The city of Svobodny is located on the territory of the Amur region and is part of it. The city has a coastal location ( Zeya River ). It occupies the status of the administrative center of the Svobodnensky district, which was formed around the city. Studying Svobodny on a map of Russia, you can see that the city does not become part of the Svobodnensky district, but is the center of the formation of another district - Svobodny.
The city is one of three cities with a high population in the Amur region. The year of foundation of the city dates back to 1912. At the time of its formation it had a different name - Alekseevsk. In 1917 the city was renamed Svobodny.
Svobodny on the map of Russia: geography, nature and climate
Geographically, the city is located on the right bank of the Zeya River . The area of the city on the satellite map of Svobodny is 225 km2. The city includes the River Station, as well as 2 railway stations:
- Free.
- Mikhailo-Chesnokovskaya.
The city serves as a transport interchange and transport hub for railway, water and road transport. The Svobodnensky district is of particular importance - it includes the Vostochny cosmodrome.
The city is divided into two parts - industrial and residential areas. The residential part of the city is 20 km2. The industrial area is located along the Mikhailo-Chesnokovskaya railway station . Here the city is divided into several districts:
- Shock.
- Soviet.
- Dubovka.
Cold weather prevails in the city. The coldest month of the year is January; the temperature during this period drops to -28 degrees. Precipitation is quite rare, which ensures the city has a dry climate and harsh winters. Precipitation levels in winter are less than 10% of the annual norm.
In summer, most of the precipitation falls in Svobodny and strong gusty winds prevail, which even at high temperatures creates a feeling of chilliness. The month with the least rainfall is July. This weather behavior is characterized by winds that blow from the shores of the Pacific Ocean.
The cold comes to Svobodny early - at the end of August, cold weather with frosts sets in.
Routes on the map of Svobodny. Transport connection
Svobodny is located 146 km away from Blagoveshchensk and performs an important function in the life support of communications in the Amur region. Thus, the city has one of the main interchange railway stations - the Svobodny railway station (Svobodny, Lineinaya Street, 40/1), as well as water and road routes.
Within the city there is a seaport of the same name “ Svobodny ”, which has not been operating for some time.
For highways, Svobodny is of particular importance, since the regional highway P468 Blagoveshchensk - Tsiolkovsky .
Public transport consists of passenger buses, which operate according to a set schedule, and minibuses also operate.
Important! On the Svobodny street map you can see in detail the location of public transport stops.
Svobodny - reviews from those who moved
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Olga
01/28/2022 at 06:24Answer
I came with my husband (for work) from Krasnodar. At first I was invigorated, after all, it was the Far East, we traveled through the whole of Russia, but being free quickly brought me to my senses. On the plus side: there is a sun that really sticks out in the sky, unlike in the north it’s not there for six months at all... The sun lifts your spirits. So, you still need to think about where the other advantages are. That's it, they are not there. Let's move on to the disadvantages: Prices: prices compared to the European part of Russia have been raised by 30-50 percent, in particular for food. For example, potatoes 90 rubles kg, eggs 99 rubles, bananas 160 rubles, apples 230 rubles (you still need to find 150 each), meat 700 rubles, chicken breast 320 rubles kg, sugar 65, bread from 35 to 40 rolls, carrots 150, and for 100 if you find it - well, lucky. And so on for everything! Product quality: China, Kazakhstan, local, expensive. Store-bought cakes (Cooking from supers) are inedible and there is no alternative at all. Mushrooms, tomatoes, garlic, Chinese zucchini, very suspicious in cooking. Online stores: Ozone promises to deliver orders within a month with delivery for each unit of goods 320 rubles on top (warehouses are far away!) Vailberry also delivers in 2-3 weeks. Ordinary stores: things like in Moscow shopping centers, from 3 tr, and as if China is not nearby at all. At the same time, they promise 35 rubles for a sales position (advertisements hang on the doors)… The salary for locals is the same as in Europe, but life is expensive. Communication: compared to the European part of the Russian Federation, the same tariff here is raised by 30 percent somewhere (if you select a region on the website, you can see the difference), coverage in the city, in the center is not very good Water: the water is brown, smelly. You rinse a mug, pour a bottle of water, and it stinks... And your hands stink after washing, and even if you boil eggs in it, they stink too. Bottled water isn't always good either, depending on the brand. I read that there is a lot of iron in the water here, and they can’t fix it)
Architecture: barracks, a few new houses. But Soviet buildings are reliable, they have been standing for 50 years) they are warm. Everything is gray and nondescript. The price tag for real estate, for rent - space. A damaged one-room apartment costs 45 tr, two-room apartments with cosmetic repairs are at least 65.
