Shiyes railway station explained

Shiyes
Address:Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia
Coordinates:61.8961°N 49.0719°W
Opened:1940
Owned:Russian Railways
Zone:0

Shiyes railway station is a railway station in Lensky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. It is located on the section of the Northern Railway between the stations Urdoma (30 km) and Madmas (19 km), 4 km from the internal border with the Republic of Komi. It is part Urdomskoye Urban Settlement.[1]

Settlement

About 300 meter the station there was a logging settlement with the same name.[2] In 1945 two residential barracks appeared, a small dining room and a shop. Construction was continuous, the village gradually grew. In 1951–1955, an elementary school and 54 panel houses were constructed. A store, a new canteen, a bakery, a kindergarten, a pigsty were also built. Later on production facilities rose: a power station, a garage with steam heating, a tare shop, a mechanized bottom warehouse, a groove. The doors of a seven-year school and nursery, a club and a large store, four new apartment houses opened hospitably. In 1971, the Shiyes logging camp became part of the Verkhne-Lupinskogo timber industry enterprise and in 1974 it ceased to exist. The last people left the settlement in 2002.[3]

Landfill

In July 2018 two hunters from Urdoma discovered that a huge landfill is under construction nearby, a step that created public outrage in the region due to concerns over pollution and ecological damage[4] leading to the 2018–2020 Shies protests.

References

  1. http://urdoma.info/post/35268 Поездка на Шиес
  2. http://urdoma.info/post/35268 Рождение поселка Шиес
  3. https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/07/06/protests-shiyes-how-garbage-dump-galvanized-russias-civil-society-a66289 Protests in Shiyes: How a Garbage Dump Galvanized Russia’s Civil Society
  4. https://russiabusinesstoday.com/construction/authorities-to-stop-construction-of-162mn-arkhangelsk-landfill-after-protests/ Authorities to Stop Construction of $162mn Arkhangelsk Landfill after Protests