In 1858, a Russian military settlement wasfounded and named Khabarovka in honour of Erofei Khabarov, the cossack explorer, whose statue now stands in the railway station square. Until the Trans-Siberian Railway arrived, the town was just a trading and military post. Today, Khabarovsk is one of the most vital cities in the Russian Far East with a population of 650,000.
It is comfortably located in longitude 135 - 135.15 degrees East (the same as Port Lincoln, South Australia) and in latitude 48.20 - 48.40 degrees North (the same as Munich, Germany).