There are indeed a lot of stray dogs, as they write below, but they are reluctant to eat bread.
Weather: severe frost, -30 is kind of normal, -17 is already warm. By the time you get back from the store - wow! Shopping center: local - dwarf. The largest shopping center passage has 4 floors. The rest are closer to Azeri cheap clothing stores. That is, there is nowhere to walk here in winter. True, on the square opposite the String Bag hyper, they installed a Christmas tree and ice sculptures, but in -25 frost you can’t stand there for long, 20 minutes and you’ll freeze.
Hypermarkets and supermarkets. There are 2 bargain brands: string bag and crystal. You can note the delicious bread there, and I wrote about the prices above.
Roads. The roads to Svobodny are just like after the bombing, endless repairs, gravel, dust.
People. The salespeople (women) in the stores are exhausted (I understand them), but there are also those who are not averse to making money (pharmacists, for example) or landlords. Drinking is really popular here, and drunken faces can be seen on the streets + there are a lot of homeless people. But I don’t walk at night, I can’t confirm that they appear at night like ghouls.
Let me summarize. Life here is good for those who have nothing to compare with (and not with the East Far East or Siberia, but with central Russia). In my opinion, this is just survival. It’s just that life itself is gray, like the color of the local houses. Boring, expensive, inedible, dull. A city at the end of the world and the number of people (and on Sundays, like people in St. Petersburg) do not save it. I sincerely feel sorry for the local people, and I can understand why they want to leave here and are not sad if everything works out.
Lara
12/30/2021 at 16:05Answer
Free!!! Please accept it as yours... I beg you...
Larisa
12/27/2021 at 14:47Answer
My God... I read the reviews, and I see the insides of everyone... Some see bird cherry trees and singing birds outside the window, and some see a puddle under a tree. My son lives in Blagoveshchensk, I’ll stay, fortunately I have my own apartment, and I’m eager to go back home. I was also a year ago in Krasnoyarsk and Omsk. I really liked Krasnoyarsk...can't breathe...gas pollution. Before work, and then back from work. ..and it’s already night. What's wrong with Free? There are already so many new roads, houses, there is a swimming pool, there is an indoor skating rink, a huge sports school has been built, a huge entertainment center will be built, and a lot of things... And most importantly, everything is nearby. Such cities are good for families with small children. The neighbors have been renting an apartment for 4 years, my son is 2 minutes from school, because the school is right next to the house, and my daughter goes to kindergarten across the yard of the neighboring house. To nature - 15 minutes and you are on a lake, river or forest. We have the longest children's train...If, of course, you want children and get up yourself at 5 a.m.. Well, live in big cities. Everyone has their own choice. You know, this reminds me of a wife who shits on her husband to everyone, but continues to live with him. They write the word redneck... it’s terrible. I think the one who pronounces it is himself uneducated. Think, choose what you like... but don’t vilify what you live with. And to everyone - happiness and good luck. And I. .I love my little homeland.
Violet
01/28/2022 at 05:23Answer
You know, Larisa, you just haven’t lived in the European part of Russia, where prices are 30-50 percent lower than here, where there are no such terrible frosts, where the distances are not thousands of kilometers and plane prices are like going to the moon, where you can drink tap water through a regular filter, and it is not smelly. This is not life, but survival.
