Chorol (Primorye)

Village Khorol Хороль Federal district far East region Primorye Rajon Chorol Founded 1891 population 10,860 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 120  m Time zone UTC + 10 Telephone code (+7) 42347 Post Code 692250-692255 License Plate 25, 125 OKATO 05 250 000 001 Geographical location Coordinates 44 ° 26 '  N , 132 ° 5'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 25 '30 "  N , 132 ° 4' 30"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Primorye region

List of large settlements in Russia

Khorol ( Russian Хороль ) is a village (selo) in the Primorye ( Russia ) with 10,860 inhabitants (14 October 2010).

geography

The place is located on the southwestern edge of the Chanka lowlands , just 150 km as the crow flies north of the regional capital Vladivostok and 20 km from the south bank of Lake Chanka .

Khorol is the administrative center of the same name Rajons Khorol .

history

The place was founded in 1891 by resettlers from the then Poltava governorate (today Ukraine ) and was named after the local town of Khorol and the river of the same name, Khorol (in Ukrainian and Russian different spelling Хорол without end- ь ).

On January 25, 1935, Khorol became the administrative center of a newly founded Rajons.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	5,881
1959	7,688
1970	11,407
1979	12,402
1989	15,643
2002	11,519
2010	10,860

Note: census data

Economy and Infrastructure

In Khorol as the center of an agricultural area (cultivation of grain, potatoes and vegetables as well as cattle farming) there are companies in the food industry (large bakery and dairy, brewery).

Khorol is located on the railway line opened on this section in 1933 from Sibirzewo (on the Trans-Siberian Railway ) to Turi Rog on the north-west bank of Lake Khanka (station name Khorolsk ; route km 42). The regional road A182 runs through the village, which also leads from Mikhailovka near Ussuriysk on the M60 Khabarovsk – Vladivostok road to Turi Rog.

Immediately to the north-east of the town there was an important military airfield , which has been out of service since the 1990s as a result of the restructuring of the Russian armed forces. It was used, for example, by the 304th Independent Reconnaissance Regiment of the Soviet and Russian Naval Forces, which had aircraft of the naval reconnaissance version of the Tupolev Tu-95 (also called Tu-142), as well as various variants of Tu-16 bombers. The airfield, with its 3700 m long runway, was also intended to serve as an eastern alternative landing site for the Soviet space shuttle Buran .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)
2. ↑ Chorol on the website of the Geographical Institute of the RAN (Russian)
3. ↑ Khorol military airfield on the private website buran.ru (Russian, source references)

Web links

• Khorol Raion Administration website (Russian)
• Khorol district administration on the regional administration website (in Russian)