Nikolayevsk-on-Amur
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| Administrative status (as of September 2011) | |
| Country | Russia |
| Federal subject | Khabarovsk Krai[1] |
| Administratively subordinated to | town of krai significance of Nikolayevsk-on-Amur[1] |
| Administrative center of | town of krai significance of Nikolayevsk-on-Amur,[2] Nikolayevsky District[2] |
| Municipal status (as of October 2010) | |
| Municipal district | Nikolayevsky Municipal District[3] |
| Urban settlement | Nikolayevsk-na-Amure Urban Settlement[3] |
| Administrative center of | Nikolayevsk-na-Amure Urban Settlement[citation needed] |
| Head[citation needed] | Pyotr Volynsky[citation needed] |
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| Population (2010 Census) | 22,752 inhabitants[4] |
| Time zone | VLAT (UTC+11:00)[5] |
| Founded | August 13, 1850[citation needed] |
| Town status since | 1856[citation needed] |
| Postal code(s)[6] | 682460 |
| Dialing code(s) | +7 42135[citation needed] |
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Nikolayevsk-on-Amur (Russian: Никола́евск-на-Аму́ре, Nikolayevsk-na-Amure) is a town in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia located on the Amur River close to its liman in the Pacific Ocean. Population: 22,752 (2010 Census);[4] 28,492 (2002 Census);[7] 36,296 (1989 Census).[8]
Geography
The town is situated on the left bank of the Amur River, 80 kilometers (50 mi) from where it flows into the Amur estuary, 977 kilometers (607 mi) north of Khabarovsk and 582 kilometers (362 mi) from the Komsomolsk-on-Amur railway station. It is the closest significant settlement to the Strait of Tartary separating the mainland from Sakhalin.
History
Medieval and early-modern history
In the late Middle Ages, the people living along the lower course of the Amur (Nivkh, Oroch, Evenki) were collectively known in China as the "wild Jurchen". The Yuan Dynasty Mongols sent expeditions to this area with an eye toward using the region as a base for attack on Japan, or for defending against the Sakhalin Ainus. According to the History of Yuan, in 1264 the Nivkhs recognized the Mongol sovereignty. In 1263, the Mongols set up the "Command Post of the Marshal of the Eastern Campaign" near the modern settlement of Tyr, some 100 kilometers (62 mi) upstream from today's Nikolayevsk-on-Amur. At roughly the same time, a shrine was built on the Tyr Rock.[9][10]
From 1411 to 1433, the Ming eunuch Yishiha, a man of Haixi Jurchen origin, led four large missions to win over the allegiance of the "Jurchen" tribes along the Sunggari and Amur Rivers. During this time, the Yongning Temple was constructed at Tyr, and stelae with inscriptions erected.[9]
Russian period
The Russian settlement, likely preceded by the Manchu village of Fuyori,[11] was founded as Nikolayevsky Post by Gennady Nevelskoy on August 13, 1850 and named for Tsar Nicholas I.[citation needed]
The settlement quickly became one of the main economic centers on the Pacific coast of the Russian Empire. The main Russian Pacific harbor was moved from Petropavlovsk to Nikolayevsk-on-Amur in 1855 after the Siege of Petropavlovsk. It was granted town status and renamed Nikolayevsk-on-Amur in 1856, when Primorskaya Oblast was established.[citation needed] Admiral Vasily Zavoyko supervised the construction of a naval base in Nikolayevsk-on-Amur.
The town emerged as an important commercial harbor; however, due to navigational difficulties caused by the sand banks in the Amur estuary and sea ice making the harbor unusable for five months each year, the main center for Russian shipping were transferred to the better situated Vladivostok in the early 1870s. The town remained the administrative center of this region until 1880, when the governor relocated to Khabarovsk. Anton Chekhov, visiting the town on his journey to Sakhalin in 1890, noted its rapid depopulation, although this trend was slowed somewhat in the late 1890s by the discovery of gold and establishment of salmon fisheries.
