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Encyclopedia > Khabarovsk Krai

Khabarovsk Krai (Russian: Хаба́ровский край) (1995 pop. 1,588,100 est.) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai), located in Russia's Far East. It lies mostly in the basin of the lower Amur River, but also occupies a vast mountainous area along the coastline of the Sea of Okhotsk. The administrative center of the krai is Khabarovsk. 1995 (MCMXCV in Roman) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Russia is a federation which consists of 89 subjects (Russian: субъект(Ñ‹); English transliteration: subyekty, sing. ... Krai (Russian: край; British English transliteration: kray), is a term used to refer to several of Russias 89 administrative regions (federal subjects). ... Far Eastern Federal District Russian Far East (Russian: Д́альний Вост́ок Росс́ии; English transliteration: Dalny Vostok Rossii) is an informal term that refers to the Russian part of the Far East, i. ... A watershed is a region of land where water drains downhill into a specified body of water, such as a river, lake, sea, ocean or wetland. ... The Amur (Russian: Амур) (Simplified Chinese: 黑龙江; Traditional Chinese: 黑龍江; Hēilóng Jiāng, literally meaning Black Dragon River) (Mongolian: Хара-Мурэн, Khara-Muren or Black River) (Manchu: Sahaliyan Ula, literal meaning Black River) is one of the worlds ten longest rivers, located between the Russian Far East and Manchuria of... Sea of Okhotsk The Sea of Okhotsk (named after Okhotsk, the first Russian settlement in the Far East) is a part of the western Pacific Ocean, lying between the Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands on the southeast, the island of Hokkaido to the far south, the island... Khabarovsk Bridge (1916) used to be the longest in Imperial Russia and Eurasia. ...

Khabarovsk Krai
Хабаровский край
     
Flag of Khabarovsk Krai Coat of arms of Khabarovsk Krai
Flag of Khabarovsk Krai Coat of arms of Khabarovsk Krai
Image:RussiaKhabarovsk2005.png
Capital Khabarovsk
Area

- total
- % water Image File history File links KhabarovskKraiFlag. ... Image File history File links Krai_Khabarovsk_coat. ... Image File history File links RussiaKhabarovsk2005. ... Khabarovsk Bridge (1916) used to be the longest in Imperial Russia and Eurasia. ... -1...

Ranked 5th

- 788,600 km²
- 1.2% Here is a list of the 88 federal subjects of Russia in order of size. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ...

Population

- Total
- Density Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. ...

Ranked 35th

- est. 1,427,050 (2004)
- est. 1.7/km² Here is a list of the 89 federal subjects of Russia in order of population according to the 2002 census. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Political status Krai
Federal district Far Eastern
Economic Region Far-East
Cadaster # 27
Official language Russian
Governor Viktor Ishayev
Vice-Governor
Legislature {{{LegiNm}}}
Anthem

Contents

The Russian Federation is divided into 89 subjects (administrative units), 6 of which are krais: Altai Krai Khabarovsk Krai Krasnodar Krai Krasnoyarsk Krai Primorsky Krai Stavropol Krai 1. ... All of the federal subjects of Russia are grouped into seven federal districts (Russian: , sing. ... Far East is a term often used for East Asia and Southeast Asia combined, sometimes including also the easternmost territories of Russia, i. ... Russia is divided into eleven economic regions (Russian: экономические районы, sing. ... Victor Ivanovich Ishaev(Russian: ) is the governor of Khabarovsk Krai in Russia. ...


