Khvoynaya (russian: Хво́йная) is an urban locality (a work settlement) and the

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Khvoyninsky District Khvoyninsky District (russian: Хвойнинский район) is an administrativeLaw #559-OZ and municipalLaw #396-OZ district (raion), one of the twenty-one in Novgorod Oblast, Russia. It is located in the northeast of the oblast and borders ...

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, located at the

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of the

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and

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s. Municipally, it is incorporated as Khvoyninskoye Urban Settlement, the only urban settlement in the district. Population:

History

The settlement of Khvoynaya was founded in 1927 to serve the station on the railroad connecting

Sonkovo Sonkovo (russian: Сонко́во) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Sonkovsky District of Tver Oblast, Russia. Population: History Founded by the Russian Greek Orthodox Inkeriköt (Izhorians) in t ...

and

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. The name in

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means "in the needle-trees" and was given because the station was located in the pine forest. After August 1, 1927 it was part of Minetsky District of

Borovichi Okrug Borovichi (russian: Боровичи́) is the list of cities and towns in Russia by population, second largest types of inhabited localities in Russia, town in Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the Msta River in the northern spurs of the Va ...

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. On July 23, 1930 the okrugs were abolished, and the districts became directly subordinate to the oblast. On June 8, 1931 the district center was transferred to Khvoynaya, and the district was renamed into Khvoyninsky District. On August 20, 1935 Khvoynaya was granted the status of an urban-type settlement. On July 5, 1944, Khvoyninsky District was transferred to newly established Novgorod Oblast and remained there ever since, with a brief interruption between 1963 and 1965, when the district was abolished as a part of aborted Khrushchyov administrative reform.

Economy

Industry

There are enterprises of timber industry and food industry in Khvoynaya.

Transportation

Khvoynaya was founded as a railway station on the railroad connecting

and

. Later, the

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was transferred to Khvoynaya. Roads connect Khvoynaya to

Borovichi Borovichi (russian: Боровичи́) is the second largest town in Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the Msta River in the northern spurs of the Valdai Hills, east of Veliky Novgorod, the administrative center of the oblast. As of the ...

and

Lyubytino Lyubytino (russian: Любы́тино) is an urban locality (a work settlement) and the administrative center of Lyubytinsky District of Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the Msta River. Municipally, it serves as the administrative center of ...

. There are also local roads.

Culture and recreation

Khvoynaya hosts the Khvoyninsky District Museum, the only museum in the district.

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* * * {{Use mdy dates, date=August 2012 Urban-type settlements in Novgorod Oblast Borovichsky Uyezd