Surovikino (russian: Сурови́кино) 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
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of
Surovikinsky District
Surovikinsky District (russian: Сурови́кинский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the thirty-three in Volgograd Oblast, Russia.Law #139-OD As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Surovikinsky Municipa ...
in
Volgograd Oblast
Volgograd Oblast (russian: Волгогра́дская о́бласть, ''Volgogradskaya oblast'') is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject (an oblast) of Russia, located in the Volga region, Volga region of Southern Russia. Its adminis ...
,
Russia
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, located at the
confluence
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of the
Chir and
Don Rivers (
Tsimlyansk Reservoir
Tsimlyansk Reservoir or Tsimlyanskoye Reservoir (russian: Цимля́нское водохрани́лище) is an artificial lake on the Don River in the territories of Rostov and Volgograd Oblasts at . Completed in 1952, the reservoir ...
), west of
Volgograd
Volgograd ( rus, Волгогра́д, a=ru-Volgograd.ogg, p=vəɫɡɐˈɡrat), geographical renaming, formerly Tsaritsyn (russian: Цари́цын, Tsarítsyn, label=none; ) (1589–1925), and Stalingrad (russian: Сталингра́д, Stal ...
, the administrative center of the
oblast
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. Population:
History
It was founded as a settlement around the Surovikino railway station, which opened in 1900. It was granted town status in 1966.
Administrative and municipal status
Within the
framework of administrative divisions, Surovikino 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
Surovikinsky District
Surovikinsky District (russian: Сурови́кинский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the thirty-three in Volgograd Oblast, Russia.Law #139-OD As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Surovikinsky Municipa ...
.
As an administrative division, it is incorporated within Surovikinsky 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 Surovikino.
As a
municipal division, the town of district significance of Surovikino is incorporated within Surovikinsky Municipal District as Surovikino Urban Settlement.
[Law #971-OD]
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Cities and towns in Volgograd Oblast