Sovetskaya Gavan
| Sovetskaya Gavan (English) Советская Гавань (Russian) |
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 Sovetskaya Gavan Administration building |
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.svg) Location of Khabarovsk Krai in Russia |
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| Administrative status (as of September 2011) | |
| Country | Russia |
| Federal subject | Khabarovsk Krai |
| Administratively subordinated to | town of krai significance of Sovetskaya Gavan |
| Administrative center of | town of krai significance of Sovetskaya Gavan,Sovetsko-Gavansky District |
| Municipal status (as of October 2010) | |
| Municipal district | Sovetsko-Gavansky Municipal District |
| Urban settlement | Sovetskaya Gavan Urban Settlement |
| Administrative center of | Sovetsko-Gavansky Municipal District, Sovetskaya Gavan Urban Settlement |
| Head | Pavel Borovsky |
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| Population (2010 Census) | 27,712 inhabitants |
| Time zone | VLAT (UTC+10:00) |
| Founded | August 4, 1853 |
| Town status since | 1941 |
| Previous names | Imperatorskaya Gavan (until 1922) |
| Postal code(s) | 682880 |
| Dialing code(s) | +7 42138 |
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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 Census).
The name of the town is often informally abbreviated to "Sovgavan" (Совгавань).
On May 23, 1853, Lt. Nikolay Konstantinovich Boshnyak of the Russian-American Company ship Nikolay discovered the bay on which Sovetskaya Gavan is located and named it Khadzhi Bay. On August 4, 1853, Captain Gennady Nevelskoy founded a military post named after Admiral Grand Duke Konstantin, and renamed the bay to Imperatorskaya Gavan ('Emperor's Harbor'), after the then reigning Emperor Nicholas I. Nikolay Boshnyak was appointed the commander of the post, which became the first Russian settlement in the area, and the predecessor of today's Sovetskaya Gavan.
After the abandonment of the military post before 1900, the area became a center for timber production, including concessions to companies from other countries such as Canada.
The bay and the settlement were renamed Sovetskaya Gavan in 1922.
During World War II, construction was begun on a railway from the right bank of the Amur River near Komsomolsk-on-Amur to the Pacific coast, with Sovetskaya Gavan chosen as the endpoint. Sovetskaya Gavan was granted town status in 1941; the railway reached the town in 1945. This section of railway was the first section to be completed of what would later become the Baikal-Amur Mainline.
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