Svetlana
12/25/2021 at 03:45Answer
I’m planning to move to this city. I’m originally from Uzbekistan. I’ve been choosing a city for a long time and am drawn to this city. Those who are not happy with their city... come to Uzbekistan, you will immediately sing differently, you will come back and kiss your native land. I am only dreaming of counting the days when I move. I wish I could quickly. It’s even strange to have such a craving for this city, as if I’ve been there all my life lived.
Larisa
12.27.2021 at 14:48Answer
Move. You will not regret. There are disadvantages, but there are also advantages... everything will be fine
Victor
09.12.2021 at 13:15Answer
That's why we have a mess in our country - because the mess is in our heads. Instead of uniting and solving significant problems, we shit ourselves and look for those to blame. And forever someone owes us something, but we don’t want to do anything ourselves. Remember our history, Our great-grandfathers united and created. And everything was fine with them and they were respected and feared. And now everyone is a “personality”, everyone on their own. And that is why they wipe their feet on Us.
Divide and rule! Gaius Julius Caesar
Galina
09.27.2021 at 10:56Answer
The locals are sympathetic, well, of course they are people everywhere, sometimes they are ill-mannered, rude... but the city is like that. In addition to problems with water, lack of natural gas in apartments and black dust, I would like to add about the strange laziness of the Svobodnaya residents. So much money flows from this city to online stores, including Wildberry, whose chief director in 2022 ranks first in the ranking of the richest women in the world... but local stores do not want to work. They raised the price tags and they sit until 5-6 pm, well, just think about it, isn’t it more profitable to work from noon until late evening than from morning until 5 pm, when all the money is still “flowing” at work. Particularly surprising are stores that do not work on Sundays or are open until lunch. On this day or two, choose any weekday and make it a day off, if it is not possible to hire several shifts of employees so that they alternate their working weekends according to the schedule. As a result, huge sums of money go to online stores, bravo!) The same applies to paid services, such as clinics and beauty and health salons, you lose so much every Sunday. This is my opinion, I hope I didn't offend anyone.
Scum
07/15/2021 at 06:18Answer
Above in the photo is Blagoveshchensk actually. Yes, the people here are filthy, you feel like you grew up in a barn or barn. In the evening and at night, the zombie apocalypse begins, local orcs come to life! There were camps here before, whatever you want. Typical Russia, there’s nothing to write about, I’m slowly rotting here, the only place I can go is the cemetery. Possible at night. That's it, the whole review
Local
12.12.2021 at 05:15Answer
People went through the camps and remained people. The orcs arrived, climbed down from the tree, and some didn’t climb down... they tell how they lived well on the tree, offended by life in their native places.
Tatyana
07/12/2021 at 20:59Answer
Maybe someone knows... On Green Lane 7 there was a dorm and a garage in the courtyard. There is a car service center in the garage... It's been gone for a long time. Maybe someone knows the owner. He is now about 60-65 years old. He looked like the singer Yuri Loza... Help me find
Guest
06/29/2021 at 10:04Answer
This is complete rock bottom. Water, air, roads, infrastructure - the bottom. Prices for food and housing are terrible. The locals blame the newcomers for everything. Newcomers raised prices for food and housing. I wonder if local taxes are paid on the rental of destroyed apartments at the Moscow price tag? Judging by what is happening in the city, no one pays any taxes or is interested in where they go.
But the rock bottom is that when they write about the negatives, instead of improving the city and their lives, people get angry with visitors or deny obvious facts.
Rail
05.22.2021 at 17:38Answer
Our city at one time was similar to yours, roads, public transport, culture, places of leisure, etc. d. were in a deplorable state. But with the construction of factories, jobs appeared, they began to receive normal salaries, everything listed was put in order, the city became much cleaner, and now occupies almost the first place in the Tyumen region. As for newcomers, that’s not even bad, people can borrow something from each other, some even come to live with us. I consider this a normal indicator, it means that our city of Tobolsk is developing, which is what I wish for your city!
