Kikvidze

Kikvidze

 

(until 1936, the stanitsa [large cossack village] of Preobrazhenskaia), an urban-type settlement; center of Kikvidze Raion, Volgograd Oblast, RSFSR. Located on the Buzuluk River (Don basin), 40 km northeast of the Filonovo railroad station (on the Volgograd-Povorino line). It has an incubation and poultry-breeding station. The settlement was named in honor of V. I. Kikvidze.