Khabarovsk

Khabarovsk (Russian: Хабаровск) is a city in and the administrative center of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. It has 618,150 people as of 2018.

Khabarovsk Хабаровск
City[1]
View of Khabarovsk looking down the Ussuriysky Boulevard
Flag Coat of arms
Anthem: Anthem of Khabarovsk[2]
Location of Khabarovsk
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Coordinates: 48°29′N 135°05′E
Country	Russia
Federal subject	Khabarovsk Krai[3]
Founded	May 31, 1858[4]
City status since	1880[5]
Government
• Body	City Duma[6]
• Mayor[6]	Sergei Kravchuk[7]
Area [8]
• Total	400 km2 (200 sq mi)
Elevation	72 m (236 ft)
Population  (2010 Census)[9]
• Total	577,441
• Estimate  (January 2015)[10]	607,216
• Rank	26th in 2010
• Density	1,400/km2 (3,700/sq mi)
Administrative status
• Subordinated to	city of krai significance of Khabarovsk[1]
• Capital of	Khabarovsk Krai[3], city of krai significance of Khabarovsk[11]
Municipal status
• Urban okrug	Khabarovsk Urban Okrug[12]
• Capital of	Khabarovsk Urban Okrug[12], Khabarovsky Municipal District[13]
Time zone	UTC+10 (MSK+7 [14])
Postal code(s)[15]	680000–680003, 680006, 680007, 680009, 680011–680015, 680017, 680018, 680020–680023, 680025, 680026, 680028–680033, 680035, 680038, 680040–680043, 680045, 680047, 680051, 680052, 680054, 680055, 680700, 680880, 680890, 680899, 680921, 680950, 680960–680967, 680970, 680999, 901183, 901185
Dialing code(s)	+7 4212
OKTMO ID	08701000001
City Day	Last Sunday of May[4]
Twin towns	Villeurbanne, Niigata, Portland, Victoria, Harbin, Bucheon, Sanya, Chongjin, Mudanjiang, Haikou, Musashino
Website	khabarovskadm.ru

History

Khabarovsk is located at the Amur River just below the city's confluence with the Ussuri. Khabarovsk was named after E.P. Khabarov, who made several undertaken journeys to the Amur River basin in the mid-17th century. Khabarovsk was founded in May 31,1858 as a military outpost. Khabarovsk's nodal position at the point at which the Trans-Siberian Railway crosses the Amur River made it an important focus of the Russian Far East, and at one time it administered the entire area to the Bering Strait, which connects Russia and North America. Modern Khabarovsk spreads across a series of small valleys and ridges perpendicular to the Amur.

Khabarovsk has an attractive waterfront park and long area and a mixture of modern apartment blocks, factories, and old, one-story wooden houses. It is a major industrial centre, with most enterprises located in the upstream district. They include large scale engineering and machine-building industries, oil refining, timber working, furniture making, and many light industries.

Economy

Khabarovsk has an institution of higher education, agricultural, medical, teacher-training, and railway-engineering institutes and several scientific-research establishments.