Komsomolsk-na-Amure

Komsomolsk -on-Amur - Khabarovsk city in Russia , built on the banks of the Amur River in 348 km to the north- east of the city of Khabarovsk. As the city of shipbuilders on the decision of the Central Executive Committee and the Government of the RSFSR of 1930.

May 10, 1932 the Comintern and the ships Columbus landed on the bank of the Amur near the thousands of the first builders of the future city.Among these pioneers probably had a lot of Young Communists , so the city was named in their honor , even though the brunt of the construction of this object fell on the shoulders of the prisoners Dallaga , has once again turned the taiga in Depth project of the century , and their bones strewn shores of the Amur.

Today, he is at the intersection vazhneyshihtransportnyh ways of the Far East to the West - the Baikal- Amur Mainline , north- east - a waterway along the Amur River to the cityNikolaevsk -on-Amur and further into the Sea of ​​Okhotsk , gas and oil pipelines from Sakhalin Island , in the east - the railway to the sea port city of Vanino and Sovetskaya Gavan , and southwest - the Amur river , rail and road to the city of Khabarovsk, and further to the Pacific Ocean port of Vladivostok and Nakhodka.

It is located in an oasis - the Amur valley , whose width is 20 km , stretching along the left bank of the Amur River for more than 30 km . Its facade , he turned to the river channel width which is within the city of 2.5 km .

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