Kikhchik
Кихчик | |
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Location of Kikhchik  | |
  Kikhchik Location of Kikhchik  Kikhchik Kikhchik (Kamchatka Krai) | |
| Coordinates: 53°25′15″N 156°02′25″E / 53.42083°N 156.04028°E | |
| Country | Russia |
| Federal subject | Kamchatka Krai |
| Administrative district | Ust-Bolsheretsky District |
| Founded | 1926 |
| Elevation | 4 m (13 ft) |
Kikhchik (Russian: Кихчик) is a former urban-type settlement in Ust-Bolsheretsky District, Kamchatka Krai, Far East Russia. It lies on the southwest coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula on the Sea of Okhotsk. Established in 1926 on the river Kikhchik, a fish canning factory was built by the Soviets here and it attained town status in 1940.[1] Kikhchik had a secondary school, two elementary schools, a hospital, a club, a nursery, a kindergarten, three libraries, a canteen, a bakery, a bathhouse, 6 shops and 3 stalls, and an agricultural farm.[2] By 1959 it had a population of 2606,[3] which had declined to 709 by 1970.[4] On August 28, 1972, the settlement of Kikhchik was abandoned.
References[edit]
- ^ В. П. Кусков. Кихчик // Краткий топонимический словарь Камчатской области : (Из истории происхождения географических названий) / В. П. Кусков; Камчатский отдел Географического общества СССР; [под ред. Б. И. Пийпа и В. Н. Виноградова; вступ. статья В. Н. Виноградова; автор статьи в приложении Б. П. Полевой]. — Петропавловск-Камчатский : Дальневосточное книжное издательство, 1967. — С. 47. — 3000 экз. (in Russian)
- ^ С. И. Вахрин. Трагедия камчатского берега. — СПб: Свое издательство, 2017. — С. 344. — 493 с. — ISBN 978-5-4386-1333-6. (in Russian)
- ^ "Всесоюзная перепись населения 1959 г." Demoscope.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 1 February 2020.
- ^ "Всесоюзная перепись населения 1970 г." Demoscope.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 1 February 2020.