Vostochnoye, Astrakhan Oblast

Vostochnoye Восточное
Selo
Kalmyk khurul (Buddhist temple) in Vostochnoye
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Coordinates: 46°07′N 47°40′E / 46.117°N 47.667°E / 46.117; 47.667[1]
Country	Russia
Region	Astrakhan Oblast
District	Ikryaninsky District
Time zone	UTC+4:00

Восточное (Russian: Восточное) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Vostochny Selsoviet of Ikryaninsky District, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia. The population was 767 as of 2010.^[2] There are 15 streets.

Vostochnoye is located 16 km northwest of Ikryanoye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Dzhamba is the nearest rural locality.^[3]

Vostochnoye was founded by Kalmyk settlers in the 1930s. Its original name was Kisin-Sharburbä. After all ethnic Kalmyks were forcibly resettled to Siberia in 1943 by Joseph Stalin, it got its current name derived from the Russian word for "Eastern".^[4]

In 2021, the local Kalmyk community composed of those who managed to return from the Siberian exile finished the construction of a Buddhist temple (khurul).

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  Statue near the Kalmyk khurul
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  Buddhist flags and ribbons by Lake Golga
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  Brick house on Mira Street
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  Lake Golga

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