Kizema () is a

rural locality In general, a rural area or a countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities. Typical rural areas have a low population density and small settlements. Agricultural areas and areas with forestry are typically describ ...

settlement Settlement may refer to: *Human settlement, a community where people live *Settlement (structural), downward movement of a structure's foundation *Settlement (finance), where securities are delivered against payment of money *Settlement (litigatio ...

) in

Ustyansky District Ustyansky District () is an administrative district (raion), one of the twenty-one in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia.Law #65-5-OZ As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Ustyansky Municipal District.Law #258-vneoch.-OZ It is located in the s ...

Arkhangelsk Oblast Arkhangelsk Oblast ( rus, Архангельская область, p=ɐrˈxanɡʲɪlʲskəjə ˈobɫəsʲtʲ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It includes the Arctic Ocean, Arctic archipelagos of Franz ...

, Russia, about 700 km northeast of

Moscow Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with ...

. The population was 2,968 as of 2010.Численность населения по муниципальным образованиям и населенным пунктам Архангельской области, включая Ненецкий автономный округ, итоги Всероссийской переписи населения 2010 года, Архангельскстат, 2012 There are 50 streets.

Geography

Kizema is located on the Kizema River, about 440 km southwest of the oblast capital

Arkhangelsk Arkhangelsk (, ) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. It lies on both banks of the Northern Dvina near its mouth into the White Sea. The city spreads for over along the ...

. The nearest cities are

Kotlas Kotlas () is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Northern Dvina and Vychegda Rivers. Population: Kotlas is the third-largest town of Arkhangelsk Oblast in terms of p ...

, 100 km to the west; and

Velsk Velsk () is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town and the administrative center of Velsky District in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Vel River (Arkhangelsk Oblast), Vel River at its confluence with the Vaga ...

, 100 km to the east. The land around it is very flat, and covered with forest. Being close to the Arctic, the climate here is boreal. The average temperature is -1 °C, with the warmest at 17 °C in July, and the coldest at -18 °C in January. Due to the cold climate, population density here is very small, at only about 2 people per square kilometer.

History

Kizema was named after the nearby Kizema river, which is a tributary of Utsya. Kizema is from the Sami word for summer. Kizema was established in 1942 as a railway station for Pechora railway, built by prisoners from the surrounding

Gulag The Gulag was a system of Labor camp, forced labor camps in the Soviet Union. The word ''Gulag'' originally referred only to the division of the Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies, Soviet secret police that was in charge of runnin ...

labor camps. Since 1947 there was a timber factory in the village. The Kizema settlement council was formed in 1951. In order to develop the forestry of the surrounding areas, the Kizema

Narrow-gauge railway A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge (distance between the rails) narrower than . Most narrow-gauge railways are between and . Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with tighter cur ...

was built, which runs south from Kizema. In September of 1959, the village of Kizema was transferred to the Utsyansky district of the Cherevkovsky oblast. Until 2005, Kizema was an

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Demography

The following table shows the historical population of Kizema: The municipality of Kizema include the towns of Vonzhuga and Sengoss, and has 3644 inhabitants as of 2012.

Culture

For a short time, the Russian poet and actor

Yuri Vizbor Yuri Iosifovich Vizbor (June 20, 1934September 17, 1984) was a Soviet bard and poet as well as a theatre and film actor. Vizbor was born in Moscow where he lived for most of his life. He worked as a teacher, a soldier, a sailor, a radio and pre ...

worked as a teacher here after graduation in the 1950s. Till these days Kizema has traditions dedicated to the memory of Yuri Vizbor.

Industry

Kizame is a railway station on the

Konosha Konosha () is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Konoshsky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Konosha River, south of Arkhangelsk. It also serves as the administrative center of Danilo ...

line of the Pechora Railway. The most important economic sectors of Kizema are the lumber industry and railway transport. The town has a cultural center, two schools, a kindergarten, two libraries and a hospital.

References

Rural localities in Ustyansky District {{ArkhangelskOblast-geo-stub