During the Russian Civil War, the town's population plummeted from 15,000 to 2,000, as a local partisan leader, later executed by the same Bolsheviks he was supposed to be aligned with, razed the entire town to the ground and massacred the minority Japanese population along with most of the Russian population.
Around 1940, a prison camp of the gulag system was located in the town.[12]
Like many other places in the Russian Far East, the town has seen a drop in population since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, dropping from 36,296 inhabitants recorded in the (1989 Census),[8] to only 22,772 in 2010.[4]
Administrative and municipal status
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Nikolayevsk-on-Amur serves as the administrative center of Nikolayevsky District,[2] even though it is not a part of it.[1] As an administrative division, it is incorporated separately as the town of krai significance of Nikolayevsk-na-Amure—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.[1] As a municipal division, the town of krai significance of Nikolayevsk-na-Amure is incorporated within Nikolayevsky Municipal District as Nikolayevsk-na-Amure Urban Settlement.[3]
Economy
Fishing and fish processing are the main industries of the town, along with ship maintenance and some agricultural production in the surrounding area.
Transportation
Nikolayevsk-on-Amur has no land transport connections. Traffic to and from the town enters via the port on the Amur, or the small airport, namely Nikolayevsk-on-Amur Airport (IATA: NLI), which is home to Nikolaevsk-Na-Amure Air Enterprise.
Climate
Nikolayevsk-on-Amur has a borderline humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb), almost cold enough to be a subarctic climate (Dfc). Precipitation is not as low in the winter as over most of Siberia since the coast in on the fringe of influence from the Aleutian Low. The near-maritime location only marginally—by 5 °C (9.0 °F)—moderates the winters compared to interior Siberia, but makes the summers noticeably cool (especially in May and June) though the Oyashio fogs are less prevalent than on Sakhalin itself and sunshine hours therefore rather longer.
| Climate data for Nikolayevsk-on-Amur | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 0.3 (32.5) |
5.7 (42.3) |
12.6 (54.7) |
19.6 (67.3) |
30.2 (86.4) |
34.3 (93.7) |
34.1 (93.4) |
35.3 (95.5) |
28.9 (84) |
22.5 (72.5) |
11.4 (52.5) |
2.8 (37) |
35.3 (95.5) |
| Average high °C (°F) | −18.2 (−0.8) |
−13.6 (7.5) |
−5.9 (21.4) |
2.8 (37) |
10.4 (50.7) |
19.2 (66.6) |
22.0 (71.6) |
21.3 (70.3) |
16.0 (60.8) |
6.5 (43.7) |
−6.4 (20.5) |
−15.9 (3.4) |
3.3 (37.9) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −22.5 (−8.5) |
−18.8 (−1.8) |
−11.9 (10.6) |
−2.2 (28) |
4.7 (40.5) |
13.0 (55.4) |
16.7 (62.1) |
15.8 (60.4) |
10.5 (50.9) |
1.8 (35.2) |
−10.5 (13.1) |
−19.8 (−3.6) |
−1.8 (28.8) |
| Average low °C (°F) | −26.1 (−15) |
−23 (−9) |
−17.2 (1) |
−6.4 (20.5) |
0.6 (33.1) |
7.7 (45.9) |
12.3 (54.1) |
11.5 (52.7) |
6.2 (43.2) |
−1.8 (28.8) |
−14.1 (6.6) |
−23.2 (−9.8) |
−6 (21) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −47.2 (−53) |
−45.9 (−50.6) |
−37.6 (−35.7) |
−28.8 (−19.8) |
−11.9 (10.6) |
−3.8 (25.2) |
1.3 (34.3) |
0.6 (33.1) |
−6 (21) |
−25.1 (−13.2) |
−34 (−29) |
−44.2 (−47.6) |
−47.2 (−53) |
| Precipitation mm (inches) | 31.1 (1.224) |
31.3 (1.232) |
32.6 (1.283) |
37.9 (1.492) |
49.9 (1.965) |
39.7 (1.563) |
72.2 (2.843) |
82.0 (3.228) |
88.2 (3.472) |
79.7 (3.138) |
50.6 (1.992) |
45.7 (1.799) |
640.9 (25.232) |
| Avg. precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm) | 5.8 | 6.2 | 5.9 | 7.1 | 7.9 | 5.7 | 8.1 | 10.0 | 10.8 | 10.0 | 8.2 | 7.6 | 93.3 |
| % humidity | 77 | 75 | 73 | 75 | 76 | 76 | 81 | 82 | 81 | 77 | 76 | 78 | 77.3 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 130.2 | 161.0 | 232.5 | 210.0 | 232.5 | 234.0 | 238.7 | 204.6 | 183.0 | 142.6 | 132.0 | 93.0 | 2,194.1 |
| Source #1: pogoda.ru.net[13] | |||||||||||||
| Source #2: Hong Kong Observatory[14] | |||||||||||||
