Korfowski
Urban-type settlement
Korfowski
Корфовский
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Korfowski ( Russian Ко́рфовский ) is an urban-type settlement in the Khabarovsk region ( Russia ) with 5733 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The place is located about 30 km as the crow flies south of the regional administrative center of Khabarovsk , which is also the administrative seat of Khabarovsk Rajons , to which the settlement belongs. It is located at the eastern foot of the almost 700 m high mountain range Bolshoi Chechzir (Great Chechzir), which rises further west to almost 1000 m . The Malyje Tschirki brook, a right tributary of the Ussuri tributary Tschirki, flows east of the settlement .
The settlement is the seat of the municipality of Korfowskoje gorodskoje posselenije, to which Korfowski also includes the village of Sosnovka and the settlements of Chechzir, Tschirka, 18 km and 24 km (the kilometers indicated in the names of the settlements correspond to the distance along the A370 Ussuri road from Khabarovsk).
history
The place arose during the construction of the Ussuri Railway, today part of the Trans-Siberian Railway , from Khabarovsk to Vladivostok between 1891 and 1897. The station and settlement were named after Baron Andrei Korf (1831-1893), the first governor-general of the Amur region since 1884 .
A large quarry has been in operation not far from the town since 1904. Since 1950 Korfowski has had the status of an urban-type settlement.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1959 | 4165 |
1970 | 4418 |
1979 | 3198 |
1989 | 5193 |
2002 | 5823 |
2010 | 5733 |
Note: census data
traffic
Korfowski is located on the Trans-Siberian Railway ( Korfowskaja station ; route km 8561 from Moscow ) and on the A370 (formerly M60) highway from Khabarovsk to Vladivostok. A new, freeway-like route of this road, which bypasses the place a few kilometers to the east, is under construction.
Personalities
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Memorial_stone_for_Dersu_Uzala_in_Korfovsky_2.jpg/220px-Memorial_stone_for_Dersu_Uzala_in_Korfovsky_2.jpg)
In 1908 the Nanaier Dersu Usala , known for the books Vladimir Arsenyev and Akira Kurosawa's 1976 Oscar-winning film , was murdered near Korfowski . There is now a memorial stone not far from the site.
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)