# Tayga > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Tayga > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Tayga.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tayga > Source revision: 1312196765 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Other uses|Taiga (disambiguation)}} {{Infobox Russian town |en_name=Tayga |ru_name=Тайга |image_skyline=Tayga Magazov.jpg |image_caption=The former shop of Merchant Magazov (1906, architect Lygin) |coordinates = {{coord|56|04|N|85|37|E|display=inline,title}} |map_label_position=right |image_coa=Taiga COA (2020).jpg |coa_caption= |image_flag= |flag_caption= |anthem= |anthem_ref= |holiday= |holiday_ref= |federal_subject=[Kemerovo Oblast](/source/Kemerovo_Oblast) |federal_subject_ref= |adm_city_jur=Tayga [Town Under Oblast Jurisdiction](/source/City_of_federal_subject_significance) |adm_city_jur_ref= |adm_ctr_of=Tayga Town Under Oblast Jurisdiction |adm_ctr_of_ref= |inhabloc_cat=Town |inhabloc_cat_ref={{OKATO reference|32 440 002}} |inhabloc_type= |inhabloc_type_ref= |urban_okrug_jur=Tayginsky Urban Okrug |urban_okrug_jur_ref= |mun_admctr_of=Tayginsky Urban Okrug |mun_admctr_of_ref= |leader_title= |leader_title_ref= |leader_name= |leader_name_ref= |representative_body= |representative_body_ref= |area_km2= |area_km2_ref= |pop_2010census=25331 |pop_2010census_ref={{ru-pop-ref|2010Census}} |pop_latest= |pop_latest_date= |pop_latest_ref= |established_date=end of the 19th century |established_title= |established_date_ref= |current_cat_date=1911 |current_cat_date_ref= |postal_codes= |postal_codes_ref= |dialing_codes= |dialing_codes_ref= |website= }} '''Tayga''' or '''Taiga''' ({{langx|ru|Тайга́}}) is a [town](/source/types_of_inhabited_localities_in_Russia) in [Kemerovo Oblast](/source/Kemerovo_Oblast), [Russia](/source/Russia), located {{convert|118|km|sp=us}} northwest of [Kemerovo](/source/Kemerovo). Population: {{ru-census|p2010=25,331|p2002=24,726|p1989=26,233}} The town is one of the biggest [railway junctions](/source/Tayga_Railway_station) in [Russia](/source/Russia). ==Geography== The town is a railroad junction on [Trans-Siberian Railway](/source/Trans-Siberian_Railway), and also the starting point of the Tayga–[Bely Yar](/source/Bely_Yar) branch of the Western Siberian Railway, which provides access to [Tomsk](/source/Tomsk). ==History== Tayga was founded in the end of the 19th century due to the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway.{{cite web|url=http://www.sibir.r42.su/section/132.html|script-title=ru:Тайгинский городской округ|publisher=Администрация Кемеровской области|language=Russian|accessdate=February 20, 2012}} The station was opened in 1898. In 1911, Tayga was granted town status. ==Administrative and municipal status== Within the [framework of administrative divisions](/source/subdivisions_of_Russia), it is, together with five rural localities, incorporated as '''Tayga [Town Under Oblast Jurisdiction](/source/City_of_federal_subject_significance)'''—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the [districts](/source/administrative_divisions_of_Kemerovo_Oblast).Law #215-OZ As a [municipal division](/source/subdivisions_of_Russia), Tayga Town Under Oblast Jurisdiction is incorporated as '''Tayginsky Urban Okrug'''.Law #104-OZ ==Culture and recreation== Tayga contains ten objects classified as cultural and historical heritage of local significance.{{cite web|url=http://kulturnoe-nasledie.ru/|script-title=ru:Памятники истории и культуры народов Российской Федерации|publisher=Russian Ministry of Culture|language=Russian|accessdate=21 March 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090416200850/http://kulturnoe-nasledie.ru/|archivedate=April 16, 2009|df=mdy-all}} Five of them are monuments of architecture, and the other five are monuments of history. ===Monuments of architecture=== {| class=wikitable !Monument ID||Protection level||Ensemble||Monument||Location||Photo||Notes |- ||[http://www.kulturnoe-nasledie.ru/monuments.php?id=4200000294 4200000294] ||Local ||- ||[Merchant Magazov shop](/source/Merchant_Magazov_shop%2C_Tayga)
Лавка купца И. Магазова ||24 Internatsionalnaya Street ||100x100px || |- ||[http://www.kulturnoe-nasledie.ru/monuments.php?id=4200233000 4200233000] ||Local ||- ||[Tayga railway station](/source/Tayga_railway_station) building
Здание железнодорожного вокзала ||Railway station ||100x100px || |- ||[http://www.kulturnoe-nasledie.ru/monuments.php?id=4200234000 4200234000] ||Local ||- ||[Tayga Church](/source/Tayga_Church)
Церковь ||Internatsionalnaya Street ||100x100px || |- ||[http://www.kulturnoe-nasledie.ru/monuments.php?id=4200235000 4200235000], same as [http://www.kulturnoe-nasledie.ru/monuments.php?id=4200236000 4200236000] ||Local ||- ||[Tayga water tower](/source/Tayga_water_tower)
Водонапорная башня ||Kirova Street, the railway depot ||100x100px || |- ||[http://www.kulturnoe-nasledie.ru/monuments.php?id=4200237000 4200237000] ||Local ||- ||Residential house
Жилой дом ||34 Proletarskaya Street ||100x100px || |} ===Monuments of history=== {| class=wikitable !Monument ID||Protection level||Ensemble||Monument||Location||Photo||Notes |- ||[http://www.kulturnoe-nasledie.ru/monuments.php?id=4200000064 4200000064] ||Local ||- ||Monument to Sergey Kirov
Памятник С. М. Кирову ||Next to the railway depot ||100x100px || |- ||[http://www.kulturnoe-nasledie.ru/monuments.php?id=4200000295 4200000295] ||Local ||- ||Steam engine P36-0192
Паровоз "П36-0192"-памятник революционной, боевой, трудовой славы железнодорожников станции Тайга ||Next to the railway depot ||100x100px || |- ||[http://www.kulturnoe-nasledie.ru/monuments.php?id=4200000296 4200000296] ||Local ||- ||A tomb of three seamen executed by shooting
Братская могила трех расстрелянных матросов ||{{convert|500|m|abbr=on}} from the last houses on Sovkhoznaya Street ||100x100px || |- ||[http://www.kulturnoe-nasledie.ru/monuments.php?id=4200000297 4200000297] ||Local ||- ||[Monument to victims of political repressions](/source/Monument_to_victims_of_political_repressions%2C_Tayga)
Памятник жертвам политических репрессий ||13 Kirova Avenue ||100x100px || |- ||[http://www.kulturnoe-nasledie.ru/monuments.php?id=4200232000 4200232000] ||Local ||- ||Building of the railway depot
Здание локомотивного депо, где выступал видный партийный деятель С. М. Киров ||Tayga railway station ||100x100px || |} ==References== ===Notes=== {{Reflist}} ===Sources=== *{{RussiaAdmMunRef|kem|adm|law}} *{{RussiaAdmMunRef|kem|mun|list}} {{Kemerovo Oblast}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2011}} Category:Cities and towns in Kemerovo Oblast --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Tayga](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tayga) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tayga?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.