En Name: | Otradny |
Ru Name: | Отрадный |
Coordinates: | 53.3667°N 72°W |
Map Label Position: | top |
Image Coa: | Coat of Arms of Otradny (Samara oblast).png |
Federal Subject: | Samara Oblast |
Adm City Jur: | town of oblast significance of Otradny |
Adm Ctr Of: | town of oblast significance of Otradny |
Inhabloc Cat: | Town |
Urban Okrug Jur: | Otradny Urban Okrug |
Mun Admctr Of: | Otradny Urban Okrug |
Pop 2010Census: | 48356 |
Pop 2010Census Rank: | 329th |
Current Cat Date: | 1956 |
Otradny (Russian: Отра́дный) is a town in Samara Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Bolshoy Kinel River (Samara's tributary), 91km (57miles) east of Samara. Population:
The settlement of Otradnoye (Russian: Отра́дное) was founded in the beginning of the 1920s by the peasants of the village of Chernovka. In 1946, an oil-extracting settlement of Mukhanovo (Russian: Муханово) was established nearby, and in 1947 it was granted urban-type settlement status and renamed Otradny. It grew and absorbed the settlement of Otradnoye, and in 1956 it was granted town status.[1]
Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is incorporated as the town of oblast significance of Otradny—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.[2] As a municipal division, the town of oblast significance of Otradny is incorporated as Otradny Urban Okrug.[3]