Kizema

 village, settlement

Rural locality (a settlement) in Ustyansky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, about 700 km northeast of Moscow. The population was 2,968 as of 2010. Kizema was named after the nearby Kizema river, which is a tributary of Utsya. Kizema is from the Sami word for summer.
Kizema was established in 1942 as a railway station for Pechora railway, built by prisoners from the surrounding Gulag labor camps. Since 1947 there was a timber factory in the village. The Kizema settlement council was formed in 1951. In order to develop the forestry of the surrounding areas, the Kizema Narrow-gauge railway was built, which runs south from Kizema. In September of 1959, the village of Kizema was transferred to the Utsyansky district of the Cherevkovsky oblast. Until 2005, Kizema was an urban-type settlement.