Lazarev (urban-type settlement)

Lazarev (Russian Лазарев ) is an urban-type settlement in the Russian region of Khabarovsk with 1308 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Lazarev is located on the same Cape Lazarev, a spit of land that separates the Tatar Strait from the mouth of the Amur in the Okhotsk Sea. The place is named after the Russian admiral Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev (1788-1851), who sailed in the years 1813-1816 from Kronstadt to the then still Russian province Alaska. The strait between the island of Sakhalin and the mainland is only 7.3 km wide at Lazarev and bears the name Newelskoistraße, named after Gennady Ivanovich Nevelskoi. This proved in 1849 with the discovery of the strait concluded that Sakhalin is an island and no peninsula, as was then still suspected. The settlement Lazarev was founded in the same year. Due to the geographical conditions, there is still plans to build here the so-called Sakhalin tunnel that will connect the island with the mainland. The corresponding railway Selichino Sakhalin would also connect Lazarev to the rail network of the Russian railways. Bauvorleistungen for the project from the 1950s can be seen to this day in the area of Lazarev. So far Lazarev can be reached by land only via a 700 km long dirt road from Komsomolsk-on- Amur from.

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