Akhtubinsk, Russia, Asia
Year 1959 latitude: 48° 18' longitude: 46° 9' Period Initiator(s) Planning organization Nationality initiator(s) Designer(s) / Architect(s) Design organization Inhabitants 42,128 (2010) Target population Town website http://www.ahtubinsk.ru/ Town related links Literature type of New Town: > scale of autonomy New-Town-in-Town Satellite New Town Company Town > client Private Corporation Public Corporation > policy Capital Decentralization Industrialization Resettlement Economic
Akhtubinsk was founded in 1959 by the merger of three settlements: Vladimirovka, Petropavlovskoye, and Akhtuba. State Flight Testing Center and a military testing range served as a base for the town's establishment. The town's population has been on a slow decline since 1989. source:
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