Churba
Village
Churba
Хурба
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Churba ( Russian Хурба́ ) is a village (selo) in the Khabarovsk region ( Russia ) with 5957 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The place is about 250 km as the crow flies northeast of the regional administrative center of Khabarovsk , about 8 km from the small left arm protoka Krivaya and 12 km from the main arm of the Amur . Above (to the south) of the village, the rivers Bolshaya (large) and Malaya (small) Churba flow into the Kriwaja arm.
Churba belongs to the Komsomolski Rajon and is about 20 km south-south-west from its administrative seat Komsomolsk am Amur . It is the seat and only locality of the rural municipality (selskoje posselenije) Selo Churba .
history
The village was in 1912 near the old nanaischen settlement Uschtschu founded and named after the near flowing streams. The official founding year, however, is 1937, when the place was considerably expanded in connection with the construction of the railway connection between Khabarovsk and Komsomolsk . The line went into operation in 1940, and in 1943 a forestry business was established in the village. From the 1950s, units of the Soviet Army were stationed in Churba and a military airfield was built, which was later opened for civilian use.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1979 | 5299 |
2002 | 5704 |
2010 | 5957 |
Note: census data
traffic
Churba is located at 332 km of the railway line from Volotschajewka near Khabarovsk to Komsomolsk –Dzjomgi. A few kilometers to the north lies the Komsomolsk marshalling yard (Komsomolsk-Sortirowotschnaja); there the eastern section of the Baikal-Amur main line branches off to Sovetskaya Gawan , which crosses the Amur 13 km northeast of Churba with a combined rail-road bridge opened in 1975. The regional road R454 Khabarovsk - Komsomolsk runs over the bridge , from which the road that crosses the Khurba branches off to the city of Amursk, 20 km south on the left bank of the Amur .
3.5 km east of Churba is the Churba military airfield named after the village, which also serves as the civil airport of Komsomolsk ( IATA airport code KXK, ICAO code UHKK ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ Churba ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the official website of the Komsomolsky rajon (Russian)