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Sovetskaya Gavan

Khabarovsk Krai, Russia
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About Sovetskaya Gavan

Sovetskaya Gavan is a town in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. On May 23, 1853, Lt. Nikolay Konstantinovich Boshnyak of the Russian-American Company ship Nikolay determined the bay on which Sovetskaya Gavan is positioned and named it Khadzhi Bay. On August 4, 1853, Captain Gennady Nevelskoy founded a army put up named after Admiral Grand Duke Konstantin, and renamed the bay to Imperatorskaya Gavan. The bay turned into also recognised to the English as Barracouta Harbour.

Nikolay Boshnyak become appointed the commander of the put up, which have become the primary Russian settlement within the region, and the predecessor of today's Sovetskaya Gavan. After the abandonment of the navy submit before 1900, the region became a middle for wooden manufacturing, consisting of concessions to groups from other nations together with Canada. The bay and the settlement have been renamed Sovetskaya Gavan in 1922. During World War II, construction was began on a railway from the right bank of the Amur River near Komsomolsk-on-Amur to the Pacific coast, with Sovetskaya Gavan chosen because the endpoint.

Sovetskaya Gavan changed into granted city reputation in 1941; the railway reached the metropolis in 1945. This segment of railway was the primary phase to be finished of what might later end up the Baikal-Amur Mainline. From 1950 till 1954, the town was the site of the jail camp Ulminlag of the gulag device. In 1958, the city's northern neighborhood, on the Vanino Bay, become separated right into a separate city-type agreement of Vanino.

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