Shchetinka (russian: links=no, Щетинка) is a rural locality () and the administrative center of Shchetinsky Selsoviet Rural Settlement,

Kursky District Kursky District is the name of several administrative and municipal districts in Russia: *Kursky District, Kursk Oblast, an administrative and municipal district of Kursk Oblast Kursk Oblast ( rus, Курская область, r=Kurskaya ob ...

Kursk Oblast Kursk Oblast ( rus, Курская область, r=Kurskaya oblast, p=ˈkurskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, ...

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. Population:

Geography

The village is located on the

Tuskar River Tuskar is a river in the Kursk Oblast of Russia and the third largest tributary of the Seym. Part of the greater Dnieper basin, the mouth of the river is located in the city of Kursk. The small river Kur The ancient Mesopotamian underworld ...

(a right tributary of the

Seym The Seim (also transcribed as Seym and Sejm, in ; ) is a west-flowing river in Russia and Ukraine. Its length is (250 km within Ukraine) and its basin area about . It is the largest tributary of the Desna. Places on the river are: Kursk, Kurch ...

), 97 km from the Russia–Ukraine border, at the northern border of the district center – the town

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 ...

. ; Streets There are the following streets in the locality: Energetikov, Lugovaya, Osennyaya, Rechnaya and Rozhdestvenskaya (245 houses). ; Climate Shchetinka 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

Köppen climate classification The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems. It was first published by German-Russian climatologist Wladimir Köppen (1846–1940) in 1884, with several later modifications by Köppen, notabl ...

Transport

Shchetinka is located 7 km from the federal route Crimea Highway (a part of the European route ), on the road of regional importance (Kursk –

Ponyri Ponyri (russian: Поныри) is the name of several inhabited localities in Kursk Oblast, Russia. ;Urban localities *Ponyri, Ponyrovsky District, Kursk Oblast, a work settlement in Ponyrovsky District ;Rural localities *Ponyri, Fatezhsky Dist ...

), 1 km from the nearest railway halt ''4 km'' (railway line Kursk – 146 km). The rural locality is situated 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 ...

, 128 km from Belgorod International Airport and 207 km from Voronezh Peter the Great Airport.

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* * Rural localities in Kursky District, Kursk Oblast {{Kursky-geo-stub