Pallasovka (town) explained

En Name:Pallasovka
Ru Name:Палласовка
Coordinates:50.05°N 99°W
Map Label Position:left
Image Coa:Coat of arms of Pallasovka 2008 (official).png
Federal Subject:Volgograd Oblast
Adm District Jur:Pallasovsky District
Adm Selsoviet Jur:Pallasovka
Adm Selsoviet Type:Town of district significance
Adm Ctr Of1:Pallasovsky District
Adm Ctr Of2:town of district significance of Pallasovka
Inhabloc Cat:Town
Mun District Jur:Pallasovsky Municipal District
Urban Settlement Jur:Pallasovka Urban Settlement
Mun Admctr Of1:Pallasovsky Municipal District
Mun Admctr Of2:Pallasovka Urban Settlement
Pop 2010Census:16081
Established Date:1907
Current Cat Date:1967
Prev Name1:Torgun

Pallasovka (Russian: Палла́совка) is a town and the administrative center of Pallasovsky District in Volgograd Oblast, Russia, located on the Torgun River (which flows into the Volgograd Reservoir), 301km (187miles) northeast of Volgograd, the administrative center of the oblast. Population:

History

It was founded in 1907 as a settlement of Torgun (Russian: Торгунь) servicing the construction of a railway station of the same name. That same year, Torgun was renamed Pallasovka in honor of an academician Peter Pallas (1741–1811), who visited the area in 1773–1774. It was granted town status in 1967.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Pallasovka serves as the administrative center of Pallasovsky District. As an administrative division, it is, together with three rural localities, incorporated within Pallasovsky District as the town of district significance of Pallasovka.

As a municipal division, the territory of Pallasovka is incorporated within Pallasovsky Municipal District as Pallasovka Urban Settlement.[1] The three rural localities are incorporated as Limannoye Rural Settlement of Pallasovsky Municipal District.

The meteorite

Peter Pallas was a famous naturalist who took part in the discovery and the study of the first pallasite, a type of stony-iron meteorite named after him. Coincidentally, Pallasovka is a pallasite meteorite found near the town and named after it.

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Notes and References

  1. Law #982-OD