Korfowski

Urban-type settlement Korfowski Корфовский Federal district far East region Khabarovsk Rajon Khabarovsky Urban-type settlement since 1950 population 5733 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 150  m Time zone UTC + 10 Telephone code (+7) 4212 Post Code 680555 License Plate 27 OKATO 08 255 555 Geographical location Coordinates 48 ° 13 '  N , 135 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 13 '15 "  N , 135 ° 3' 30"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Khabarovsk region

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
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

Memorial stone for Dersu Usala not far from the place of his murder

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

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)