Otradny, Samara Oblast
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Otradny is a town in Samara Oblast
Samara Oblast
Samara Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . Its administrative center is the city of Samara. Population: In 1936–1990, it was known as Kuybyshev Oblast , after the Soviet name of Samara .-Demographics:Population:...

, Russia
Russia
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, located on the left bank of the Bolshoy Kinel River
Bolshoy Kinel River
Bolshoy Kinel is a river in Orenburg and Samara Oblasts of Russia. It is a right tributary of the Samara River, and is 437 km long, with a drainage basin of 15 200 km²...

 (Samara
Samara River
The Samara is a river in Russia, left tributary of Volga. The city of Samara is located at the confluence of Volga and Samara. It rises southwest of the southern end of the Ural Mountains close to the middle Ural River near the town of Orenburg. It then flows west or west northwest to meet the...

's tributary
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), 91 kilometres (56.5 mi) east of Samara
Samara, Russia
Samara , is the sixth largest city in Russia. It is situated in the southeastern part of European Russia at the confluence of the Volga and Samara Rivers. Samara is the administrative center of Samara Oblast. Population: . The metropolitan area of Samara-Tolyatti-Syzran within Samara Oblast...

. Population:

The settlement of Otradnoye was founded in the beginning of the 1920s by the peasants of the village of Chernavki. In 1946, an oil
Oil
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-extracting settlement of Mukhanovo was established nearby, and in 1947 it was granted urban-type settlement
Urban-type settlement
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status and renamed Otradny. It grew and absorbed the settlement of Otradnoye, and in 1956 it was granted town status.
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