Nadya
03/21/2021 at 13:51Answer
Good afternoon everyone, can you tell me if there are shops or a hairdresser in the city? What is the best way to get to Blagoveshchensk? Is it possible to get there and back in daylight?
Emilia
04/23/2021 at 10:41Answer
Google to the rescue, because Blagoveshchensk is only 145 km away, and if you go on foot, you will definitely not be able to manage it in one daylight
Violet
01/28/2022 at 05:29Answer
What an ulcer.
Phoenix
02/10/2021 at 14:22Answer
I've been living here for 20 years. Since birth. And nothing has changed over the years. Still a village. It is not a city of presidential attention. There are still lousy roads and sidewalks, lousy public transport. Gas workers go to work on decent buses, and we, the local population, for the most part are forced to go to work/school in these narrow Chinese carts. Roads...It’s probably not worth talking about them. Everyone who has been to this wonderful “city” has already appreciated them. Education. There is exactly 1 institute in the entire village. And it’s hard to understand what’s already going on there. The former technical school building was completely abandoned. This, in my opinion, is one of the most beautiful places in the city. But, I repeat, it is undeservedly abandoned. Well, there are two colleges in the city. Pretty good. You won't find normal clothing stores in the whole city. Everything is China. Everything they sew is small and of poor quality. Also the prices are outrageous. If you want a more or less normal thing, welcome to neighboring Blagoveshchensk. But even there the choice differs only slightly. People. The people here are mostly angry, uncultured, and tactless. They don't know the rules of etiquette. There is no sense of humor at all. Apologizing if you are wrong is quite a feat for a local. There isn't a lot of work here either. If you want to get a normal salary and live more or less normally, go to the gas workers. If you are satisfied with the “it will do” level, then try to get a job somewhere in the city. You will only eat plaster stripped from the walls, because even your salary is not enough to pay for a month’s rent for local housing. And it would be decent on my part to remain silent about the products. Utility bills are also very expensive. There is no shopping center, entertainment, or cultural life here either, which is a HUGE minus for me. I also consider it a minus that there are almost no 24-hour shops here and public transport generally operates no longer than until 20:00. People have different circumstances, you know. Everything is more or less good with catering. The choice of cafes, restaurants, and canteens is quite wide. For different tastes and budgets. I consider the presence of hookah bars here, albeit small, but also a plus. The square in the Mikhailo-Chesnokovsky district is very good. In warm seasons it is quite crowded and beautiful. The city park is also not far behind. But he could use more grooming.
I would like to appeal to the Free People who write that, they say, don’t criticize our city, visitors. If you don't like it, get out. I would like to note that: 1) We ourselves are, to some extent, newcomers. Nobody invited our ancestors here either. They simply took the land from the indigenous people. And they settled. 2) Visiting people (not gas workers, but simply people who came from other parts of Russia) are exactly the same Russians as you, like me. The Amur region and the city of Svobodny are part of the Russian Federation. They have the same right as you and I to criticize the part of THEIR country in which they had to live for one reason or another. 3) This site is dedicated to reviews, if my young memory serves me correctly. So... Should you come here? If you cannot adequately tolerate criticism of the city, you have no place on such sites. That's all I wanted to say. Thank you for your attention.
Galina
03/10/2021 at 08:33Answer
I am a native Amur resident and have lived for a long time, now retired. . Most likely you are a newcomer, and we have plenty of them! This government destroys its youth, although it demands reproduction...with this system it is IMPOSSIBLE.! So you can’t speak badly about the residents, we have well-mannered young people (the majority), they will always give up their place in transport, they will help if anything happens, but you have already brought a lot of visitors, why the hell are you eating - after all, they may not give you a salary, you can get lost, why are you here? pulling?! Hookah bars are not needed at all. and we need places of leisure for young people and teenagers!!! There is none of them!!! The authorities care about stray dogs, not people!!!
