Priyutnoye (russian: Прию́тное ''Prijutnoe''; xal-RU, Әмтә Нур, ''Ämtä Nur'') is a settlement and the administrative center of

Priyutnensky District Priyutnensky District (russian: Прию́тненский райо́н; xal-RU, Приютнин район, ''Priyutnin rayon'') is an administrativeDecree #137 and municipalLaw #308-IV-Z district (raion), one of the thirteen in the Republic of ...

and Iki-Burulsky rural locality of the Republic of

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in the

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. It is located on the R216 highway, southwest of the Kalmyk capital of

Elista Elista (russian: Элиста́, (common during the Soviet era) or (most common pronunciation used after 1992 and in Kalmykia itself);"Большой энциклопедический словарь", под ред. А. М. Прохорова. ...

near the Nain Shara River, a tributary of the

Manych River The Manych (russian: Маныч) is a river in the Black Sea–Caspian Steppe of Southern Russia. It flows through the western and central part of the Kuma–Manych Depression. In ancient times, it was known as the Lik. A tributary of the Don, it ...

. In 2010, its population was 6,010 souls. An 1848 imperial decree to create settled villages in ethnically Kalmyk areas led to the 1850 founding of a settlement of Russians near the lake of Amtya-Nur (, from the Kalmyk ''Ämtä Nur'', lit. "sweet lake"). Noted scientist Karl Ernst von Baer visited the area in 1856 and tried unsuccessfully to convince the inhabitants to move from the area due to lime concentrations in the lake.

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Rural localities in Kalmykia Priyutnensky District {{Kalmykia-geo-stub