Kikhchik

Kikhchik (Russian: Кихчик) is a former urban-type settlement in Ust-Bolsheretsky District, Kamchatka Krai, Far East Russia.

It lies on the southwest coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula on the Sea of Okhotsk.

Established in 1926 on the river Kikhchik, a fish canning factory was built by the Soviets here and it attained town status in 1940.

[1] Kikhchik had a secondary school, two elementary schools, a hospital, a club, a nursery, a kindergarten, three libraries, a canteen, a bakery, a bathhouse, 6 shops and 3 stalls, and an agricultural farm.

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