Geography

Khabarovsk Krai shares its borders with Magadan Oblast on the north, with Sakha Republic and Amur Oblast on the west, with the People's Republic of China and Primorsky Krai on the south, while being limited by the Sea of Okhotsk on the east. The Magadan Oblast is a regional subdivision of Russia, in the Far Eastern Federal District. ... The Sakha (Yakutia) Republic (Russian: Респу́блика Саха́ (Яку́тия); Yakut: Саха Республиката) is a federal subject of the Russian Federation (a republic). ... The Amur Oblast (Амурская область, Amurskaya oblast) (363,700 km², pop. ... Primorsky Krai (Russian: ), also known as Primorye (), is a federal subject of Russia (a krai). ... Sea of Okhotsk The Sea of Okhotsk (named after Okhotsk, the first Russian settlement in the Far East) is a part of the western Pacific Ocean, lying between the Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands on the southeast, the island of Hokkaido to the far south, the island...


Taiga and tundra in the north, swampy forest in the central depression, and deciduous forest in the south are the natural vegetation in the area. Taiga Taiga (IPA pronunciation: , from the Russian тайга́) is a biome characterized by coniferous forests. ... In physical geography, tundra is an area where the tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and OMFG. The term tundra comes from Kildin Sami tū̄ndra, the genitive of tundar, treeless plain. There are three types of tundra: Arctic tundra, Antarctic tundra, and alpine tundra. ...


Time zone

Khabarovsk Krai is located in the Vladivostok Time Zone (VLAT/VLAST). UTC offset is +1000 (VLAT)/+1100 (VLAST). Image File history File links RTZ9. ... Coordinated Universal Time or UTC, also sometimes referred to as Zulu time or Z, is an atomic realization of Universal Time (UT) or Greenwich Mean Time, the astronomical basis for civil time. ...

Economy

Major industries include timberworking and fishing, along with metallurgy in the main cities, although the krai's own mineral resources are poorly developed. Komsomolsk-on-Amur is the iron and steel center of the Far East; a pipeline from northern Sakhalin supplies the petroleum-refining industry in the city of Khabarovsk. In the Amur basin, there is also some cultivation of wheat and soybeans. The capital city, Khabarovsk, is at the junction of the Amur River and the Trans-Siberian railway. Fishing is the activity of hunting for fish. ... Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and of materials engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements and their mixtures, which are called alloys. ... This article is about minerals in the geologic sense; for nutrient minerals see dietary mineral; for the band see Mineral (band). ... Komsomolsk-on-Amur (Russian: Комсомо́льск-на-Аму́ре; often transliterated directly as Komsomolsk-na-Amure) is a city located in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia on the left bank of Amur River. ... Location of Sakhalin in the Western Pacific. ... Khabarovsk Bridge (1916) used to be the longest in Imperial Russia and Eurasia. ... Species T. boeoticum T. compactum T. dicoccoides T. dicoccon T. durum T. monococcum T. spelta T. sphaerococcum References:   ITIS 42236 2002-09-22 Wheat (Triticum spp. ... Binomial name Glycine max (L.) Merr. ... Trans-Siberian line in red; Baikal Amur Mainline in green. ...


Demographics

There are some aboriginal peoples of the Manchu-Tungus language family: Evenks and Evens to the north and some Manchu peoples to the south of the Amur river. Some Nivkhs (Gilyak), an indigenous fishing people with an isolated language, still live around the Amur river delta. The Manchu language is a member of the Tungusic languages; it used to be the language of the Manchu, though now most Manchus speak Mandarin Chinese and there are fewer than 100 native speakers of Manchu out of a total of nearly 10 million ethnic Manchus. ... Tungusic languages (or Manchu-Tungus languages) are spoken in Eastern Siberia and Manchuria. ... The Evenks (obsolete: Tungus) are a nomadic indigenous people, one of the Northern Indigenous Peoples (pop. ... The Evens (formerly known as the Lamuts) (Эвены in Russian) are a people in Siberia. ... The Manchu (Manchu: Manju; Simplified Chinese: 满族; Traditional Chinese: 滿族; Hanyu pinyin: ) are a Tungusic people who originated in Northeastern Asia, collectively known in English as Manchuria. ... The Nivkhs (also Nivkh or Gilyak; ethnonym: Nivxi; language, нивхгу - Nivxgu) are an indigenous people inhabiting the region of the region of the Amur River estuary and on nearby Sakhalin Island. ... Nile River delta, as seen from Earth orbit. ...


