Komsomolsk-on-Amur

Komsomolsk-on-Amur () is a city in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. It is on the west bank of the Amur River in the Russian Far East. It is on the Baikal-Amur Mainline,  northeast of Khabarovsk. Population: 

 Geography 
The city and its suburbs stretch for over  along the left bank of the Amur River. The river at this point is up to  wide. Lake Khummi is southeast of the city.Google Earth

The distance to Khabarovsk—the administrative center (capital city) of the krai—is ; to the Pacific Ocean—about . The nearest other major town is Amursk, which is about  south.

It is about  east of Moscow. It is at the eastern end of the BAM Railway.

 History 
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The future site of Komsomolsk-on-Amur was conquered by the Mongols in the 13th century. It became part of the Mongol Empire under the Mongol Yuan Dynasty.
19th century
It was later held by the Manchus until the area was ceded (given) to the Russian Empire in the treaty of Aigun in 1858. The village of Permskoye () was created on the later site of Komsomolsk in 1860 by migrant peasants from what is now the Perm Krai.
20th century
1930s
The government of the Russian SFSR announced plans in 1931 to build a shipyard on the Amur at the modern site of Komsomolsk. Construction began in 1932. The town was mainly built using volunteer labor from the Communist youth organization Komsomol. This is how the town received the name Komsomolsk. However, the construction of the town was helped by the use of penal labour from the prison camps in the area.Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956, 592-593 The suffix on Amur was added to differentiate from other towns with the same name.

1940s
By the end of the 1940s, the shipyards plus facilities for other heavy industry had been completed. The city turned into a regional center for industries such as aircraft manufacturing, metallurgy, machinery, oil refining, and shipbuilding. Currently, Komsomolsk-on-Amur is the main center for the manufacture of Sukhoi military aircraft and the Sukhoi Superjet airliner. The MiG-15bis  and the Lisunov Li-2http://www.oldwings.nl/st/li2.pdf  were both built in Komsomolsk-on-Amur.

 Climate 
Komsomolsk-on-Amur has a humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb).

 Twin towns – sister cities 

Komsomolsk-on-Amur is twinned with:

  Jiamusi, China (1994)
  Kamo, Japan (1991)
  Weinan, China (2016)

 Notable residents 
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 Alex Chubrevich, Israeli-Russian professional basketball player for Maccabi Haifa of the Israeli Super League.
 Yuliya Chepalova, cross-country skier.
 Anatoly Dyatlov, deputy chief-engineer of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
 Yury Gazinsky, footballer, scorer of the first goal at the 2018 FIFA World Cup, was born in the city
 Alexandra Ivanovskaya, "Miss Russia 2005"
 Valentina Khetagurova (1914–1992), founder of the Khetagurovite Campaign
 Pasha Kovalev, professional dancer
 Sergei Plotnikov, ice hockey player with Pittsburgh Penguins, NHL
 Ivan Shtyl, sprint canoer

 References 

 Other websites 

 Sports in Komsomolsk-on-Amur
 FC Smena (Komsomolsk-on-Amur) 

Category:Cities and towns in Khabarovsk Krai
Category:1860 establishments in Asia