Tymovskoye

Tymovskoye (in English)
Тымовское (Russian)
-  Urban-type settlement[1]  -

Location of Sakhalin Oblast in Russia
Tymovskoye
Location of Tymovskoye in Sakhalin Oblast
Coordinates: 50°51′01″N 142°39′36″E / 50.85028°N 142.66000°E / 50.85028; 142.66000Coordinates: 50°51′01″N 142°39′36″E / 50.85028°N 142.66000°E / 50.85028; 142.66000
Administrative status (as of December 2011)
Country Russia
Federal subject Sakhalin Oblast[1]
Administrative district Tymovsky District[1]
Administrative center of Tymovsky District[1]
Municipal status (as of July 2012)
Urban okrug Tymovsky Urban Okrug[2]
Administrative center of Tymovsky Urban Okrug[2]
Statistics
Population (2010 Census) 7,855 inhabitants[3]
Time zone MAGT (UTC+11:00)[4]
Founded 1880
Urban-type settlement status since 1963
Previous names Derbinskoye (until November 15, 1949)[5]
Dialing code(s) +7 42447[6]
Tymovskoye on Wikimedia Commons

Tymovskoye (Russian: Ты́мовское) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Tymovsky District of Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, located in the central part of the Sakhalin Island on the right bank of the Tym River, about 450 kilometers (280 mi) north of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Population: 7,855(2010 Census);[3] 8,532(2002 Census);[7] 10,869(1989 Census).[8]

History

It was founded in 1880 by Anton Derbin as Derbinskoye, as a place of exile for prisoners in the Russian Empire. The writer Anton Chekhov visited Derbinskoye in 1890 during his travel through Sakhalin and described it in his book, Sakhalin Island. During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, the area around Derbinskoye was occupied by Japanese troops, and then again after the October Revolution of 1917. The Bolsheviks did not regain control over northern Sakhalin until May 1925.

Derbinskoye became the administrative center of Rykovsky District in 1928. The settlement was given its present name of November 15, 1949.[5]

Under Joseph Stalin, Tymovskoye was home to a prison camp of the gulag system. In 1950-1953, this particular camp was the base for forced labor used in the construction of a railway connecting the planned tunnel between Sakhalin and the Russian mainland with the existing Sakhalin rail network.[9]

In 1963, Tymovskoye was granted urban-type settlement status.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Tymovskoye serves as the administrative center of Tymovsky District and is subordinated to it.[1] As a municipal division, the urban-type settlement of Tymovskoye and twenty-four rural localities of Tymovsky District are incorporated as Tymovsky Urban Okrug.[2]

Economy

The main industries in the town today are timber production and food processing.

Transportation

The settlement is served by the narrow gauge Sakhalin Railway, with a station (named Tymovsk) on the line leading north towards Nogliki. Construction of the rail line reached Tymovskoye in the 1970s. The largest locomotive depot for the northern section of the rail line is located here.

The R487 road from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk to Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky via Poronaysk also passes through Tymovskoye. The road to Nogliki and Okha on the east coast of the island also branches here, following the Tym downstream.

Notable people

References

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Law #25-ZO
  2. 1 2 3 Law #524
  3. 1 2 Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). "Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1" [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года (2010 All-Russia Population Census) (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved June 29, 2012.
  4. Правительство Российской Федерации. Федеральный закон №107-ФЗ от 3 июня 2011 г. «Об исчислении времени», в ред. Федерального закона №271-ФЗ от 03 июля 2016 г. «О внесении изменений в Федеральный закон "Об исчислении времени"». Вступил в силу по истечении шестидесяти дней после дня официального опубликования (6 августа 2011 г.). Опубликован: "Российская газета", №120, 6 июня 2011 г. (Government of the Russian Federation. Federal Law #107-FZ of June 31, 2011 On Calculating Time, as amended by the Federal Law #271-FZ of July 03, 2016 On Amending Federal Law "On Calculating Time". Effective as of after sixty days following the day of the official publication.).
  5. 1 2 S. Gorbunov: The Tym-Valley: Steps of History - Article on the website of the local history museum of Poronaysk (Russian, PDF)
  6. Телефонные коды Сахалина - Dialing codes of Sakhalin (in Russian)
  7. Russian Federal State Statistics Service (May 21, 2004). "Численность населения России, субъектов Российской Федерации в составе федеральных округов, районов, городских поселений, сельских населённых пунктов – районных центров и сельских населённых пунктов с населением 3 тысячи и более человек" [Population of Russia, Its Federal Districts, Federal Subjects, Districts, Urban Localities, Rural Localities—Administrative Centers, and Rural Localities with Population of Over 3,000] (XLS). Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года [All-Russia Population Census of 2002] (in Russian). Retrieved August 9, 2014.
  8. Demoscope Weekly (1989). "Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность наличного населения союзных и автономных республик, автономных областей и округов, краёв, областей, районов, городских поселений и сёл-райцентров" [All Union Population Census of 1989: Present Population of Union and Autonomous Republics, Autonomous Oblasts and Okrugs, Krais, Oblasts, Districts, Urban Settlements, and Villages Serving as District Administrative Centers]. Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 года [All-Union Population Census of 1989] (in Russian). Институт демографии Национального исследовательского университета: Высшая школа экономики [Institute of Demography at the National Research University: Higher School of Economics]. Retrieved August 9, 2014.

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