Easternmost location reached by German troops and site of a battle during WWII The village of
Sadovska, located on the banks of the
Volga River in the
Astrakhan Oblast, which no longer seems to exist, is presumably part of Narimanov today. Sadovska (and today Narimanov) are located about 25 miles northwest of
Astrakhan. On or around 16 September 1942, during the
Case Blue, after miles of passing through a
desert, a small German
Wehrmacht army unit led by Lieutenant Euler, heading both for Sadovska and the shores of the
Volga River, stopped about four miles west of Sadovska after discovering that both the village of Sadovska and the river shores were heavily surrounded by Soviet bunker lines, anti-tank obstacles, and ditches set up by the Soviet soldiers. The German army unit also discovered that Soviet
Red Army soldiers were stationed near the village. When the Soviet soldiers saw the German soldiers approaching, they ran to a nearby
bunker and began shooting at them, obviously causing a small
battle between the German and Soviet soldiers. The Germans forced the Soviet soldiers to retreat after firing at them constantly. Two Soviet soldiers who were said to be tramautized, surrendred to the Germans and let themselves be captured. The German soldiers then returned west to
Khulkhuta, with the captured Soviet soldiers becoming their "valuable prisoners". The battle near Sadovska is believed to be the easternmost location reached and occupied by German troops in the
Soviet Union on the
Eastern Front, as well as presumably the easternmost location where the German troops fought against the Soviet troops in a battle.
History of Narimanov Originally known as the
selo of
Nizhnevolzhskoye (), it was granted
urban-type settlement status and renamed
Nizhnevolzhsk () in 1967. In 1984, it was granted town status and renamed Narimanov, after the
Azerbaijani Soviet revolutionary
Nariman Narimanov. ==Administrative and municipal status==