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  Khabarovsk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Khabarovsk Bridge (1916) used to be the longest in Imperial Russia and Eurasia.
Khabarovsk, named after a Russian explorer Yerofey Khabarov, was founded in 1858 as a military observation post and later became an important industrial center for the region.
In 1894, the Department of Russian Geographical Society was formed in Khabarovsk and began initiating the foundation of libraries, theaters, and museums in the city.
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 Khabarovsk Krai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The administrative center of the krai is Khabarovsk.
Khabarovsk Krai shares its borders with Magadan Oblast on the north, with Sakha Republic and Amur Oblast on the west, with the People's Republic of China and Primorsky Krai on the south, while being limited by the Sea of Okhotsk on the east.
The capital city, Khabarovsk, is at the junction of the Amur River and the Trans-Siberian railway.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Khabarovsk_Krai   (323 words)

  
 Khabarovsk Hotels
Khabarovsk, the industrial, transport, administrative and cultural centre of Khabarovsk Territory, was founded in the spring of 1858 on a spot where the mighty waters of the Amur River break against a high cliff.
The city is named not without reason in honour of a Vologda peasant and later a Siberian dealer Jerofei Khabarov - one of the first in the exploration and settlement of Siberia of the 17th century.
Khabarovsk has developed into a well-built modern city with a population of nearly 700,000.
www.hotels-russia.info /khabarovsk.htm   (281 words)

  
 Kommersant - Russia's Daily Online
Khabarovsk became the center of the Far Eastern Territory in 1924 and of Khabarovsk Territory in 1938.
Khabarovsk Territory is no exception, as most of the territory's enterprises are involved in the production and processing of a wide variety of resources.
Khabarovsk Territory has a great variety of mineral resources, although reserves vary greatly in size and few of them are of much commercial significance.
www.kommersant.com /tree.asp?rubric=5&node=427&doc_id=-83   (1780 words)

  
 Vegetation of Khabarovsk - The Woods Hole Research Center
For example, there is immense variance in estimates of the area of Khabarovsk, the current area of forest, and the amount of forest under management.
Khabarovsk is imaged daily by the VEGETATION satellite, and the images cover a swath 2,200 km wide and with a spatial resolution of 1 km.
After extracting the territory of Khabarovsk from the Asia data, we converted it to an ERDAS Imagine image using an ArcView Shapefile of the administrative regions of Russia.
www.whrc.org /russia/our_work/past_projects/Veg_Khabarovsk.htm   (2258 words)

  
 SFPP. Khabarovsk Kray
In spite of the diversity of forest fund and sizable stock of timber, forest utilisation in Khabarovsk Kray is concerned with several difficulties, i.e.
Average age of the Khabarovsk Kray forests is 78 years, though the bulk of mature forests is located in the less accessible northern zone while the most economically developed southern zone holds mainly middle-aged and maturing stands.
Total timber stock of Khabarovsk Kray is estimated as 4755.6 mln.?3 (10% of the total Russian stock to the East of Urals) or 116 ?3/ha, including 4076.0 mln ?3 of the most important for commercial utilisation coniferous and 48.4 mln.
www.fer.ru /sfpp/english/khabarovsk.htm   (671 words)

  
 Update on the Customs services in the Khabarovsk Krai
During the past 10 years, the Khabarovsk Krai customs has successfully lived through the unlimited foreign trade boom of the early nineties, the transition to the contact service and cessation of the state financing in the 1997 and the following decline in foreign trade.
In 2002, Khabarovsk customs was ranked fifth among the RFE customs for the volume of its payments to the federal budget.
Khabarovsk Krai Association of Automobile Transport Companies was established in 1999 by 10 enterprises engaged in automobile cargo and passenger transportation.
www.bisnis.doc.gov /bisnis/bisdoc/0310KHVCustoms.htm   (2316 words)

  
 Khabarovsk city
Khabarovsk, the industrial, transport, administrative and cultural center of Khabarovsk Territory, was founded in the spring of 1858 on a spot there the mighty waters of the Amur River break against a high cliff.
The city's foundation was laid by workers of Nerchinsk and Cassacks from the Upper Amur and Trans-Baikal regions, all of them descendants of the pioneers who explored ans settled Siberia.
Khabarovsk links 3 major transport routs: the Trans-Siberian railway, the longest in the world, the Moscow - Khabarovsk airline, one of the most important and busiest airlines of the country, besides, Khabarovsk is a large port on the Amur, famous for its "river-sea" operations.
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 Khabarovsk-Online. Investment Proposal, Construction01
Khabarovsk Krai is the mountainous territory with few different climatic zones.
The population of the Russian Far East and Khabarovsk Krai was formed by the mixture of settlers from other regions of Russia and much influenced by historic events.
Khabarovsk was surrounded by labor and probation camps and many prisoners (political and criminals) worked at construction sites and local industries.
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 Far East of Russia. (C) Copyright 1995, RusPhoto.
The map of Far-East of Russia with Khabarovsk denoted by red circle in the middle.
Khabarovsk is one of the largest industrial, transport, administrative and cultural centers in the Russian Far East.
Khabarovsk was founded in 1858 by descendants of Russian settlers and pioneers who explored Siberia from XVII century.
www.cs.toronto.edu /~mes/russia/fareast/regions/khabarovsk.html   (301 words)

