Medvenka () is an
urban locality (an
urban-type settlement
Urban-type settlement, abbreviated: ; , abbreviated: ; ; ; ; . is an official designation for lesser urbanized settlements, used in several Central and Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern European countries. The term was primarily used in the So ...
) in
Medvensky District
Medvensky District () is an administrativeResolution #489 and municipalLaw #48-ZKO district (raion), one of the twenty-eight in Kursk Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southern central part of the oblast. The area of the district is . Its admin ...
of
Kursk Oblast
Kursk Oblast (, ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Kursk. As of the 2021 Russian census, 2021 census, Kursk Oblast had a pop ...
,
Russia
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. Population:
Geography
The settlement is located on the Medvenka (a.k.a. ''Medvensky Kolodez'') Brook (a left tributary of the Polnaya in the basin of the
Seym
The Sejm (), officially known as the Sejm of the Republic of Poland (), is the lower house of the bicameral parliament of Poland.
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), 65 km from the
Russia–Ukraine border
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, 33 km south of
Kursk
Kursk (, ) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Kursk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Kur (Kursk Oblast), Kur, Tuskar, and Seym (river), Seym rivers. It has a population of
Kursk ...
.
; Streets
There are the following streets in the locality: 1st Maya, Beryozovaya, Cheptsova, pereulok F. Engelsa, Gagarina, pereulok Gazovy, Ivana Kozheduba, K. Marksa, Kirova, Kolkhoznaya, Komsomolskaya, pereulok Kooperativny, pereulok Kutuzova, pereulok Lenina, Lenina, M. Gorkogo, Magistralnaya, Marata, Molodyozhnaya, pereulok Nakhimova, Parkovaya, Pevneva, Ploshchad Geroyev, Polevaya, 2nd Polevaya, Pochtovaya, Proletarskaya, Promyshlennaya, 2nd Promyshlennaya, pereulok Promyshlenny, Raduzhnaya, Sadovaya, pereulok Shkolny, Sovetskaya, Sovkhoznaya, Solnechnaya, pereulok Suvorova, Uspenskaya, pereulok Vatutina, Konstantina Vorobyova, Yuzhnaya, pereulok Zavodskoy and Zelyonaya (1464 houses).
; Climate
Medvenka has a warm-summer
humid continental climate
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(''Dfb'' in the
Köppen climate classification
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).
Transport
Medvenka is located on the federal route Crimea Highway (a part of the European route ), on the roads of intermunicipal significance: (M2 "Crimea Highway" –
Gakhovo), (M2 "Crimea Highway" –
Leninskaya Iskra –
Vysokoye), (M2 "Crimea Highway" –
Polevaya), (M2 "Crimea Highway" –
Polny – 38N-236) and (M2 "Crimea Highway" –
Sadovy), 26 km from the nearest railway halt ''457 km''
(railway line Lgov I — Kursk).
The locality is situated 39.5 km from
Kursk Vostochny Airport
Kursk Vostochny Airport () , also known as Khalino airbase, Kursk-Khalino, is an interceptor aircraft base in Kursk Oblast, Russia
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, 91 km from
Belgorod International Airport
Belgorod International Airport () is an airport in Russia located 4 km north of Belgorod. It services narrow-body airliners (such as the Tupolev Tu-154, Tupolev Tu-204, Ilyushin Il-76, Boeing 737, Airbus A320, Boeing 757 etc.) and wide-body ...
and 220 km from
Voronezh Peter the Great Airport.
References
Urban-type settlements in Kursk Oblast
Oboyansky Uyezd
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