character.
The district is about 100 km north-to-south, and 50 km west-to-east. The administrative center town of
Izhmorsky is on the western border in the center, about 80 km northeast of the regional city of
Kemerovo
Kemerovo ( rus, Ке́мерово, p=ˈkʲemʲɪrəvə) is an industrial city and the administrative center of Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Iskitimka and Tom Rivers, in the major coal mining region of the Kuznetsk Ba ...
. The
Trans-Siberian railroad
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runs across the south of the district, as does the
R255 "Novosibirsk - Krasnoyarsk" highway. Subdivisions of the district include 1 urban and 6 rural settlements.
The climate of the district is
humid continental (Koppen ''Dfb'').
History
Small villages were originally colonized in the 1700s along the Moscow-Irkutsk trail. In 1893, the village of Izhmorsky was established when the
Trans-Siberian Railroad
The Trans-Siberian Railway (TSR; , , ) connects European Russia to the Russian Far East. Spanning a length of over , it is the longest railway line in the world. It runs from the city of Moscow in the west to the city of Vladivostok in the eas ...
was built through the area. The name of the area was brought y settlers from the Izhmorskoy parish of the Penza region. Until 1924, the area was a part of
Mariinsky District
Mariinsky District (russian: Марии́нский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the nineteen in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia.Law #215-OZ As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Mariinsky Municipal District.Law #1 ...
to the east.
References
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External links
Izhmorsky District on OpenStreetMap.org
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Districts of Kemerovo Oblast