Zavetnoye () is a

rural locality In general, a rural area or a countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities. Typical rural areas have a low population density and small settlements. Agricultural areas and areas with forestry are typically describ ...

(a '' selo'') in Zavetinsky District of

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, located from

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. Population: . It is also the

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of Zavetinsky District.

Geography

The settlement is situated at the eastern part of

. The average altitude above sea level is 69 m.

History

The establishment of the village of Zavetnoye is connected with the policy of the tsarist Russian government on the settlement of Kalmyk lands. The governmental instruction of 1846 envisaged the establishment of 28 mixed Kalmyk-Russian villages along roads passing through the

Kalmyk Steppe Kalmuk Steppe, or Kalmyk Steppe is a steppe with a land area of approximately 100,000 km², bordering the northwest Caspian Sea, bounded by the Volga on the northeast, the Manych on the southwest, and the territory of the Don Cossacks on the ...

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/ref> The first land management of Zavetnoye village was carried out in 1847. All Russian villages were first settled mostly by peasants from

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and

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governorates, and the influx of settlers increased after the Peasant reform of 1861. Until 1920, the village had been a part of

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. In 1920 its territory was included into

Kalmyk Autonomous Oblast Kalmyk Autonomous Oblast (AO) (; Kalmyk: Хальмг Автономн Таңhч, ''Xaľmg Awtonomn Tañhç'') was an autonomy of the Kalmyk people within the Russian SFSR that existed at two separate periods. It was first established in Novem ...

. In 1925 it was transferred to

Salsky District Salsky District () is an administrativeLaw #340-ZS and municipalLaw #233-ZS district (raion), one of the forty-three in Rostov Oblast, Russia. It is located in the south of the oblast. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the ...

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.С.Г. Бадмаева. Административно-территориальное устройство Калмыцкой автономной области в начале 20-х гг. XX в.
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References

Rural localities in Rostov Oblast {{RostovOblast-geo-stub