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]
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]
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.