Khabarovsk

Introduction

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Khabarovsk is a city in the far east of Russia and has around 575,000 inhabitants.

Weather

Khabarovsk experiences a humid continental climate with cold winters and warm summers. From June to August average daytime temperatures are in the 24-27 °C range, with nights mostly around 15 °C or a little more. Winters are bitterly cold with average days from December to February ranging from -12 °C to -17 °C and nights plummiting to -20 °C to -24 °C on average. The alltime low stands at -39 °C, while the highest ever recorded is 38 °C, a difference of almost 80 °C! About half of the annual 700mm of precipitation falls during the warm summmer months. Snow is common from November to March, though most of the time it is too cold for much snow.

Getting There

By Plane

Khabarovsk Novy Airport (KHV) offers flights to Moscow, Seoul, Beijing, Harbin, Chita, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatky, St. Petersburg, Bangkok, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sapporo, Yekaterinburg, Magadan, Sochi, Tokyo, Yakutsk, Vladivostok, Anadyr and several other smaller cities in Russia.

By Train

Khabarovsk is located along the Trans-Siberian Railway, about an overnight trip away from the terminus at Vladivostok. Moscow is over a week away by train!

Keep Connected

Phone

See also International Telephone Calls

Post

Russian Post is the national postal service of Russia. It's English version is currently under construction, but mainly involves the track&trace system. The domestic post is reasonably reliable, and sending international mail is fairly reliable but slow, taking at least a few weeks to European countries, longer to the USA or Australia for example. The delivery of mail sent from abroad to Russia is highly unreliable, and people or companies tend to use foreign adresses, from where a private carrier sends it to Russia. Alternatives like poste restante are non-existent with Russian Post. Most cities and large towns in Russia have a Central Post Office (Glavpochtamt), which also sells stamps and envelopes, and usually has fax services and Internet availability, though the latter mostly not in smaller places. Also, many hotels have postal services, including mail boxes. Post offices tend to keep long hours, usually from 8:00am or 9:00am until 8:00pm or 9:00pm Monday to Friday, and closing earlier during weekends. The main central post offices in the biggest cities keep even longer hours. For sending parcels, you can also try services by DHL Russia and FedEx Russia. For all mail you can use the regular alphabet, though maybe include the country's name in Cyrillic. For sending post to Russia (or trying to receive it) note that addresses should be in reverse order: Russia, postal code, city, street address, name.

External Links

• Official Website