Kropotkin, Irkutsk Oblast
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Kropotkin () is an urban locality (a work settlement) in Bodaybinsky District of
Irkutsk Oblast Irkutsk Oblast (; ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in southeastern Siberia in the basins of the Angara River, Angara, Lena River, Lena, and Nizhnyaya Tunguska Rivers. The administrative center is ...
,
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. Population: It was named Kropotkin (in honor of
Peter Kropotkin Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (9 December 1842 – 8 February 1921) was a Russian anarchist and geographer known as a proponent of anarchist communism. Born into an aristocratic land-owning family, Kropotkin attended the Page Corps and later s ...
) in 1930.


Administrative status

Kropotkin is the capital of the Kropotkin Urban Settlement (Кропоткинского муниципального образования) municipal unit, which includes the Kropotkin urban locality, as well as the village of Svetly.


Geography

It is located on the Patom Highlands, in the Kropotkin Range area, southwest of Perevoz and northeast of the regional center, Bodaibo. The town lies on the Nygri River, a left tributary of the Vachi River, a tributary of the Zhuya of the Chara River basin.
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References

Urban-type settlements in Irkutsk Oblast Peter Kropotkin {{IrkutskOblast-geo-stub