Zima (town)
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Zima (Russian: Зима) is a town in and the administrative center of Ziminsky District of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, situated on the intersection of the Trans-Siberian railway with the Oka River. Population: 34,899 (2002 Census); 41,814 (1989 Census).
The village Staraya Zima (Старая Зима) on the place of the town was established in 1743. In 1898, the Trans-Siberian railway went to the village and the railroad station Zima was established. In 1917 (or, according to other sources, in 1922), the village was granted town status.
The town is best known as the birthplace of Yevgeny Yevtushenko, a Russian poet, the author of the well known biographical poem called "Zima Station" http://vagalecs.narod.ru/ZIMAST.HTM
[edit] External links
- (Russian) Entry on Zima at Mojgorod.ru
Zima Station. Yevgeny Yevtyshenko's poem about his home town: http://vagalecs.narod.ru/ZIMAST.HTM
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