Turan is a town and the administrative center of Piy-Khemsky District

Piy-Khemsky District

Piy-Khemsky District is one of the seventeen administrative divisions of the Tuva Republic, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as the Municipal District of Piy-Khemsky Kozhuun. Its administrative center is the town of Turan. District's population: 11,431 ; Population of Turan accounts for...

 of the Tuva Republic, Russia

Russia

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, located 70 kilometres (43.5 mi) northwest of Kyzyl

Kyzyl

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, the republic's capital. It was founded in 1885 by Russian

Russians

The Russian people are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Russia, speaking the Russian language and primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries....

 settlers from Siberia

Siberia

Siberia is an extensive region constituting almost all of Northern Asia. Comprising the central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, it was part of the Soviet Union from its beginning, as its predecessor states, the Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire, conquered it during the 16th...

; town status was granted to it in 1945. Population:

The name of the town comes from the Turkic

Turkic languages

The Turkic languages constitute a language family of at least thirty five languages, spoken by Turkic peoples across a vast area from Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean to Siberia and Western China, and are considered to be part of the proposed Altaic language family.Turkic languages are spoken...

word for "saline land."

There is an airport in the town.