- Pallasovka
Pallasovka ( _ru. Палласовка) is a town in
Volgograd Oblast ,Russia , located on theTorgun River (which flows into theVolgograd Reservoir ), 301 km northeast ofVolgograd . Population: 16,500 (2006 est.); 17,163 (2002 Census); 17,712 (1989 Census).History
Pallasovka was founded in 1907 as a settlement of Torgun ( _ru. Торгунь) servicing the construction of a railroad station of the same name. That same year, Torgun was renamed Pallasovka in honor of an
academician Peter Pallas (1741–1811), who visited the region in 1773–1774. It was granted town status in 1967.The meteorite
Peter Pallas was a famous naturalist who took part in the discovery and the study of the first
pallasite , a type of stony-iron meteorite named after him. Coincidentally, Pallasovka is apallasite meteorite found near the town of Pallasovka, named after a town named after the discoverer ofpallasite s.ee also
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Pallasovka (meteorite)
*Peter Simon Pallas
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