Verkhnyaya Toyma, Arkhangelsk Oblast
| Verkhnyaya Toyma (English) Верхняя Тойма (Russian) |
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| Country | Russia |
| Federal subject | Arkhangelsk Oblast |
| Administrative district | Verkhnetoyemsky District |
| Selsoviet | Verkhnetoyemsky Selsoviet |
| Administrative center of | Verkhnetoyemsky District, Verkhnetoyemsky Selsoviet |
| Municipal status (as of February 2010) | |
| Municipal district | Verkhnetoyemsky Municipal District |
| Rural settlement | Verkhnetoyemskoye Rural Settlement |
| Administrative center of | Verkhnetoyemsky Municipal District, Verkhnetoyemskoye Rural Settlement |
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| Population (2002 Census) | 3,462 inhabitants |
| Time zone | MSK (UTC+03:00) |
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Verkhnyaya Toyma (Russian: Ве́рхняя То́йма) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Verkhnetoyemsky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Northern Dvina River. It also serves as the administrative center of Verkhnetoyemsky Selsoviet, one of the fourteen selsoviets into which the district is administratively divided. Municipally, it is the administrative center of Verkhnetoyemskoye Rural Settlement. Population:3,462 (2010 Census);3,940 (2002 Census);4,430 (1989 Census). It is served by Verkhnyaya Toyma Airport.
The name of Verkhnyaya Toyma stems from the name of the Verkhnyaya Toyma River, which, in turn, means The Upper Toyma, as compared with The Lower Toyma, the Nizhnyaya Toyma River, also a right tributary of the Northern Dvina.
The toponym Toyma is common to all northern Russian territories, from Toyma in Karelia to Toyma River in the Republic of Tatarstan. It relates to an extinct Uralic ethnonym of the same name known to the Novgorodians since (at least) the beginning of the 12th century. Janet Martin considered Toima (sic) the southern extreme of Novgorodian control over the Dvina basin in this period. The first mention of Toyma, paying tribute to Novgorodians, is dated 1137 but there is no evidence that the word Toyma relates to the present-day area or its neighbor, Verkhnetoyemsky Selsoviet. The 1219 chronicle mentions ethnonym toymokary (Russian: ... И поиде тои зимö Семьюнъ Öминъ въ 4 стöх на Тоимокары ...). The 1237 Tale of the Death of the Russian Land mentions "Toyma pagans" living between "the Karelians" and Veliky Ustyug (Russian: ...от корöлы до Оустьюга, гдö тамо бяхоу тоимици погании...), a location roughly aligned with the Northern Dvina basin.
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