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:
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.
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.
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.