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Khabarovsk is the capital of Khabarovsk Krai in the Russian Far East, set on the high right bank of the Amur near its meeting with the Ussuri, about 30 kilometres from the Chinese border, and it is famous for its long riverside embankment and the giant bridge across the Amur. With about 617,000 people it is the largest city of the Russian Far East.
The city began in 1858 as the military post of Khabarovka, named after the 17th-century explorer Yerofey Khabarov, after the region passed to Russia under the Treaty of Aigun. It received town status in 1880 and its present name in 1893, and until 2018 it was the centre of the Far Eastern Federal District. Its climate swings from very cold winters to hot, humid summers.
The old centre lies along three parallel hills, with Muravyov-Amursky Street running along the middle one. Visitors walk the Nevelskoy Embankment and look out from the Amur Cliff, see the tall golden domes of the Transfiguration Cathedral, and visit the Grodekov Museum and the Far Eastern Art Museum. In summer, boats leave the river station for trips on the Amur.
The Nevelskoy Embankment runs along the Amur in the historic centre of Khabarovsk and was restored after the great flood of 2013. Named after Admiral Gennady Nevelskoy, who pointed out this site to Muravyov in 1854, it is the city's best-known promenade, with wide views of the river.
The Amur Cliff, called the Utyos by locals, is a rocky bluff over the river in central Khabarovsk and the end point of the classic walk from Lenin Square along Muravyov-Amursky Street. From its top visitors look across the wide Amur to the islands and the far bank.
The Khabarovsk Bridge carries the Trans-Siberian Railway across the Amur at Khabarovsk. Opened in 1916, it was then the longest bridge in Russia, and in 1992 to 2009 it was rebuilt with two railway tracks below and a two-lane road above, part of the Amur highway from Chita.
Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island lies where the Amur and the Ussuri meet, right next to Khabarovsk. After a border agreement fully carried out in 2008, its western part passed to China and Russia kept the eastern part, and the low island of meadows and channels is now reached by road from the city.
The Transfiguration Cathedral in Khabarovsk stands on a steep bluff above the Amur and rises about 95 metres with its crosses, more than twice the height of the nearby House of Radio. It was built in 2001 to 2004 in a traditional style, and its golden domes can be seen from far along the river.
The Dormition Cathedral in Khabarovsk was the first stone church of the city, finished in 1886 with money raised by the merchant Plyusnin. It was pulled down for its bricks in 1930, and a new cathedral was built on Komsomolskaya Square to a new design in 2002.
Komsomolskaya Square is one of the oldest squares in Khabarovsk and was called Cathedral Square until 1923. In 1956 a monument to the heroes of the Civil War in the Far East was raised here, a granite obelisk 22 metres tall with three figures of a partisan, a commissar and a soldier.
Glory Square in Khabarovsk opened on 9 May 1975 for the 30th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. In 1985 a memorial was added with the names of some 19,000 soldiers from Khabarovsk Krai who died at the front, and an eternal flame burns at its centre.
The Grodekov Museum in Khabarovsk is the regional museum of Khabarovsk Krai, founded in 1894 and named after Governor-General Nikolai Grodekov. Its collection of about 500,000 items covers archaeology, nature and the peoples of the Amur, and it has a panorama of the Battle of Volochayevka.
The Far Eastern Art Museum in Khabarovsk opened on 5 July 1931 as the first specialised art museum in the Russian Far East. Its first collection came partly from the Hermitage, the Russian Museum and the Tretyakov Gallery, and it also shows the arts of the native peoples of the Amur.
The Military History Museum of the Eastern Military District opened in Khabarovsk in 1983 and is the only museum of its kind in the Russian Far East. It tells the story of the army in the region, and beside its halls it has an outdoor display of military equipment.
Muravyov-Amursky Street is the main street of Khabarovsk, running along the top of the middle of the three central hills from Lenin Square to Komsomolskaya Square. It is named after the governor-general who founded the post here, and it is lined with old brick buildings, shops and cafes.
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