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unusual facts about Belogorsk, Amur Oblast



21st Guards Motor Rifle Division

In 1969 31st Guards Motor Rifle Division was relocated from Kaunas in the Lithuanian SSR (Baltic Military District) to Belogorsk, in the Amur area of the Far East Military District.

Aihui District

It is located on the right (south-western) bank of the Amur River, across which is Blagoveshchensk, Amur Oblast, Russia.

Amur Oblast

Southeast of the Selemdzha are the Bureya and the Arkhara Rivers, which have the richest remaining forests in the oblast with Korean pine, Schisandra chinensis, Mongolian Oak, and other Manchurian flora.

These larch and fir-spruce forests form the watershed of the Selemdzha River, which flows south into the Zeya, continues to the city of Blagoveschchensk, and then into the Amur River.

Amur–Yakutsk Mainline

The line currently has an official length of 1213 km, branching from the Trans-Siberian railway at Bamovskaya station, near Skovorodino in Amur Oblast.

Amursky

Amur Oblast (Amurskaya Oblast), a federal subject of Russia

Belogorsk, Amur Oblast

The town is home to important military elements of the Far Eastern Military District, specifically the headquarters of the 35th Army and the 21st Guards Motor Rifle Division.

Eastern Military District

The federal subjects that are part of the district include Buryatia, the Sakha Republic, the Zabaykalsky Krai, the Kamchatka Krai, the Primorsky Krai, the Khabarovsk Krai, the Amur Oblast, the Magadan Oblast, the Sakhalin Oblast, the Jewish Autonomous Oblast and the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.

OAO Svobodny Railroad Car Repair Plant

Svobodnensky car-repair plant — the enterprice for repair of cars for needs of railway transport, is located in the city Svobodny, the Amur region.

Olorotitan

Tsagayan Formation beds located in Kundur, Amur Region, Far Eastern Russia.

Otto Vasilievich Bremer

He wrote Neue Lepidopteren aus Ost-Sibirien und dem Amur Lande, gesammelt von Radde und Maack, beschrieben von Otto Bremer.

Sergei Solnechnikov

During training exercises on March, 28 at a Far Eastern military base near the town of Belogorsk, major Solnechnikov pushed a soldier away from an unsuccessfully thrown grenade and threw himself over it after it bounced back into the trench they were in with dozens of soldiers standing nearby.


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