Phoenix
03/29/2021 at 02:31Answer
Dear Galina, my ancestors settled in Svobodny from the very foundation of Surazhevka. Before you say that I am a newcomer and do not know the city, read the text I wrote. Anyone can take words out of context. I write this about the people and other things of this city not just because I “arrived”, I didn’t like something here and I became embittered at everything in the world. I write this because I see it with my own eyes every day. There is no need to force your opinion on me. I've had mine for a long time. Formed. If I say that the locals are rednecks, then for me they are rednecks. If I say that local roads will break the devil’s leg. For me this is so... I am glad for your different vision of the situation, but I have my own point of view on this matter.
day
01/21/2021 at 05:06Answer
Gentlemen, no one invited you here, you came, please respect local traditions and keep your opinion about the local population to yourself.
Qwerty
06.28.2021 at 20:15Answer
Hello, what are your traditions, and tell me how, as many write, disrespect for the local population manifests itself?
Larisa
12/18/2020 at 17:02Answer
You know, it’s good everywhere where we are not. The town is small, green, everything is nearby, you don’t have to spend a lot of time going to the store or going somewhere else. With the construction of the gas plant, our city began to be built. Roads and utility networks are being built, all the school stadiums have been equipped, new houses are finally being built... hence the dust, the stinking water... but the local residents are happy about all this. But the newcomers are unhappy because, in addition to big money, they also want good conditions. Gentlemen are good...but you don’t make money here in the slums. Return to your wonderful cities, and live like we do - on 15-20 thousand, and enjoy...Who's stopping you? Personally, I recently visited Krasnoyarsk... Well, it’s a good city... I just can’t breathe... For us, the dust will settle... but you have constant smog. There’s a feeling that you’ve all been hunted down here under arms for a long ruble... Do you think we’re pleased when all sorts of f*cks walk around and spit? Without you, the air was cleaner, and the evenings were calm...
Natalya
12/23/2020 at 06:29Answer
I didn’t see a long ruble here, when recalculated for the same five-day period, the same 15-20 thousand. But it’s scary to walk in the evening, I haven’t seen any drunk visitors, but the local population is something different. And the mentality of the locals is completely frostbitten.
Kostya
04/17/2021 at 07:24Answer
When everything fell apart in the 90s, people began to drink themselves to death, the West was more fortunate, they cleared out, and the rest of the towns collapsed. Moving to the west, the odds are here, the alternative is so-so. Today I came to buy a toy for my daughter, parked the car, and Region 154 pulled up behind me and stood in such a way that I couldn’t get out, and didn’t respond to the remark. What kind of good attitude will visitors give you, rednecks.
Raisa
09/05/2020 at 04:09Answer
I've lived in this city all my life. I'll say this. Local people, on the contrary, are sympathetic and kind. But with the start of construction of the cosmodrome, GZP came from everywhere, and nothing and no one was left of our small town. Out of 100 people, 10 are local, no more. They are just angry, nervous, dissatisfied... The fact is that the city is dusty... but you see that all the stadiums in schools are made using new technology, with a soft surface, with courts for volleyball, football... and this is a lot of sand and gravel imported . Absolutely all pipes are being replaced, sidewalks and roads are being built. Can't you see it? As for the fact that rentals have become expensive... don’t you understand that businessmen have become more active here again... There are no locals anymore... There are only Old People left, and they are moving. In addition to all the delights, the climate has become nasty. Why did you come here? If you don't like it, then go back...
Anastasia
07/15/2020 at 05:39Answer
I would really like to ask the visitors who are trashing my hometown to pack their bags and take the next flight to their country, Muscovy. It's you who are dissatisfied and angry. Accustomed to going to restaurants, spending money left and right and having people bow at your feet. But Svobodny has no entertainment places; it was a quiet, calm town with normal prices and decent people. After the city was filled with visitors due to construction, life became more difficult. Prices have risen, renting an apartment is impossible because they are filled with newcomers. They dirtied everything around and destroyed the roads with a huge flow of cars. I would like to return to the old days, when this Muscovy did not know about our existence. But, alas. And I would like to tell you, critics, to look at yourself and your culture of behavior. They don't like you for your business. For your impudence. And dissatisfaction. Leave here and never come back. We hope to the Empire that you will not be here for long.