References
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Resolution #143-pr, Article 3
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Государственный комитет Российской Федерации по статистике. Комитет Российской Федерации по стандартизации, метрологии и сертификации. №ОК 019-95 1 января 1997 г. «Общероссийский классификатор объектов административно-территориального деления. Код 08 414», в ред. изменения №226/2013 от 1 января 2014 г.. (State Statistics Committee of the Russian Federation. Committee of the Russian Federation on Standardization, Metrology, and Certification. #OK 019-95 January 1, 1997 Russian Classification of Objects of Administrative Division . Code 08 414, as amended by the Amendment #226/2013 of January 1, 2014. ).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Law #191
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1" [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года (2010 All-Russia Population Census) (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service. 2011. Retrieved June 29, 2012.
- ↑ Правительство Российской Федерации. Постановление №725 от 31 августа 2011 г. «О составе территорий, образующих каждую часовую зону, и порядке исчисления времени в часовых зонах, а также о признании утратившими силу отдельных Постановлений Правительства Российской Федерации». Вступил в силу по истечении 7 дней после дня официального опубликования. Опубликован: "Российская Газета", №197, 6 сентября 2011 г. (Government of the Russian Federation. Resolution #725 of August 31, 2011 On the Composition of the Territories Included into Each Time Zone and on the Procedures of Timekeeping in the Time Zones, as Well as on Abrogation of Several Resolutions of the Government of the Russian Federation. Effective as of after 7 days following the day of the official publication.).
- ↑ Почта России. Информационно-вычислительный центр ОАСУ РПО. Поиск объектов почтовой связи (Russian)
- ↑ "Численность населения России, субъектов Российской Федерации в составе федеральных округов, районов, городских поселений, сельских населённых пунктов – районных центров и сельских населённых пунктов с населением 3 тысячи и более человек" [Population of Russia, its federal districts, federal subjects, districts, urban localities, rural localities—administrative centers, and rural localities with population of over 3,000]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года (All-Russia Population Census of 2002) (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service. May 21, 2004. Retrieved February 9, 2012.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Demoscope Weekly (1989). "Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность наличного населения союзных и автономных республик, автономных областей и округов, краёв, областей, районов, городских поселений и сёл-райцентров." [All Union Population Census of 1989. Present population of union and autonomous republics, autonomous oblasts and okrugs, krais, oblasts, districts, urban settlements, and villages serving as district administrative centers]. Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 года (All-Union Population Census of 1989) (in Russian). Institute of Demographics of the State University—Higher School of Economics. Retrieved February 9, 2012.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 В. Ц. Головачёв (V. Ts. Golovachеv), "Тырские стелы и храм «Юн Нин» в свете китайско-чжурчжэньских отношений XIV-XV вв." (ййThe Tyr stelae and the Yongning Temple viewed in as an aspect of Sino-Jurchen relationsйй), Etno-zhurnal, November 14, 2008.
- ↑ Объекты туризма — Археологические. Тырские храмы (Regional government site explaining the location of the Tyr (Telin) temples: just south of the Tyr village)
- ↑
- ↑ Nikolayevsky-ITL on the website of Memorial (German)
- ↑ "Климат Николаевска-на-Амуре". Погода и климат. Retrieved 2011-09-17.
- ↑ "Climatological Normals of Nikolayevsk-on-Amur". Hong Kong SAR Government. Retrieved 2011-09-17.
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