Khabarovsk City View Live Cam

The Transfiguration Cathedral stands on the bluff above the Amur at Khabarovsk, in the far east of Russia. The webcam looks across the square in front of it towards the river.

The cathedral is new, finished in 2004, and at 96 metres it is among the tallest churches in the country. It was built on the edge of the escarpment so that it would be the first thing visible from the water.

The city was founded in 1858 as a military post at the point where the Ussuri joins the Amur, and the Chinese border is thirty kilometres away. The railway bridge downstream, opened in 1916 and over two and a half kilometres long, is on the five-thousand-rouble note.