Sudzha

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Sudzha

Total population

4,941

Coordinates51.19°, 35.27°

Demographic figures from Rosstat. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Sudzha is a town and the administrative center of Sudzhansky District in Kursk Oblast, Russia, located on the Sudzha and Oleshnya rivers 105 kilometers (65 mi) southwest of Kursk, the administrative center of the oblast. It has a population of 5,127 people. It is the natural gas exchange feeder where the Trans-Siberian pipeline meets the Brotherhood pipeline. The town was occupied by Ukrainian forces between August 15, 2024, and March 12, 2025, as a result of an incursion into the region.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Mikhail Gurevich

Soviet aircraft designer (1893–1976)

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Aleksandr Altynnikov

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Vasily Bogomazov

painter (1868-1948)

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Pyotr Vinichenko

Viktor Zavarzin

Russian politician

Mitrofan Mikhaĭlovich Klevenskiĭ

scientist (1877–1939)

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Pyotr Kotelnikov

Russian mathematician (1809–1879)

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Mitrofan Levchenko

Russian historian (1890–1955)

Petr Konstantinovich Likhin

Russian and Soviet painter (1879-1967)

Yevgeny Maksimov

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Vladimir Peregudov

actor

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B. G. Skramtaev

Leonid Solomatkin

Russian artist (1837-1883)

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Nikolai Lukyanchikov

Russian ice hockey player

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Galina Sanko

Soviet photojournalist (1904–1981)

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Vladimir Mikhaĭlovich Brakhnov

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

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