Pallasovka is a town and the administrative center of Pallasovsky District

Pallasovsky District

Pallasovsky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the 33 in Volgograd Oblast, Russia....

 of Volgograd Oblast

Volgograd Oblast

Volgograd Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . Its administrative center is the city of Volgograd. Population: -Geography:*Area: 113,900 km²;*Borders length: 2221,9 km²....

, 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 on the Torgun River (which flows into the Volgograd Reservoir

Volgograd Reservoir

The Volgograd Reservoir is a reservoir in Russia formed at the Volga River by the dam of the Volga Hydroelectric Station. It lies within the Volgograd Oblast and Saratov Oblast and named after the city of Volgograd. It was constructed during 1958-1961....

), 301 kilometres (187 mi) northeast of Volgograd

Volgograd

Volgograd , formerly called Tsaritsyn and Stalingrad is an important industrial city and the administrative center of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. It is long, north to south, situated on the western bank of the Volga River...

. Population:

History

Pallasovka was founded in 1907 as a settlement of Torgun servicing the construction of a railroad station

Train station

A train station, also called a railroad station or railway station and often shortened to just station,"Station" is commonly understood to mean "train station" unless otherwise qualified. This is evident from dictionary entries e.g...

 of the same name. That same year, Torgun was renamed Pallasovka in honor of an academician

Academician

The title Academician denotes a Full Member of an art, literary, or scientific academy.In many countries, it is an honorary title. There also exists a lower-rank title, variously translated Corresponding Member or Associate Member, .-Eastern Europe and China:"Academician" may also be a functional...

 Peter Pallas (1741–1811), who visited the area in 1773–1774. It was granted town status in 1967.

Administrative and municipal status

Administratively, along with three rural localities, it is incorporated as the town of district significance

Town of district significance

Town of district significance is an umbrella term used to refer to a type of an administrative division of a district in a federal subject of Russia, which is equal in status to a selsoviet or an urban-type settlement of district significance, but is organized around a town ; often with surrounding...

 of Pallasovka—an administrative division of Pallasovsky District.

Municipally, the territory of the town is incorporated as Pallasovka Urban Settlement of Pallasovsky Municipal District. The three rural localities are incorporated as Limannoye Rural Settlement of Pallasovsky Municipal District.

The meteorite

Peter Pallas

Peter Simon Pallas

Peter Simon Pallas was a German zoologist and botanist who worked in Russia.- Life and work :Pallas was born in Berlin, the son of Professor of Surgery Simon Pallas. He studied with private tutors and took an interest in natural history, later attending the University of Halle and the University...

 was a famous naturalist who took part in the discovery and the study of the first pallasite

Pallasite

A pallasite is a type of stony–iron meteorite.-Structure and composition:It consists of cm-sized olivine crystals of peridot quality in an iron-nickel matrix. Coarser metal areas develop Widmanstätten patterns upon etching...

, a type of stony-iron meteorite named after him. Coincidentally, Pallasovka

Pallasovka (meteorite)

Pallasovka is a pallasite meteorite found in 1990 near the town of Pallasovka, Russia.-History:One single mass of 198 kg was found 27.5 km from the town of Pallasovka by N. F. Kharitonov on a dike on the edge of an artificial water reservoir...

is a pallasite meteorite found near the town and named after it.