Ishym Today

Ishym today is a center of a big agricultural district within the Tyumen region. Economy is represented mostly by food production, and by some smaller industries specialized at building materials and engineering. The Trans-Siberian railway road crosses Ishym. The Ishym district borders with Kazakhstan in the South, and with the Omsk region in the East.

The population of Ishym is over 60 thousand people. There are several movie theatres, recreation centers, and a local museum of history there. There also operates a pedagogical college named after P. Ershov. The visitors to Ishym are impressed with clean streets, and historical monuments being carefully looked after by the residents.