Krasny Kut (russian: Кра́сный Кут, lit. ''beautiful place'') is a

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and the

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Krasnokutsky District Krasnokutsky District (russian: Красноку́тский райо́н) is an administrativeCharter of Saratov Oblast and municipalLaw #78-ZSO district (raion), one of the thirty-eight in Saratov Oblast, Russia. It is located in the south of th ...

Saratov Oblast Saratov Oblast (russian: Сара́товская о́бласть, ''Saratovskaya oblast'') is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in the Volga Federal District. Its administrative center is the types of ...

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, located on the right bank of the

Yeruslan River Yeruslan (russian: Еруслан) is a river Saratov Oblast and Volgograd Oblast, Russia, a left tributary of the Volga. It is long, and its drainage basin covers .Volga The Volga (; russian: Во́лга, a=Ru-Волга.ogg, p=ˈvoɫɡə) is the List of rivers of Europe#Rivers of Europe by length, longest river in Europe. Situated in Russia, it flows through Central Russia to Southern Russia and into the Cas ...

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), southeast of

Saratov Saratov (, ; rus, Сара́тов, a=Ru-Saratov.ogg, p=sɐˈratəf) is the largest city and administrative center of Saratov Oblast, Russia, and a major port on the Volga River upstream (north) of Volgograd. Saratov had a population of 901,36 ...

, the administrative center of the

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. Population:

History

It was founded in 1837 by

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migrants and was granted town status in 1966.

Cosmonaut An astronaut (from the Ancient Greek (), meaning 'star', and (), meaning 'sailor') is a person trained, equipped, and deployed by a human spaceflight program to serve as a commander or crew member aboard a spacecraft. Although generally r ...

Gherman Titov Gherman Stepanovich Titov (russian: Герман Степанович Титов; 11 September 1935 – 20 September 2000) was a Soviet cosmonaut who, on 6 August 1961, became the second human to orbit the Earth, aboard Vostok 2, preceded by Yu ...

landed near Krasny Kut at the end of his

Vostok 2 Vostok 2 (russian: Восток-2, ''Orient 2'' or ''East 2'') was a Soviet space mission which carried cosmonaut Gherman Titov into orbit for a full day on August 6, 1961, to study the effects of a more prolonged period of weightlessness on the ...

mission on August 7, 1961.Colin Burgess and Rex Hall, ''The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team: Their Lives, Legacy, and Historical Impact''
(Springer, 2009) p. 177

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Krasny Kut serves as the

, to which it is directly subordinated.Law #78-ZSO stipulates that the borders of the administrative districts are identical to the borders of the municipal districts. The Law #104-ZSO, which describes the borders and the composition of Krasnokutsky Municipal District, lists the town of Krasny Kut as a part of that municipal district. The Law #21-ZSO does not enumerate any administrative division types below the district level. As a municipal division, the

of Krasny Kut, together with two rural localities, is incorporated within Krasnokutsky Municipal District as Krasny Kut Urban Settlement.Law #104-ZSO

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