Selikhino

Coordinates: 50°22′08″N 137°30′16″E / 50.36889°N 137.50444°E / 50.36889; 137.50444

Selikhino (Russian: Селихино) is a rural locality (a selo) in Komsomolsky District of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. Population: 4,255(2010 Census);[1] 4,865(2002 Census).[2]

Geography

It is located on the Baikal-Amur Mainline railway, shortly after the railway leaves Komsomolsk-on-Amur towards Sovetskaya Gavan.

History

Selikhino was the junction station for a railway built in the early 1950s by the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin, intended to link to a tunnel to the island of Sakhalin. Construction of the tunnel was abandoned after Stalin's death; however, the railway had already been built as far as Chyorny Mys; this section was kept open for logging industry traffic until the 1990s.

References

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