Pogranichny () is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Pogranichny District of Primorsky Krai, Russia, located east of the China–Russia border and northwest of Vladivostok. Population:
History In 1898 Orenburg Cossacks from the first Host district founded the Grodekovo () railway station, named after , Governor General of Priamurye (in office: 1898–1902). The settlement received its present name, "Pogranichny" – which means "border (town)" – in 1958.Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian) - "Пограничный (до 1958 — Гродеково) посёлок городского типа, центр Пограничного района Приморского края РСФСР. Расположен на р. Нестеровка. Ж.-д. станция (Гродеково) в 97 км к С.-З. от Уссурийска. Предприятия по обслуживанию транспорта, консервный завод и маслозавод."
Cross-border rail traffic
The (still called Grodekovo for railway purposes) is the first one east of the Sino-Russian border on the Harbin–Ussuriysk (for Vladivostok) branch of the former Chinese Eastern Railway, the "Trans Manchurian Line". There are currently (December 2013) no through passenger trains between Harbin and Ussuriysk; however, two local trains daily in each direction connect Suifenhe (the last Chinese station on the western side of the border) to Pogranichny. The 27-km journey takes around 1 hour and 25 minutes.Russian Railways schedules at http://eng.rzd.ru/statice/public/en?STRUCTURE_ID=4129
Climate Pogranichny has a humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification Dwb), with very cold and dry winters and very warm and wet summers.
Notable people Russian actor Leonid Yarmolnik and Mayor of Barnaul were born in Grodekovo. Russian poet died here.
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