Natalya
12/23/2020 at 06:30Answer
Yeah! You can’t praise yourself, no one will praise you.
STEN
03/17/2021 at 11:58Answer
Good day! I’m reading your review and similar ones to yours and laughing)) Before the gas workers it was good)) What’s good?? three paved streets? Dust and dirt all around. Dullness and wretchedness. I practically grew up in Svobodny and happily left there at the age of 27. Now I’m 49 and I’ve been living in Kaliningrad for a long time. Periodically visiting Svobodny, I saw that before the gas workers, NOTHING HAD CHANGED FOR MANY YEARS. The same broken roads and impassable dirt, complete decay. The gas workers will soon finish their work and you will quietly rot in your swamp, albeit with a few good roads and a couple of new houses!!! And the prices for apartments and services were inflated by the free people themselves, not by the visitors!! Although flies also think that a pile of crap is wonderful, since this is their habitat.
Elsa
05/28/2020 at 04:01Answer
This city of Svobodny is a complete mystery. This is not a city, this is a labyrinth of the Middle Ages. Dirt, slush, stink, drunk. There is no talk about culture, the local dialect begins with the words go to x... and ends with x.. I saw you. And guess for yourself where you were sent and where you ended up. Near the city of Taiga, the only place where you can relax culturally and breathe fresh air. The local people are gloomy, wild, hungry and greedy. The name of the city corresponds to the convicts who escaped to freedom. They perceive everything outside this Garbage with hostility, and being away from home in their native Ashes of their dreams, they condemn everyone and everything that is outside its borders. Azerguts who come on “tours”, sad builders, often give performances like we are “the Masters” here. set loose jaws. Because the base of the local city health department is “zero” and the golden hands of desperate surgeons. Everything in this city is covered in fog and mystery. The local budget dissipates into fog, and secrecy covers its evaporated remains.
Vladimir
12/19/2020 at 00:30Answer
» Wild, hungry and greedy. The name of the city corresponds to the convicts who escaped to freedom. They perceive everything outside this Garbage with hostility, and being away from home in their native Ashes of their dreams, they condemn everyone and everything that is outside its borders. “Dear, something is wrong with your Russian grammar..(this is by the way)...Before throwing mud at the city in which I spent my childhood and adolescence (this is by the way)...and where they rest on local cemetery, my many relatives, think about the fact that you are visiting, and you should behave decently, especially if you don’t open your filthy mouth and spread a stench in the native place of my ancestors and friends who still live in this beautiful city. mercy and leave our beautiful city, which has its own history, places dear to the hearts of everyone who lived here. Happiness and prosperity to all residents of the city of Svobodny!
Natalya
12/23/2020 at 06:58Answer
Your opponent, like no one else, clearly conveyed the picture of your city.
Emmochka
06/04/2021 at 09:11Answer
While I was reading, I laughed until I cried)) you have literary talent!
Larisa
12/27/2021 at 15:06Answer
Everything comes from how you behave... I read it - hungry, angry... No one is starving. And as for anger...listen, my husband worked as a surveyor...and they sent a guy from St. Petersburg...and he couldn’t calculate the volume...and this with a higher education!!!! And the husband explained to him on his fingers... only this young man received 2 times more. Because for those from Moscow and St. Petersburg, the salary is at least twice as high. This is fine? But my husband helped him for a month...he thanked me with two bottles of the cheapest wine, which I gave...because we don’t drink that kind of stuff on holidays. And there was no need for it. Because we are happy to help simply from the heart... That's all. But the newcomers are just accustomed... loot... redneck. Here is your upbringing and soul
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