Shirkovo () is a

rural locality In general, a rural area or a countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities. Typical rural areas have a low population density and small settlements. Agricultural areas and areas with forestry are typically describ ...

() in Kosteltsevsky Selsoviet Rural Settlement,

Kurchatovsky District Kurchatovsky District is the name of several administrative and municipal districts in Russia. Districts of the federal subjects * Kurchatovsky District, Kursk Oblast, an administrative and municipal district of Kursk Oblast City divisions *Kur ...

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. Population:

Geography

The village is located on the Prutishche River 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. The Sejm has been the highest governing body of the Third Polish Republic since the transition of government ...

, from the

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, north-west 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 ...

, north of the district center – the town Kurchatov, from the selsoviet center – Kosteltsevo. ; Climate Shirkovo 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 cold ...

(''Dfb'' in the

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Transport

Shirkovo is located 23 km from the federal route Crimea Highway, 22 km from the road of regional importance (

–

Lgov Lgov () is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia. ;Urban localities * Lgov, Kursk Oblast, a town in Kursk Oblast ;Rural localities * Lgov, Khotynetsky District, Oryol Oblast, a '' selo'' in Ilyinsky Selsoviet of Khotynetsky Distric ...

– Rylsk – border with Ukraine), 20.5 km from the road (Lgov – Konyshyovka), on the road of intermunicipal significance (38K-017 – Nikolayevka – Shirkovo), 22 km from the nearest railway halt ''Kurchatow'' (railway line Lgov I — Kursk). The rural locality is from

Kursk Vostochny Airport Kursk Vostochny Airport () , also known as Khalino airbase, Kursk-Khalino, is an interceptor aircraft base in Kursk Oblast, Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of c ...

, 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 from Voronezh Peter the Great Airport.

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