Kharabali (russian: Харабали́; kk, Қарабайлы, ''Qarabaıly'') is a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
and the
administrative center
An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune
A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or ...
of
Kharabalinsky District
Kharabalinsky District (russian: Харабали́нский райо́н; kk, Қарабайлы ауданы, ) is an administrativeLaw #67/2006-OZ and municipalLaw #43/2004-OZ district (raion), one of the eleven in Astrakhan Oblast, Russia. I ...
in
Astrakhan Oblast
Astrakhan Oblast (russian: Астраха́нская о́бласть, ''Astrakhanskaya oblast'', , ''Astrakhan oblysy'') is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast) located in southern Russia. Its administrative center ...
,
Russia
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, located on the left bank of the
Akhtuba River
The Akhtuba (russian: А́хтуба); also transliterated ''Achtuba'' on some maps) is a left distributary of the Volga in southern Russia.
The Akhtuba splits off the Volga above the city Volgograd (at ), and flows toward the Volga Delta and C ...
(an arm of the
Volga
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) northwest of
Astrakhan
Astrakhan ( rus, Астрахань, p=ˈastrəxənʲ) is the largest city and administrative centre of Astrakhan Oblast in Southern Russia. The city lies on two banks of the Volga, in the upper part of the Volga Delta, on eleven islands of the ...
, the administrative center of the
oblast
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. Population:
History
It was founded in 1789 as a ''
selo'' of Kharabalinskoye () and was later renamed Kharabali.
Town status was granted to it in 1974.
Administrative and municipal status
Within the
framework of administrative divisions, Kharabali serves as the
administrative center
An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune
A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or ...
of
Kharabalinsky District
Kharabalinsky District (russian: Харабали́нский райо́н; kk, Қарабайлы ауданы, ) is an administrativeLaw #67/2006-OZ and municipalLaw #43/2004-OZ district (raion), one of the eleven in Astrakhan Oblast, Russia. I ...
.
[Law #67/2006-OZ] As an administrative division, it is, together with two
rural localities, incorporated within Kharabalinsky District as the
town of district significance
Town of district significance is an administrative division of a district in a federal subject of Russia. It is equal in status to a selsoviet or an urban-type settlement of district significance, but is organized around a town (as opposed to a ...
of Kharabali.
As a
municipal division, the town of district significance of Kharabali is incorporated within Kharabalinsky Municipal District as Kharabali Urban Settlement.
[Law #43/2004-OZ]
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External links
Official website of KharabaliKharabali Business Directory
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Cities and towns in Astrakhan Oblast