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Syamzha () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Syamzhensky District of Vologda Oblast, Russia, located on both banks of the Syamzhena River, a tributary of the Kubena River. It also serves as the administrative center of Syamzhensky Selsoviet, one of the ten selsoviets into which the district is administratively divided. Municipally, it is the administrative center of Syamzhenskoye Rural Settlement. Population:

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Place details

Locality
Сямжа
Region
Вологодская область
Country
Россия
Population
3,856
Timezone
Europe/Moscow

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Key facts

Russian inhabited locality.en_name
Syamzha
Russian inhabited locality.ru_name
Сямжа
Russian inhabited locality.map_label_position
right
Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject
Vologda Oblast
Russian inhabited locality.adm_district_jur
Syamzhensky District
Russian inhabited locality.adm_selsoviet_jur
Syamzhensky Selsoviet
Russian inhabited locality.adm_ctr_of
Syamzhensky District, Syamzhensky Selsoviet
Russian inhabited locality.inhabloc_cat
Rural locality
Russian inhabited locality.inhabloc_type
Selo
Russian inhabited locality.mun_district_jur
Syamzhensky Municipal District
Russian inhabited locality.rural_settlement_jur
Syamzhenskoye Rural Settlement
Russian inhabited locality.mun_admctr_of
Syamzhensky Municipal District, Syamzhenskoye Rural Settlement
Russian inhabited locality.pop_2010census
3950

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Syamzha () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Syamzhensky District of Vologda Oblast, Russia, located on both banks of the Syamzhena River, a tributary of the Kubena River. It also serves as the administrative center of Syamzhensky Selsoviet, one of the ten selsoviets into which the district is administratively divided. Municipally, it is the administrative center of Syamzhenskoye Rural Settlement. Population:

The name of Syamzha originates from the Syamzhena River, which, in turn, originates from Finnic languages and means "moss water" or "water from the swamp".

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Syamzha” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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