Platava, Kursk Oblast

Platava (Платава) is a rural locality (деревня) in Platavsky Selsoviet Rural Settlement, Konyshyovsky District, Kursk Oblast, Russia. Population:

Geography
The village is located on the Platavka River (a left tributary of the Svapa River), 46 km from the Russia–Ukraine border, 74 km west of Kursk, 12 km south-west of the district center – the urban-type settlement Konyshyovka, 3 km from the selsoviet center – Kashara.

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

Transport
Platava is located 44 km from the federal route Ukraine Highway, 57 km from the route  Crimea Highway, 34 km from the route  (Trosna – M3 highway), 28 km from the road of regional importance  (Fatezh – Dmitriyev), 13 km from the road  (Konyshyovka – Zhigayevo – 38K-038), 18 km from the road  (Dmitriyev – Beryoza – Menshikovo – Khomutovka), 8 km from the road  (Lgov – Konyshyovka), 7 km from the road of intermunicipal significance  (Konyshyovka – Makaro-Petrovskoye, with the access road to the villages of Belyayevo and Chernicheno), on the road  (38N-144 – Shustovo – Korobkino), 11 km from the nearest railway halt Maritsa (railway line Navlya – Lgov-Kiyevsky).

The rural locality is situated 81 km from Kursk Vostochny Airport, 163 km from Belgorod International Airport and 284 km from Voronezh Peter the Great Airport.