Nizhnemakhovo (Russian: Нижнемахово) is a village in western Russia, in Sudzhansky District of Kursk Oblast.

Nizhnemakhovo
Нижнемахово
Location of Nizhnemakhovo
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Nizhnemakhovo is located in Kursk Oblast
Nizhnemakhovo
Nizhnemakhovo
Location of Nizhnemakhovo
Nizhnemakhovo is located in Russia
Nizhnemakhovo
Nizhnemakhovo
Nizhnemakhovo (Russia)
Coordinates: 51°5′N 35°29′E / 51.083°N 35.483°E / 51.083; 35.483
CountryRussia
Federal subjectKursk Oblast
Administrative districtSudzhansky District
SelsovietVorobzha
Population
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238
Time zoneUTC+3 (MSK Edit this on Wikidata[2])
Postal code(s)[3]
307826Edit this on Wikidata
OKTMO ID38640415106

Geography

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The village is located in the southwest of Kursk Oblast, at about 9.5 kilometres (5.9 mi) from the Russian-Ukrainian border, in the southwestern part of the Central Russian Upland, in the forest steppe zone, on the right bank of the Vorozhba River, at road 38K-028, at a distance of about 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) (in a straight line) southeast of the town of Sudzha, the administrative centre of the district. The absolute height is 147 metres above sea level.

History

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Russian invasion of Ukraine

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The settlement came under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the middle of August 2024 as part of the August 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1 [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года [2010 All-Russia Population Census] (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service.
  2. ^ "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). 3 June 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  3. ^ Почта России. Информационно-вычислительный центр ОАСУ РПО. (Russian Post). Поиск объектов почтовой связи (Postal Objects Search) (in Russian)
  4. ^ Kateryna Stepanenko; Christina Harward; Riley Bailey; Angelica Evans; Frederick W. Kagan (17 August 2024). "Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 17, 2024". understandingwar.org. ISW. Retrieved 18 August 2024. Russian milbloggers also claimed that Ukrainian forces recently advanced northeast of Sudzha in Mykhailovka and southeast of Sudzha in Ulanok and Nizhnemakhovo and that fighting is ongoing southeast of Sudzha along the Kamyshnoye-Krupets-Giri line.