Pugachyovskaya,_Volgograd_Oblast

Pugachyovskaya, Volgograd Oblast

Pugachyovskaya, Volgograd Oblast

Stanitsa in Volgograd Oblast, Russia

Pugachyovskaya (Russian: Пугачёвская) is a rural locality (a stanitsa) and the administrative center of Pugachyovskoye Rural Settlement, Kotelnikovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 654 as of 2010.[2] There are 12 streets.[3]

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It is named after Yemelyan Pugachev, an ataman of the Yaik Cossacks who was born in this village. He is famous for having led a great popular insurrection during the reign of Catherine the Great.[4] The original name "Zimoveyskaya" was changed after his defeat to Potemkinskaya. In 1917, following the October Revolution, it was renamed in his honor.

Geography

Pugachyovskaya is located on the east bank of the Tsimlyansk Reservoir, 50 km north of Kotelnikovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Primorsky is the nearest rural locality.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    Пугачевская станица на карте
  2. [2]
    Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Численность населения городских округов, муниципальных районов, городских и сельских поселений, городских и сельских населённых пунктов Волгоградской области
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    Пугачевская станица на карте
  4. [4]
    McGrigor, Mary (2013-03-08). The Tsar's Doctor. Birlinn. ISBN 9780857905642.
  5. [5]
    Расстояние от Котельникова до Пугачевской

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