Official Name: | Nizhny Chir |
Native Name: | Нижний Чир |
Settlement Type: | Stanitsa |
Pushpin Map: | Russia Volgograd Oblast#Russia |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Russia |
Subdivision Name1: | Volgograd Oblast |
Subdivision Name3: | Surovikinsky District |
Subdivision Type4: | Municipality |
Utc Offset1: | +4:00 |
Coordinates: | 48.35°N 48°W[1] |
Nizhny Chir (Russian: Нижний Чир) is a rural locality (a stanitsa) and the administrative center of Nizhnechirskoye Rural Settlement, Surovikinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 4,038 as of 2010.[2] There are 66 streets.[3]
Nizhny Chir is located on the right bank of the Chir River, 46 km southeast of Surovikino (the district's administrative centre) by road. Blizhnepodgorsky is the nearest rural locality.[4]