Verkhny Khoteml
human settlement in Fatezhsky District, Kursk Oblast, Russia
Verkhny Khoteml (Russian: Верхний Хотемль) is a rural locality (Russian: деревня, lit. 'village') and the administrative center of Verkhnekhotemlsky Selsoviet Rural Settlement, Fatezhsky District, Kursk Oblast, Russia. Population: 67 (2010 census); 101 (2002 census);
Geography
The village is located on the Verkhny Khoteml Brook (a link tributary of the Usozha in the basin of the Svapa), 101 km from the Russia–Ukraine border, 37 km north-west of Kursk, 8 km south of the district center – the town Fatezh.
Climate
Verkhny Khoteml has a warm-summer humid continental climate (Dfb in the Köppen climate classification).
Transport
Verkhny Khoteml is located 2 km from the federal route M-2 Crimea Highway as part of the European route E105, 9.5 km from the road of regional importance 38K-038 (Fatezh – Dmitriyev), 28.5 km from the road 38K-018 (Kursk – Ponyri), 4 km from the road 38K-039 (Fatezh – 38K-018), on the road of intermunicipal significance 38H-181 (M2 "Crimea Highway" – Verkhny Khoteml), 33 km from the nearest railway halt Bukreyevka (railway line Oryol – Kursk).
The rural locality is situated 40 km from Kursk Vostochny Airport, 159 km from Belgorod International Airport and 231 km from Voronezh Peter the Great Airport.
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Sources
Губернатор Курской области. Постановление №489 от 6 ноября 2008 г. «Об утверждении реестра административно-территориальных единиц населённых пунктов Курской области», в ред. Постановления №26-пг от 29 января 2013 г. «О внесении изменений и дополнений в Постановление Губернатора Курской области от 06.11.2008 №489 "Об утверждении реестра административно-территориальных единиц населённых пунктов Курской области"».
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