Pallasovka

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Pallasovka (Russian: Палласовка) is a town in Volgograd Oblast, Russia, located on the Torgun River (which flows into the Volgograd Reservoir), 301 km northeast of Volgograd. Population: 16,500 (2006 est.); 17,163 (2002 Census); 17,712 (1989 Census).

History

Pallasovka was founded in 1907 as a settlement of Torgun (Торгунь) servicing the construction of a railroad station of the same name. That same year, Torgun was renamed Pallasovka in honor of an academician Peter Pallas (1741–1811), who visited the region in 1773–1774. It was granted town status in 1967.

The meteorite

Peter Pallas was a famous naturalist who took part in the discovery and the study of the first pallasite, a type of stony-iron meteorite named after him. Coincidentally, Pallasovka is a pallasite meteorite found near the town of Pallasovka, named after a town named after the discoverer of pallasites.

See also

• Pallasovka (meteorite)
• Peter Simon Pallas

Cities and towns in Volgograd Oblast Administrative center: Volgograd Dubovka · Frolovo · Kalach-na-Donu · Kamyshin · Kotelnikovo · Kotovo · Krasnoslobodsk · Leninsk · Mikhaylovka · Nikolayevsk · Novoanninsky · Pallasovka · Petrov Val · Serafimovich · Surovikino · Uryupinsk · Volzhsky · Zhirnovsk

Coordinates: 50°03′N 46°53′E / 50.05, 46.883

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