Khabarovsk
Khabarovsk (Russian Хабаровск; ? Pronunciation / i) is a city in Russia on the Amur, near the border with China. It has 577 441 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ) and is the capital city of Khabarovsk Krai in the Russian Far East Federal District.
Geography
Khabarovsk is located in the Far East of Russia on the Amur River at 25 m above sea level. NN, in the same time zone as the Russian Pacific metropolis Vladivostok. The climate is continental with temperatures of -26 ° C in January and 26 ° C in July. It is in the winter ( it is rarely colder than -30 degrees at noon) significantly milder than the north or west of the Khabarovsk region. But often an icy wind blowing across the Amur and the huge plane in which lies the city.
The Amur leads Khabarovsk 1000 m³ / sec water ( January 1985) and 17,300 m³ / sec water ( May 1985) and is constantly changing its bed, which has implications particularly for the borders with China, which is always back on the political agenda. It flows directly to the city along after a little upstream from the mighty Ussuri also flows into the Amur. The Amur branches beside his main arm into countless tributaries. He is in the urban area about two km wide and flows further into the Tatar Strait between the Russian mainland and Sakhalin Island. In winter, the river is always frozen (November to March) and will sail to some extent with wheeled vehicles ( rare since the completion of the street level on the railway bridge over the river ). In the summer it is used as a transport route, as it is navigable to the mouth of Khabarovsk.
Since the accident in a chemical plant in China in the fall of 2005, whereby the Amur was poisoned, is bathing, which was also previously at least on the beach of the Khabarovsk city because of poor water quality problems have become generally questionable.
History
Demographics
Note: Census data
Sports
The Hockey club Amur Khabarovsk plays in the Kontinental Hockey League.
In Khabarovsk the football club FK SKA- Energiya Khabarovsk is located, who represents the city in the second highest Russian league.
The Bandy World Championship 1981 was held in Khabarovsk.
In winter, ice sculptures are regularly manufactured and issued in the public squares. Even ice sculptors from Harbin come to take part in the competitions.
Economy
Almost 75 % of the city population is employed in the industrial sector ( machinery industry). Like the entire Far East region benefited from Khabarovsk commitment of Japanese and Korean investors.
The investments are mainly in the mining, exploitation of natural resources, the conversion of former weapons plants, the development of a transport system and also in the production of consumer goods. Foreign investments are estimated at over 120 million U.S. dollars.
On 31 December 2009, the Russian government has decided to set up in the Khabarovsk region on the territory of the region Sovetskaya Gavan, including the territory of the port of the same name, a special economic zone.
Traffic
In Khabarovsk, Vladivostok before 700 km, crossing the Trans-Siberian Railway on a three- kilometer-long bridge over the Amur. The public transport of the city assumes, among other things, the tram Khabarovsk. However, the most used means of transport are buses and private minibuses ( Marschrutkas ). You pay per ride, so need to buy a new ticket when transferring. So far (as of 2008 ) there is no season tickets or day passes. Veterans and retirees go but free in state and some private transport.
Khabarovsk has a small airport, the rebuilt 1993 ( new terminal) and was completely renovated in 2007. Fly from Moscow, for example, Aeroflot, S7 Airlines and Domodedovo Airlines just after Chabarovsk. There are also international services to Japan, Korea and China as well as several regional connections, such as to Magadan, Yuzhno -Sakhalinsk, Vladivostok, Blagoveshchensk and others.
The road network will be expanded in recent years in many cases and is usually of very good quality. Only roads to more remote villages are not paved. The increase in raw materials and minerals mining in large mines of some remote regions likely to attract further investment.
Education
In Khabarovsk includes the following universities:
- State Humanities University of the Far East
- State Medical University of the Far East
- State University of the Pacific
- State University of Transport and Communications of the Far East
Sons and daughters of the town
- Andrey Alexander, artist, director and writer
- Olexandr Aliyev, Ukrainian football player
- Georgi Berdjukow, hockey player
- Sergei Bodrov, film director, screenwriter and producer
- Stanislav Bocharov, hockey player
- Pyotr Buslow, Film Director
- Alexander Fischer, Soviet- Austrian jazz trumpeter
- Evgeny Grachev, hockey player
- Mikhail Grigorenko, hockey player
- Ho Ka -i, Soviet- North Korean politician
- Gleb Klimenko, hockey player
- Alexander Komarov, former ice hockey player
- Anton Konovalov, skier
- Olena Kostewytsch, World and Olympic champion in the competition of 10 m air pistol
- Viktor Kovalev, Bandyspieler
- Dmitri Lugin, hockey player
- Alexander Mogilny, hockey player
- Alexander Panschinski, cross-country skiers
- Igor Sakharov Ross, one of the pioneers in the field of interdisciplinary art making
- Konstantin Sidenko, Admiral
- Dmitri Tarasov Jewgenjewitsch, hockey player
- Sergei Tschepikow, biathlete
- Andrej Tschmil, former professional cyclist, the Belgian citizenship adopted in 1998
- Yevgeny Tsaregorodtsev, Hockey Goalie
- Efim Zelmanov, mathematicians
Twinning
- Japan Niigata, Japan, since 1965
- United States Portland, United States, since 1988
- Canada Victoria, Canada, since 1990
- People's Republic of China Harbin, People's Republic of China, since 1993
- Flag of South Korea Bucheon, South Korea, since 2002
- China People's Republic of Sanya, People's Republic of China, since 2011
- North Korea Chongjin, North Korea, since 2011