Pugachyovskaya
Пугачёвская | |
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Stanitsa | |
Coordinates: 48°00′N 43°09′E / 48.000°N 43.150°E[1] | |
Country | Russia |
Region | Volgograd Oblast |
District | Kotelnikovsky District |
Time zone | UTC+4:00 |
Pugachyovskaya (Russian: Пугачёвская) is a rural locality (a stanitsa) and the administrative center of Pugachyovskoye Rural Settlement, Kotelnikovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 654 as of 2010.[2] There are 12 streets.[3]
It is named after Yemelyan Pugachev, an ataman of the Yaik Cossacks who was born in this village. He is famous for having led a great popular insurrection during the reign of Catherine the Great.[4] The original name "Zimoveyskaya" was changed after his defeat to Potemkinskaya. In 1917, following the October Revolution, it was renamed in his honor.