Administrative divisions

Main article: Administrative divisions of Khabarovsk Krai.


Cities and towns under krais jurisdiction: Khabarovsk (Хабаровск) (administrative center) city districts: Industrialny (Индустриальный) Kirovsky (Кировский) Krasnoflotsky (Краснофлотский) Tsentralny (Центральный) Zheleznodorozhny (Железнодорожный) Amursk (Амурск) Bikin (Бикин) Komsomolsk-on-Amur (Комсомольск-на-Амуре) city administrative okrugs: Leninsky (Ленинский) Tsentralny (Центральный) Nikolayevsk-on-Amur (Николаевск-на-Амуре) Sovetskaya Gavan (Советская Гавань) Districts: Amursky (Амурский) Urban settlements under the districts jurisdiction: Elban (Эльбан) Litovko (Литовко) with 7 rural administrations under the district...

Administrative subdivisions of Russia Flag of Russia
Federal subjects
Republics Adygeya | Altai | Bashkortostan | Buryatia | Chechnya | Chuvashia | Dagestan | Ingushetia | Kabardino-Balkaria | Karelia | Khakassia | Komi | Kalmykia | Karachay-Cherkessia | Mari El | Mordovia | North Ossetia-Alania | Sakha | Tatarstan | Tuva | Udmurtia
Krais Altai | Khabarovsk | Krasnodar | Krasnoyarsk1 | Perm | Primorsky | Stavropol
Oblasts Amur | Arkhangelsk | Astrakhan | Belgorod | Bryansk | Chelyabinsk | Chita | Irkutsk2 | Ivanovo | Kaliningrad | Kaluga | Kamchatka3 | Kemerovo | Kirov | Kostroma | Kurgan | Kursk | Leningrad | Lipetsk | Magadan | Moscow | Murmansk | Nizhny Novgorod | Novgorod | Novosibirsk | Omsk | Orenburg | Oryol | Penza | Pskov | Rostov | Ryazan | Sakhalin | Samara | Saratov | Smolensk | Sverdlovsk | Tambov | Tomsk | Tula | Tver | Tyumen | Ulyanovsk | Vladimir | Volgograd | Vologda | Voronezh | Yaroslavl
Federal cities Moscow | St. Petersburg
Autonomous oblast Jewish
Autonomous districts Aga Buryatia | Chukotka | Evenkia1 | Khantia-Mansia | Koryakia3 | Nenetsia | Taymyria1 | Ust-Orda Buryatia2 | Yamalia
  1. On 1 January 2007, Evenkia and Taymyria will be merged into Krasnoyarsk Krai.
  2. A referendum is to be held on 16 April 2006 on merging Ust-Orda Buryatia into Irkutsk Oblast. If the result is in favour, the merger will take effect on 1 January 2008.
  3. On 1 July 2007, Kamchatka Oblast and Koryakia will merge to form Kamchatka Krai.
Federal districts
Central | Southern | Northwestern | Far East | Siberian | Urals | Privolzhsky (Volga)

  Results from FactBites:
 
Khabarovsk Krai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (343 words)
The administrative center of the krai is Khabarovsk.
Khabarovsk Krai shares its borders with Magadan Oblast on the north, with Sakha Republic and Amur Oblast on the west, with the People's Republic of China and Primorsky Krai on the south, while being limited by the Sea of Okhotsk on the east.
The capital city, Khabarovsk, is at the junction of the Amur River and the Trans-Siberian railway.
Khabarovsk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (505 words)
Khabarovsk Bridge (1916) used to be the longest in Imperial Russia and Eurasia.
Khabarovsk (Russian: Хаба́ровск) is the administrative center and the largest city of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia.
Khabarovsk, named after a Russian explorer Yerofey Khabarov, was founded in 1858 as a military observation post and later became an important industrial center for the region.
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