  
 Khabarovsk information
He became known as the "father" of Khabarovsk after he ordered the establishment of a new military outpost on the Amur River.
It is one of the largest cities in the Russian Far East with a population of close to 1.58 million.
This allowed the city to save the architecture, and build Khabarovsk with undisturbed planning, creating a friendly culture with many museums and theatres, a strong educational base with many universities and colleges, and a large center for industry and transportation.
www.vostok.cc /FarEast/city/Khab/Khab.htm   (311 words)

  
 Khabarovsk, Russia : why come to Russian Far East
Whoever is lucky to have a first look at Khabarovsk from a plane flying over the river, or from the window of a steamship, will never forget the open and weather-beaten face of the city, which is similar to the face of a friendly and self-confident person.
Khabarovsk is turned with its face to the sky and to the water.
Khabarovsk has grown from a small trading post into the cultural and industrial center of the Russian Far East.
www.dalgeotours.com /Khabarovsk.html   (1109 words)

  
 Goals for the Khabarovsk/KRAI Health Care System: Part2
By the fall of 1996 there is a need to organize the activities in several policlinics in Khabarovsk and in the region named Lazo; in 1997 to start this work in the policlinics of Komsomolsk-na-Amure.
With the aim of increasing the quality of medical services Khabarovsk medical university needs to continue the work on preparing physician for general practice, start the training of students on issues of management and quality medical services, start to prepare mid-level medical personnel with advanced education.
Khabarovsk needs to establish a rescue service based on rural posts of ambulance medical service with participation of agencies of internal (domestic) affairs.
www.uky.edu /OtherOrgs/Khabarovsk/HCGoals2.html   (2561 words)

  
 Data About Khabarovsk
Khabarovsk, an inland port city on the confluence of two major rivers, founded in 1858 offering Eastward pioneers abundant natural resources: gold, timber & salmon.
•Khabarovsk, located on three hills overlooking the Amur River, was first established as a military outpost in 1651 during the first wave of Russian colonization.
Warmly pastel-colored Khabarovsk is inviting, with wide, tree-lined boulevards, a popular beach and an interesting museum of ethnography and local history.
www.pksca.org /aboutkh.html   (284 words)

  
 Khabarovsk Russia travel with dalgeo Tours
Many of Khabarovsk's streets are named after pioneers of Siberia and the main street is named after Count Muraviyev-Amursky.
The guests of Khabarovsk can visit exhibition halls and salons to see interesting collections of art, and to buy souvenirs to remember their visit to the Far East.
Leaving Khabarovsk, foreigners carry with them memorable pictures, among which there are often group or personal photographs with the Amur in the background.
www.dalgeotours.com /category.php?catid=11   (1135 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Europe | Toxic leak set to hit Russia city
The Russian city of Khabarovsk is bracing for the arrival of a chemical river spill, after a massive leak of toxic benzene upstream in China.
Khabarovsk residents have been stocking up with drinking water for weeks, and the city is reported to be calm.
Viktor Ishayev, governor of the Khabarovsk region, said he would be seeking compensation from China to pay for emergency measures, like treating the benzene with activated charcoal.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/4545502.stm   (256 words)

  
 Khabarovsk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Khabarovsk, a city of more than 600,000, is second only to Vladivostok in size in the Russian Far East.
Khabarovsk is close to the border with China and is almost directly east of Harbin.
Khabarovsk appeared to a visitor this spring as a cosmopolitan city.
www.alaska.net /~design/fareast/khabarovsk.html   (281 words)

