Khabarovsk

Khabarovsk (Russian: Хабаровск) is a city in and the administrative center of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. It has 618,150 people as of 2018.

Khabarovsk (English)
Хабаровск (Russian)
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View of Khabarovsk looking down the Ussuriysky Boulevard
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Coat of arms of Khabarovsk.svg
Flag of Khabarovsk.svg
Coat of arms
Flag
AnthemAnthem of Khabarovsk[2]
City DayLast Sunday of May[3]
Administrative status
CountryRussia
Federal subjectKhabarovsk Krai[4]
Administratively subordinated tocity of krai significance of Khabarovsk[1]
Municipal status
Urban okrugKhabarovsk Urban Okrug[5]
Mayor[7]Sergei Kravchuk[6]
Representative bodyCity Duma[7]
Statistics
Area400 km2 (150 sq mi)[8]
Population (2010 Census,
preliminary)
577,441 inhabitants[9]
Rank in 201026th
Population (January 2015 est.)607,216 inhabitants[10]
Density1,444/km2 (3,740/sq mi)[11]
Time zoneVLAT (UTC+11:00)
FoundedMay 31, 1858[3]
City status since1880[12]
Postal code(s)680000–680003, 680006, 680007, 680009, 680011–680015, 680017, 680018, 680020–680023, 680025, 680026, 680028–680033, 680035, 680038, 680040–680043, 680045, 680047, 680051, 680052, 680054, 680055, 680700, 680880, 680890, 680899, 680921, 680950, 680960–680967, 680970, 680999, 901183, 901185
Dialing code(s)+7 4212
Official website

History

Khabarovsk is located at the Amur River just below the city's confluence with the Ussuri. Khabarovsk was named after E.P. Khabarov, who made several undertaken journeys to the Amur River basin in the mid-17th century. Khabarovsk was founded in May 31,1858 as a military outpost. Khabarovsk's nodal position at the point at which the Trans-Siberian Railway crosses the Amur River made it an important focus of the Russian Far East, and at one time it administered the entire area to the Bering Strait, which connects Russia and North America. Modern Khabarovsk spreads across a series of small valleys and ridges perpendicular to the Amur.

Khabarovsk has an attractive waterfront park and long area and a mixture of modern apartment blocks, factories, and old, one-story wooden houses. It is a major industrial centre, with most enterprises located in the upstream district. They include large scale engineering and machine-building industries, oil refining, timber working, furniture making, and many light industries.

Economy

Khabarovsk has an institution of higher education, agricultural, medical, teacher-training, and railway-engineering institutes and several scientific-research establishments.

Khabarovsk Media

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Resolution #143-pr
  2. Decision #856
  3. 3.0 3.1 Charter of Khabarovsk, Article 2
  4. Law #109
  5. Law #177
  6. Official website of Khabarovsk. Sergei Anatolyevich Kravchuk Archived 2020-12-10 at the Wayback Machine, Mayor of Khabarovsk (in Russian)
  7. 7.0 7.1 Charter of Khabarovsk, Article 19
  8. Official website of Khabarovsk. Brief Reference Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
  9. "Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1[[Category:Articles containing Russian language text]]". Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года (2010 All-Russia Population Census) (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service. 2011. Retrieved June 29, 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); no-break space character in |accessdate= at position 9 (help); Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help); URL–wikilink conflict (help)CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  10. Khabarovsk Krai Territorial Branch of the Federal State Statistics Service. Численность населения Хабаровского края по муниципальным образованиям на 1 января 2015 года Archived March 5, 2016, at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
  11. The value of density was calculated automatically by dividing the 2010 Census population by the area specified in the infobox. Please note that this value may not be accurate as the area specified in the infobox does not necessarily correspond to the area of the entity proper or is reported for the same year as the population.
  12. Энциклопедия Города России. Moscow: Большая Российская Энциклопедия. 2003. p. 503. ISBN 5-7107-7399-9.