Selikhino ( rus, Селихино) is a

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(a '' selo'') in Komsomolsky District of Khabarovsk Krai,

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. Population:

Geography

Selikhino is located by lake Khummi,Water of Russia - Khummi
/ref> on the Baikal-Amur Mainline railway, shortly after the railway leaves Komsomolsk-on-Amur towards Sovetskaya Gavan.

History

Selikhino was the junction station for a railway built in the early 1950s by the

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under

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, intended to link to a tunnel to the island of Sakhalin. Construction of the tunnel was abandoned after Stalin's death; however, the railway had already been built as far as Chyorny Mys; this section was kept open for logging industry traffic until the 1990s.

References

{{Authority control Rural localities in Khabarovsk Krai