Zhigayevo (russian: links=no, Жигаево) is a
rural locality () in Vablinsky Selsoviet Rural Settlement,
Konyshyovsky District
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Kursk Oblast
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Russia
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Geography
The village is located on the Zhigayevka River (a left tributary of the Svapa River), 75.5 km from the
Russia–Ukraine border, 62 km north-west of
Kursk
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, 25 km north-west of the district center – the urban-type settlement
Konyshyovka, 10.5 km from the selsoviet center –
Vablya.
; Climate
Zhigayevo 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
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Transport
Zhigayevo is located 24 km from the federal route
Crimea Highway, 5 km from the road of regional importance (
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 ...
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Dmitriyev
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* Aleksandr Dmitriyev (conductor) (born 1935), Russian conductor
* Al ...
), on the road (Konyshyovka – Zhigayevo – 38K-038), 17.5 km from the nearest railway station ''Sokovninka''
(railway line Navlya – Lgov-Kiyevsky).
The rural locality is situated 61.5 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 ...
, 169 km from
Belgorod International Airport and 257 km from
Voronezh Peter the Great Airport.
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Rural localities in Konyshyovsky District
Dmitriyevsky Uyezd
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