Pogranichny, Primorsky Krai


Pogranichny is an urban locality and the administrative center of Pogranichny District of Primorsky Krai, Russia, located east of the China–Russia border and northwest of Vladivostok. Population:

History

Pogranichny was founded by the Orenburg Cossacks from the fist Host district, in 1898, as Grodekovo railway station, named after Nikolay Ivanovich Grodekov, Governor General of Priamurye. The settlement was given its present name – which means "border " – in 1958.

Cross-border rail traffic

The railway station in Pogranichny is the first one east of the Sino-Russian border on the Harbin–Ussuriysk branch of the former Chinese Eastern Railway, the "Trans Manchurian Line". There are currently no through passenger trains between Harbin and Ussuriysk; however, two local trains daily in each direction connect Suifenhe to Pogranichny. The 27-km journey takes around 1 hour and 25 minutes.

Climate

Pogranichny has a humid continental climate, with very cold and dry winters and very warm and wet summers.

Notable people

Russian actor Leonid Yarmolnik and Mayor of Barnaul Vladimir Kolganov were born in Grodekovo. Russian poet Arseny Nesmelov died here.