Bachatsky is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement

Urban-type settlement

Urban-type settlement ; , selyshche mis'koho typu ) is an official designation for a type of locality used in some of the countries of the former Soviet Union...

) under the administrative jurisdiction of the town of Belovo

Belovo, Russia

Belovo is a town in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, located on the Bachat River south of Kemerovo. Population: It has been known since 1726 as the village of Belovo. Town status was granted to it in 1938....

 in Kemerovo Oblast

Kemerovo Oblast

Kemerovo Oblast , also known as Kuzbass after the Kuznetsk Basin, is a federal subject of Russia , located in southwestern Siberia, where the West Siberian Plain meets the South Siberian mountains...

, Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

, located 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) north of Belovo and 190 kilometres (118.1 mi) southeast of Kemerovo

Kemerovo

Kemerovo is an industrial city in Russia, situated on the Tom River, east-northeast of Novosibirsk. It is the administrative center of Kemerovo Oblast, located in the major coal mining region of the Kuznetsk Basin...

, on the border of Salair Ridge

Salair Ridge

Salair Ridge is an eroded plateau-type highland in the Southwestern Siberia, Russia, particularly in Altai Krai, Kemerovo and Novosibirsk Oblast. It is a natural continuation of Altai Mountains and separates the Kuznetsk Depression from the Ob River Plain to the southwest. See Geography of...

 and Kuznetsk Basin, between the Bolshoy (Chernovoy) Bachat and Maly (Stepnoy) Bachat Rivers. Population:

• Area: 19 square kilometres (7.3 sq mi).
• Postal code: 652642.

Dialing code: +7 38452.

It was founded on August 10, 1954. The main industry is coal mining.