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Sovetskaya Gavan
Sign in to savecity in Sovetsko-Gavansky District, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia
Key facts
- Country
- Russia
- Federal subject
- Khabarovsk Krai
- Founded
- August 4, 1853
- Head
- Pavel Borovsky
- Elevation
- 20 m (66 ft)
- Total
- 27,712
- Estimate 2025
- 23,232 ( −16.2% )
- Subordinated to
- town of krai significance of Sovetskaya Gavan
- Capital of
- town of krai significance of Sovetskaya Gavan, Sovetsko-Gavansky District
- Municipal district
- Sovetsko-Gavansky Municipal District
- Urban settlement
- Sovetskaya Gavan Urban Settlement
- Time zone
- UTC+10 ( MSK+7 )
- Dialing code
- +7 42138
- Oktmo id
- 08642101001
- Website
- admsovgav .ru
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- port city
- Named after
- Nicholas I of Russia
- Official name
- Советская Гавань
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Located in
- Primorskaya Oblast
- Official language
- Russian
- Population
- 23232
- Area
- 69
- Elevation
- 20
- Time zone
- UTC+10:00
- Body of water
- Soviet Harbor
- Shares border with
- Maysky, Khabarovsk Krai
- Founded by
- Nikolay Boshnyak
- Official website
- admsovgav.ru
- Image
- Sovetskaya Gavan - Victory Square.JPG
- Dialing code
- 42138
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- postal code
- 682800
- Commons category
- Sovetskaya Gavan
- inception
- 1853-01-01
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Sovetskaya Gavan
- native label
- Советская Гавань
- twinned administrative body
- Everett
- time of earliest written record
- 1853-00-00
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
Sovetskaya Gavan (Russian: Сове́тская Га́вань, lit. 'Soviet harbor') is a town in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia, and a port on the Strait of Tartary which connects the Sea of Okhotsk in the north with the Sea of Japan in the south. Population: 27,712 (2010 census); 30,480 (2002 census); 34,915 (1989 Soviet census).
It was previously known as Imperatorskaya Gavan (Императорская Гавань, lit. 'Imperial harbour') until 1922.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sovetskaya Gavan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.