Astrakhan

Astrakhan is a metropolis in southern Russia and the workplace of Astrakhan Oblast. The town lies on banks of the Volga River, near in which it discharges into the Caspian Sea at an altitude of 28 meters or 92 toes beneath sea level. As of the 2010 Census, its population become 520,339; up from 504,501 recorded inside the 2002 Census and 509,210 recorded inside the 1989 Census. The oldest monetary and cultural middle of the Lower Volga, it is frequently calledthrough whom the southernmost outpost of Russia and the Caspian capital. The metropolis is a member of the Eurasian Regional Office of the World Organization United Cities and Local Governments Its populace is various and consists of one hundred ethnicities and fourteen spiritual denominations.

The city is placed within the higher part of the Volga delta, on eleven islands of the Caspian Depression. The distance to Moscow through road is 1,411 kilometers or 877 mi. Astrakhan is in the Volga Delta, that is wealthy in sturgeon and extraordinary vegetation. The fertile place previously contained the capitals of Khazaria and the Golden Horde. Astrakhan became first stated by way of tourists inside the early thirteenth century as Xacitarxan. Tamerlane burnt it to the floor in 1395 at some point of his battle with the Golden Horde. From 1459 to 1556, Xacitarxan become the capital of Astrakhan Khanate. The ruins of this medieval agreement had been observed via archaeologists 12 km upstream from the modern-day city.