Bolshoye Zhirovo

Bolshoye Zhirovo (Большое Жирово) is a rural locality (село) and the administrative center of Bolshezhirovsky Selsoviet Rural Settlement, Fatezhsky District, Kursk Oblast, Russia. Population:

Geography
The village is located 100 km from the Russia–Ukraine border, 29 km north-west of Kursk, 15 km south-east of the district center – the town Fatezh.

Bolshoye Zhirovo has a warm-summer humid continental climate (Dfb in the Köppen climate classification).
 * Climate

Transport
Bolshoye Zhirovo is located on the federal route Crimea Highway as part of the European route E105, 17 km from the road of regional importance  (Fatezh – Dmitriyev), on the road of intermunicipal significance  (Bolshoye Zhirovo – Skripeyevka – Kutasovka), 25 km from the nearest railway halt 521 km (railway line Oryol – Kursk).

The rural locality is situated 31.5 km from Kursk Vostochny Airport, 151 km from Belgorod International Airport and 225 km from Voronezh Peter the Great Airport.