Kikhchik
Kikhchik () is a former urban-type settlement in Ust-Bolsheretsky District, Kamchatka Krai, Far East Russia. It lies on the southwest coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula on the Sea of Okhotsk. Established in 1926 on the river Kikhchik, a fish canning factory was built by the Soviets here and it attained town status in 1940. Kikhchik had a secondary school, two elementary schools, a hospital, a club, a nursery, a kindergarten, three libraries, a canteen, a bakery, a bathhouse, 6 shops and 3 stalls, and an agricultural farm. By 1959 it had a population of 2606, which had declined to 709 by 1970. On August 28, 1972, the settlement of Kikhchik was abandoned.
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Ust-Bolsheretsky District
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Q7948
Kamchatka Krai
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Q993
Kamchatka Peninsula
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Q41602
Sea of Okhotsk
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Q4222541
Kikhchik
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Q4222537
Kikhchik
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Q4222537
Kikhchik
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Q4222537
Kikhchik
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1926-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1926
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1940-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1940
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1959-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1959
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2606-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
2606
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1970-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1970
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1972-08-28T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
August 28, 1972
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+6^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
6
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+3^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
3
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located in the administrative territorial entity
inception
located in the administrative territorial entity
located in or next to body of water