  
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According to [local epidemiologists, 50 percent] of rodents in the Khabarovsk region are infected with [the virus causing] HFRS.
The Khabarovsk region is located in the far eastern part of Russia, bounded in the east by the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan.
In the south, the Khabarovsk region borders the Heilongjiang province of China.
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 KHABAROVSK KRAI COMPANIES & SAKHALIN OIL AND GAS PROJECTS
However, many other Khabarovsk companies fall short of becoming contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers because they fail to meet high safety, environmental, standardization and other requirements set by the project operators.
Many of Khabarovsk Krai enterprises are willing to establish joint ventures with U.S. companies so that they can expand their services and improve the quality of their products to meet higher international quality requirements.
In order to promote the participation of Khabarovsk Krai companies in Sakhalin oil and gas projects and increase their competitiveness through informational and legal support, the Krai Government and a number of large manufacturers, suppliers, services providers, transportation companies and design institutes seek to establish a consortium of Russian Far East companies.
www.bisnis.doc.gov /bisnis/bisdoc/030630khabSakh.htm   (2511 words)

  
 Our Russian Adoption
About 75% of Khabarovsk's inhabitants work in some type of industrial job, and entire sections of the city consist of factories surrounded by Soviet-style apartment blocks.
Khabarovsk was founded in the spring of 1858 on a spot where the waters of the Amur River break against a high cliff.
The foundation of the city was laid by workers of Nerchinsk and Cassacks from the Upper Amur and Trans-Baikal regions, all of whom were descendents of the pioneers who explored and settled Siberia.
members.cox.net /shawadoption/Khabarovsk.htm   (161 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Second Chinese city shuts down water plant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Farther downstream, residents of the Russian border city of Khabarovsk bracing for the arrival of the polluted water vented their anger at China.
Khabarovsk lies along the shores of the Amur river, which is fed by the Songhua River.
Natalya Zimina, spokeswoman for the Khabarovsk regional government, said authorities will shut down the water supply in Khabarovsk for about two days if toxin levels are deemed dangerous.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-12-03-second-chinese-city_x.htm   (839 words)

  
 Atlas: Khabarovsk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Khabarovsk is the largest Russian city east of Lake Baikal, and it is the capital of the Khabarovsk Krai (Territory).
Nearly three-quarters of Khabarovsk's inhabitants work in some type of industrial job, and entire sections of the city consist of factories surrounded by boxy Soviet-style apartment blocks.
The city itself is built on three long geographical ridges, which gave rise to the ancient legend that the area rested on the backs of three great whales.
www.f8.com /FP/Russia/Akhab.html   (162 words)

  
 Chinese Woman Dies in Khabarovsk - Pravda.Ru
Doctors say the patient was doomed to death and died before she regained consciousness; at that, her respiratory deficiency increased and the condition was grave.
The chief sanitary officer of the Khabarovsk Region Rita Liberova says that the menace of infection is real; measures have been taken to resist the infection and avert hysteria among the population.
RIA Novosti learnt at the State Sanitary and Epidemic Control Center of the Khabarovsk Region that the laboratory for atypical pneumonia is working to determine the virus that caused the woman's death.
english.pravda.ru /accidents/21/97/384/11755_SARS.html   (504 words)

  
 Khabarovsk Shipbuilding Yard - Russian Defense Industry
Khabarovsk Shipbuilders is the region’s leading producer of surface vessels and ships.
The shipbuilding yards in Khabarovsk are operating at a very low percent of capacity, as most of the Russian fishing and sea cargo companies cannot afford new boats, and prefer to repair their vessels in the Republic of Korea and Northern China for lower price and better quality.
The shipbuilding plant in Khabarovsk intends to export its motorboat with a special air hollow on the bottom.
www.fas.org /nuke/guide/russia/industry/khabarovsk.htm   (439 words)

  
 ENN: Environmental News Network [[Today's News Full Story ]]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
KHABAROVSK, Russia —; Specialists have detected an increase in benzene in Russia's Far Eastern Amur River, a regional expert said, as this city of about 580,000 people braces for the arrival of the toxic mix of chemicals that spilled from an upriver Chinese factory last month.
The regional governor, meanwhile, said authorities may have to shut down the city's central heating system, a move that could prove disastrous in a region where daytime temperatures Monday were around minus 20 C (-4 F) and where residences are overwhelmingly warmed by water heating at central facilities.
Still, Amur river samples taken about 235 kilometers (150 miles) southwest of Khabarovsk are now showing an increase in levels of benzene, a potentially cancer-causing chemical, said Alexander Gavrilov, director of the Dalgidrometa monitoring agency.
www.enn.com /today.html?id=9490   (483 words)

  
 City of Khabarovsk
Housing is predominantly in multiunit government structures, although many people still live in the older wooden homes left standing in the wake of socialism's construction boom.
The Khabarovsk city center, as viewed from across the Amur river.
Unlike many western cities in Russia, Khabarovsk has kept its statues and monuments to Russia's socialist heroes and continues to keep its communist era street names.
pages.prodigy.net /c_tatham/swmi/citykhab.htm   (164 words)

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