Official Name: | Vostochnoye |
Native Name: | Восточное |
Settlement Type: | Selo |
Pushpin Map: | Russia Astrakhan Oblast#Russia |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Russia |
Subdivision Name1: | Astrakhan Oblast |
Subdivision Name3: | Ikryaninsky District |
Subdivision Type4: | Municipality |
Utc Offset1: | +4:00 |
Coordinates: | 46.1167°N 87°W[1] |
Восточное (Russian: Восточное) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Vostochny Selsoviet of Ikryaninsky District, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia. The population was 767 as of 2010.[2] There are 15 streets.
Vostochnoye is located 16 km northwest of Ikryanoye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Dzhamba is the nearest rural locality.[3]
Vostochnoye was founded by Kalmyk settlers in the 1930s. Its original name was Kisin-Sharburbä. After all ethnic Kalmyks were forcibly resettled to Siberia in 1943 by Joseph Stalin, it got its current name derived from the Russian word for "Eastern".[4]
In 2021, the local Kalmyk community composed of those who managed to return from the Siberian exile finished the construction of a Buddhist temple (khurul).