En Name: | Argun |
Ru Name: | Аргун |
Loc Name1: | Устрада |
Loc Lang1: | Chechen |
Coordinates: | 43.2944°N 45.8839°W |
Map Label Position: | top |
Image Coa: | Coat of Arms of Argun (Chechnya).svg |
Federal Subject: | Chechen Republic |
Adm City Jur: | town of republic significance of Argun |
Adm Ctr Of: | town of republic significance of Argun |
Inhabloc Cat: | Town |
Urban Okrug Jur: | Argun Urban Okrug |
Mun Admctr Of: | Argun Urban Okrug |
Area Km2: | 28 |
Pop 2010Census: | 29525 |
Argun (Russian: Аргу́н, pronounced as /ru/), also known as Ustrada (Chechen: Устрада-ГӀала, Ustrada-Ġala or Орга-ГӀала, Orga-Ġala) is a town in the Chechen Republic, Russia, located on the Argun River. Population: 22,000 (1968).
In April 2017 the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta documented that Chechen authorities had set up so-called "gay concentration camps", within the town.[1]
Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is incorporated as the town of republic significance of Argun—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.[2] As a municipal division, the town of republic significance of Argun is incorporated as Argun Urban Okrug.[3]
Argun has a humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification: Dfa).