Shumikha
Shumikha
a city and the administrative center of Shumikha Raion, Kurgan Oblast, RSFSR. Railroad station on the Cheliabinsk-Kurgan line, 133 km west of Kurgan. Population, 21,000 (1974). Shumikha has a machine-building plant, a plant for the repair of bearings, a plant for the manufacture of reinforced concrete products, a brickyard, and a garment factory. It also has two mixed-feed plants, a seed-cleaning plant, a poultry-packing combine, and a butter and milk combine. A museum of local lore islocatedinthecity.