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'''Kurshim''', also '''Kurchum''' or '''Kurchim''' ({{lang-kz|Күршім}}) is a [[Village#Central and Eastern Europe|selo]] and administrative center of [[Kurshim District]] of [[East Kazakhstan Region]], [[Kazakhstan]]. Population: {{Kz-census2009|8,490|punct=;}} {{Kz-census1999|10,502|punct=.}}

The [[Kurchum River]] flows past the town and [[Lake Zaysan]] lies to the south.<ref name="SísmicaEngineering1992">{{cite book|author1=Asociación Española de Ingeniería Sísmica|author2=International Association for Earthquake Engineering|title=Proceedings of the Tenth World Conference on Earthquake Engineering: 19–24 July 1992, Madrid, Spain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PEGS9erN1IYC&pg=PA40|accessdate=16 March 2012|year=1992|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-90-5410-060-7|page=40}}</ref><ref name="GM">{{cite map|title= Maps|publisher=[[Google Maps]]}}</ref> The town lies on the road between the villages of [[Altyn Kala]] to the north-west and [[Surulen]] to the east; this road connects with the [[M38 road]] in the southeast which leads to [[Jeminay]] across the Chinese border in [[Xinjiang]]. The town is served by a small airport, [[Kurchum Airport]], and [[Antonov An-2]] biplanes fly in and out of the airport.<ref name="Brummell2008">{{cite book|last=Brummell|first=Paul|title=Bradt Kazakhstan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-2ZAp-TgaSMC&pg=PA215|accessdate=16 March 2012|date=24 October 2008|publisher=Bradt Travel Guides|isbn=978-1-84162-234-7|page=215}}</ref> In late 1989 or early 1990 the town was affected by an earthquake which destroyed the Kurchum Hospital,<ref name="Service1991">{{cite book|author=United States. Foreign Broadcast Information Service|title=Daily Report: Soviet Union|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o5HwAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=16 March 2012|date=1 January 1991|publisher=The Service|page=74}}</ref> amongst other buildings. The landscape around the town is dominated by estuarine plains.

==References==
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{{East Kazakhstan Region}}

[[Category:Populated places in East Kazakhstan Region]]

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