Bolshoye Zhirovo (russian: links=no, Большое Жирово) is a rural locality () and the administrative center of Bolshezhirovsky Selsoviet Rural Settlement,

Fatezhsky District Fatezhsky District (russian: Фате́жский райо́н) is an administrativeResolution #489 and municipalLaw #48-ZKO district (raion), one of the twenty-eight in Kursk Oblast, Russia. It is located in the north of the oblast. The area of t ...

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. Population:

Geography

The village is located 100 km from the Russia–Ukraine border, 29 km north-west of

Kursk Kursk ( rus, Курск, p=ˈkursk) is a city and the administrative center of Kursk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Kur, Tuskar, and Seym rivers. The area around Kursk was the site of a turning point in the Soviet–German stru ...

, 15 km south-east of the district center – the town

Fatezh Fatezh (russian: Фате́ж) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town and the administrative center of Fatezhsky District in Kursk Oblast, Russia, located on thUsozha River north of Kursk, the administrative center of the oblast. Popul ...

. ; Climate Bolshoye Zhirovo has a warm-summer

humid continental climate A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and freezing ...

(''Dfb'' in the

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Transport

Bolshoye Zhirovo is located on the federal route Crimea Highway as part of the European route E105, 17 km from the road of regional importance (Fatezh –

Dmitriyev Dmitriyev or Dmitriev (russian: Дми́триев) is a common Russian surname that is derived from the male given name Dmitry and literally means ''Dmitry's''. It may refer to: * Aleksandr Dmitriyev (conductor) (born 1935), Russian conductor * Al ...

), on the road of intermunicipal significance (Bolshoye Zhirovo – Skripeyevka – Kutasovka), 25 km from the nearest railway halt ''521 km'' (railway line Oryol – Kursk). The rural locality is situated 31.5 km from

Kursk Vostochny Airport Kursk Vostochny Airport (russian: Аэропорт Курск-Восточный) , also known as Khalino, Kursk-Khalino, is an interceptor aircraft base in Kursk Oblast, Russia, located 7 km east of Kursk. It is a medium-sized base 4 miles n ...

, 151 km from Belgorod International Airport and 225 km from Voronezh Peter the Great Airport.

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* * Rural localities in Fatezhsky District Fatezhsky Uyezd {{Fatezhsky-geo-stub