Sovetskaya Gavan (Russian: Сове́тская Га́вань, 'Soviet Harbor') is a town in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia, a port on the Strait of Tartary (part of Sea of Japan) and the eastern terminus of the BAM railway line. Russian ( transliteration:,) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages Khabarovsk Krai (Хаба́ровский край Khabarovsky kray) is a federal subject of Russia (a Krai) located in the Russian Far Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending Strait of Tartary ( Gulf of Tartary, Gulf of Tatary, Tatar Strait, Tartar Strait, Strait of Tartar, also Chinese 韃靼海峽 The Sea of Japan is a Marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean, bordered by Japan, Korea, North Korea and Russia |}A train station, railway station, railroad station, or station yard is a facility at which Passengers may board and alight from Trains The Baikal-Amur Mainline ( Russian Байкало-Амурская Магистраль Baikalo-Amurskaya Magistral’, BAM) is a Railway line Population: 30,480 (2002 Census). Russian Census of 2002 (Всеросси́йская пе́репись населе́ния 2002 го́да was the first Census of the Russian Federation carried
History
Sovetskaya Gavan is located on the bay that was discovered on May 23, 1853 by Lt. Nikolay Konstantinovich Boshnyak (Russian: Николай Константинович Бошняк) in Russian-American Company ship "Nikolay", and named Hadji Bay. Russian ( transliteration:,) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages The Russian-American Company ( Under His Imperial Majesty's Protection Russian-American Company)was a state-sponsored Trading company begun by Grigory and Natalia On August 4, 1853, Capt. Gennady Nevelskoy founded there a military post named after Admiral Grand Duke Constantine, and renamed the bay to Imperatorskaya Gavan ('Emperor's Harbour'), after the then reigning emperor Nicholas I. Gennady Ivanovich Nevelskoy (Генна́дий Ива́нович Невельско́й in Drakino now in Soligalichsky District, Kostroma Oblast &ndash Grand Duke Constantin Nikolaevich of Russia (Константин Николаевич September 9 1827 – January 13 1892) was the second Nikolay Boshnyak was appointed the commander of the post, which became the first Russian settlement in the area, and the predecessor of today's Sovetskaya Gavan. [1]
The bay and the settlement were renamed to Sovetskaya Gavan ('Soviet Harbor') in 1922.
Sovetskaya Gavan became a town in 1941. In 1958, the city's northern neighborhood, on the Vanino Bay, was separated into a separate urban-type settlement Vanino. Urban-type settlement (посёлок городско́го ти́па posyolok gorodskogo tipa; селище міського типу selyshche mis'koho typu; Vanino may refer to Vanino Khabarovsk Krai, an urban-type settlement in Khabarovsk Krai Russia Vanino Kirov Oblast, a village in Kirov
It is served by Kamenny Ruchey naval airfield (also known as Mongokhto) as well as Maygatka Airport. Kamenny Ruchey (also Mongokhto, Alekseyevka, and Mongohto) (Russian Монгохто Каменный Ручей is an air base in Russia
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