Khabarovsk (rus)

Khabarovsk

Khabarovsk ranks 1,494th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Imperial Palace, Tokyo, Medina del Campo, and Putney. Memorable people born in Khabarovsk include Sergei Bodrov, Efim Zelmanov, and Andrei Tchmil. Khabarovsk has been the birth place of many athletes, and film directors. Khabarovsk is located in Russia.

Khabarovsk is the largest city and the administrative centre of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia, located 30 kilometers (19 mi) from the China–Russia border, at the confluence of the Amur and Ussuri Rivers, about 800 kilometers (500 mi) north of Vladivostok. As of the 2021 Russian census, it had a population of 617,441. The city was the administrative center of the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia from 2002 until December 2018, when the status was given to Vladivostok. It is the largest city in the Russian Far East, having overtaken Vladivostok in 2015. It was known as Khabarovka until 1893. As is typical of the interior of the Russian Far East, Khabarovsk has an extreme climate with strong seasonal swings resulting in strong, cold winters and relatively hot and humid summers. Read more on Wikipedia