Surovikino
Surovikino () is a town and the administrative center of Surovikinsky District in Volgograd Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Chir and Don Rivers (Tsimlyansk Reservoir), west of Volgograd, the administrative center of the oblast. Population:
Key facts
- Russian inhabited locality.en_name
- Surovikino
- Russian inhabited locality.ru_name
- Суровикино
- Russian inhabited locality.map_label_position
- right
- Russian inhabited locality.image_coa
- Coat of arms of Surovikino without a crown (2008).png
- Russian inhabited locality.image_flag
- Flag of Surovikino (2008).png
- Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject
- Volgograd Oblast
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_district_jur
- Surovikinsky District
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_selsoviet_jur
- Surovikino
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_selsoviet_type
- Town of district significance
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_ctr_of1
- Surovikinsky District
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_ctr_of2
- town of district significance of Surovikino
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Surovikino () is a town and the administrative center of Surovikinsky District in Volgograd Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Chir and Don Rivers (Tsimlyansk Reservoir), west of Volgograd, the administrative center of the oblast. Population:
==History== It was founded as a settlement around the Surovikino railway station, which opened in 1900. It was granted town status in 1966.
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