Nikolayevsk-on-Amur

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Nikolayevsk-on-Amur (English)
Николаевск-на-Амуре (Russian)
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View of Nikolayevsk-on-Amur in 2005
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Nikolayevsk-on-Amur is located in Khabarovsk Krai
Nikolayevsk-on-Amur
Nikolayevsk-on-Amur
Location of Nikolayevsk-on-Amur in Khabarovsk Krai
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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[4]
Head[citation needed] Pyotr Volynsky[citation needed]
Statistics
Population (2010 Census) 22,752 inhabitants[5]
Time zone VLAT (UTC+10:00)[6]
Founded August 13, 1850[citation needed]
Town status since 1856[citation needed]
Postal code(s)[7] 682460
Dialing code(s) +7 42135[citation needed]
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Nikolayevsk-on-Amur (Russian: Никола́евск-на-Аму́ре, Nikolayevsk-na-Amure, Chinese: 庙街) 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);[5] 28,492 (2002 Census);[8] 36,296 (1989 Census).[9]

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.[10][11]

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.[10]

Russian period

View of Nikolayevsk, ca. 1900

The Russian settlement, likely preceded by the Manchu village of Fuyori,[12] was founded as Nikolayevsky Post by Gennady Nevelskoy on August 13, 1850[citation needed] and named for Tsar Nicholas I.[13]

The settlement quickly became one of the main economic centers on the Pacific coast of the Russian Empire. It became Russia's main Pacific harbor (replacing Petropavlovsk) in 1855 after the Siege of Petropavlovsk of 1854. 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 because sea ice made the harbor unusable for five months each year, the main Russian shipping activities in the Pacific 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 slowed somewhat in the late 1890s with the discovery of gold and the establishment of salmon fisheries.

During the Russian Civil War of 1917-1922 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[by whom?] in the town.[14]

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),[9] to only 22,772 in 2010.[5]

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
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)
Average 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)
Average 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
Average relative 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[15]
Source #2: Hong Kong Observatory[16]

References

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Resolution #143-pr, Article 3
  2. ↑ 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 08 231», в ред. изменения №259/2014 от 12 декабря 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 08 231, as amended by the Amendment #259/2014 of December 12, 2014. ). Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "OKATO" defined multiple times with different content
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Law #191
  4. ↑ Law #264
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  6. ↑ Правительство Российской Федерации. Федеральный закон №107-ФЗ от 3 июня 2011 г. «Об исчислении времени», в ред. Федерального закона №248-ФЗ от 21 июля 2014 г. «О внесении изменений в Федеральный закон "Об исчислении времени"». Вступил в силу по истечении шестидесяти дней после дня официального опубликования (6 августа 2011 г.). Опубликован: "Российская газета", №120, 6 июня 2011 г. (Government of the Russian Federation. Federal Law #107-FZ of June 31, 2011 On Calculating Time, as amended by the Federal Law #248-FZ of July 21, 2014 On Amending Federal Law "On Calculating Time". Effective as of after sixty days following the day of the official publication.).
  7. ↑ Почта России. Информационно-вычислительный центр ОАСУ РПО. (Russian Post). Поиск объектов почтовой связи (Postal Objects Search) (Russian)
  8. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 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.
  11. ↑ Объекты туризма — Археологические. Тырские храмы (Regional government site explaining the location of the Tyr (Telin) temples: just south of the Tyr village)
  12. ↑ [1]
  13. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  14. ↑ Nikolayevsky-ITL on the website of Memorial (German)
  15. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  16. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

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