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Railway station in Lensky District, Russia
Shiyes
Шиес
General information
LocationArkhangelsk Oblast, Russia
Coordinates61°53′46″N 49°04′19″E / 61.89611°N 49.07194°E / 61.89611; 49.07194
Owned byRussian Railways
Other information
Fare zone0
History
Opened1940
Services
Preceding station   Northern Railway (Russia)   Following station

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.

Settlement

About 300 meter the station there was a logging settlement with the same name. 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.

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 leading to the 2018–2020 Shies protests.

References

  1. Поездка на Шиес
  2. Рождение поселка Шиес
  3. Protests in Shiyes: How a Garbage Dump Galvanized Russia’s Civil Society
  4. Authorities to Stop Construction of $162mn Arkhangelsk Landfill after Protests
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