Argun

Argun, also known as Ustrada is a town in the Chechen Republic, Russia, located on the Argun River. Population: 29,525 ; 25,698 ; 25,491 ; 22,000. In April 2017 the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta documented that Chechen authorities had set up so-called "gay concentration camps", within the town.
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Wikipedia
Саид Мисарбиев, CC BY-SA 4.0.
  • Town with about 42,100 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 120 metres (380 feet)
  • Description: human settlement in City of Argun, Chechen Republic, Russia
  • Also known as
    “Argun, Chechen Republic”
    “Kolkhoznoye”
    “Ustar-Gordoy”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Primykaniye and Komsomolskoye.
Lesless, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village, which is situated 3½ km west of Argun.
Саид Мисарбиев, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village, which is situated 3½ km southwest of Argun.
Flandria12, CC BY 4.0.
is a village, which is situated 4 km northwest of Argun.

Argun

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Latitude
43.29505° or 43° 17′ 42″ north
Longitude
45.86889° or 45° 52′ 8″ east
Open location code
8HM77VW9+2H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 287702846
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
581126
Wiki­data ID
Q103703

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Argun” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أرغن”
  • Asturian: “Argun”
  • Azerbaijani: “Arqun”
  • Belarusian: “Аргун (горад)”
  • Belarusian: “Аргун (места)”
  • Belarusian: “Аргун”
  • Bulgarian: “Аргун”
  • Catalan: “Argun”
  • Catalan: “Ustrada”
  • Cebuano: “Argun”
  • Chechen: “Kolxoznoe”
  • Chechen: “Orga”
  • Chechen: “Ustrada-Ġala”
  • Chechen: “Колхозное”
  • Chechen: “Орга”
  • Chechen: “Устрада-ГӀала”
  • Chinese: “阿尔贡”
  • Chinese: “阿尔贡河州”
  • Chinese: “阿爾貢”
  • Chinese: “額爾古納河州”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Argun (şeer)”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Argun”
  • Croatian: “Argun”
  • Czech: “Argun”
  • Danish: “Argun”
  • Dutch: “Argoen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ارجن”
  • Erzya: “Аргун (ош)”
  • Erzya: “Аргун”
  • Esperanto: “Argun”
  • Esperanto: “Arguno”
  • Estonian: “Argun”
  • Finnish: “Orga”
  • French: “Argoun”
  • Georgian: “არღუნი”
  • German: “Argun”
  • Hausa: “Argun, Chechen Republic”
  • Ido: “Argun”
  • Irish: “Argun”
  • Italian: “Argun”
  • Kalmyk: “Аргун балһсн”
  • Korean: “아르군”
  • Latvian: “Arguna”
  • Lithuanian: “Argunas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Argun (Chechen Kiōng-hô-kok)”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Argun”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Argun”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Argun i Tsjetsjenia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Argun”
  • Norwegian: “Argun”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Argun”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ustrada-Ġala”
  • Ossetian: “Аргун”
  • Ossetian: “Аргъун”
  • Persian: “آرگون”
  • Polish: “Argun”
  • Portuguese: “Argun”
  • Romanian: “Argun, Cecenia”
  • Romanian: “Argun”
  • Russian: “Аргун (город)”
  • Russian: “Аргун”
  • Scots: “Argun, Chechnie”
  • Scots: “Argun”
  • Serbian: “Аргун”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Argun”
  • Slovenian: “Argun, Rusija”
  • Slovenian: “Argun”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آرقون”
  • Spanish: “Argún”
  • Swedish: “Argun”
  • Tagalog: “Argun, Chechen Republic”
  • Tagalog: “Argun”
  • Talysh: “Argun”
  • Tatar: “Аргун”
  • Turkish: “Argun”
  • Ukrainian: “Аргун”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Argun”
  • Urdu: “ارگون، چیچن جمہوریہ”
  • Uzbek: “Argun”
  • Veps: “Argun”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Argun, Chechnya”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Argun”

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