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Sovetskaya Gavan

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Sovetskaya Gavan

Town and Pacific port in the Khabarovsk krai (territory) of the Russian Far East; population (2001 est) 30,800. Sovetskaya Gavan stands on the Tatar Strait, which separates the mainland from the island of Sakhalin. There are timber and ship-repair yards in the city; fishing is also an important economic activity. The port is the eastern terminus of the Baikal–Amur railway (an extension of the Trans-Siberian Railway), which links it to Komsomolsk-na-Amure 500 km/311 mi to the west.

Sovetskaya Gavan was founded in 1853. It is the third most important naval base on Russia's Pacific coast (behind Vladivostok and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy).



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