Zima

Zima is a town in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, situated at the point where the Trans-Siberian Railway crosses the Oka River. The town of Staraya Zima on the present site of the town was set up in 1743. In 1772, its populace started to develop all the more rapidly because of the development of a steed tract from Moscow which crossed the Oka River. Until the 1900s, Zima remained a roadside, principally horticultural village. In 1898, the Trans-Siberian railroad was worked through the town and a railroad station was opened.

Town status was conceded to Zima in 1925. Zima's populace stayed at around 40,000 from the 1960s until 1990; nonetheless, after the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the related monetary emergency, the populace diminished by around 15 for each amid the 1990s. The town is the origination of Yevgeny Yevtushenko, a Russian artist, the creator of the true to life sonnet "Zima Station". The town is arranged on a low-lying plain, vigorously water-logged. The Zima River joins the Oka in the town's region.