Pugachyovskaya
Russia /
Volgograd /
Nizhniy Chir /
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/ Russia
/ Volgograd
/ Nizhniy Chir
, 29 km from center (Нижний Чир)
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Rural locality (a stanitsa) and the administrative center of Pugachyovskoye Rural Settlement, Kotelnikovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 654 as of 2010.
It is named after Yemelyan Pugachev, an ataman of the Yaik Cossacks who was born in this village. He is famous for having led a great popular insurrection during the reign of Catherine the Great. The original name "Zimoveyskaya" was changed after his defeat to Potemkinskaya. In 1917, following the October Revolution, it was renamed in his honor.
It is named after Yemelyan Pugachev, an ataman of the Yaik Cossacks who was born in this village. He is famous for having led a great popular insurrection during the reign of Catherine the Great. The original name "Zimoveyskaya" was changed after his defeat to Potemkinskaya. In 1917, following the October Revolution, it was renamed in his honor.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pugachyovskaya,_Volgograd_Oblast
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 48°0'46"N 43°9'46"E
- Shebalino 33 km
- Nizhny Chir 41 km
- Tormosin 42 km
- Donskoy 58 km
- Basakin 70 km
- Verkhnegnutov 74 km
- Oblivskaya 80 km
- Volotsky 82 km
- Lobakin 92 km
- Golubinskaya 98 km
- Tsimlyansk Reservoir 15 km
- Tsimlyansk Reservoir 48 km