Otradny, Samara Oblast

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Otradny (Russian: Отра́дный) is a town in Samara Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Bolshoy Kinel River (Samara's tributary), 91 km east of Samara. Population: 50,048 (2002 Census); 48,767 (1989 Census).

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

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Administrative center: Samara

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