Priyutnoye ( ''Prijutnoe''; , ''Ämtä Nur'') is a settlement and the administrative center of

Priyutnensky District Priyutnensky District (; , ''Priyutnin rayon'') is an administrativeDecree #137 and municipalLaw #308-IV-Z district (raion), one of the administrative divisions of the Republic of Kalmykia, thirteen in the Republic of Kalmykia, Russia. It is locat ...

and Iki-Burulsky

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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 (, ;"Большой энциклопедический словарь", под ред. А. М. Прохорова. Москва и Санкт-Петербург, 1997, стр. 1402 , ''Elst'', )The approximate pronunciation of the Cyr ...

near the Nain Shara River, a tributary of the

Manych River The Manych () 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 is long, with it ...

. In 2021, its population was 5,182 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 Karl Ernst Ritter von Baer Edler von Huthorn (; – ) was a Baltic German scientist and explorer. Baer was a naturalist, biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer, and is considered a, or the, founding father of embryology. He was a m ...

visited the area in 1856 and tried unsuccessfully to convince the inhabitants to move from the area due to lime concentrations in the lake.

References

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