'village') and the administrative center of Verkhnekhotemlsky Selsoviet Rural Settlement, Fatezhsky District, Kursk Oblast, Russia.

Population: 67 (2010 Census);[2] 101 (2002 Census);[6] 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.

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),[8] 33 km from the nearest railway halt Bukreyevka[9] (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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