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Okhansk (Russian: Оха́нск) is a town and the administrative center of Okhansky District in Perm Krai, Russia, located on the right bank of the Kama River, 119 kilometers (74 mi) southwest of Perm, the administrative center of the krai. Population: 7,250 (2010 census); 7,994 (2002 census); 8,414 (1989 Soviet census).
First mentioned in 1597 as the village of Okhannoye (Оха́нное), it was also called Okhanskoye (Оха́нское) or Okhan (Оха́н, Оха́нь). Town status was granted in 1781. Some Polish insurgents of the January Uprising were exiled in Okhansk in the 1860s.
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Okhansk serves as the administrative center of Okhansky District, to which it is directly subordinated. As a municipal division, the town of Okhansk is incorporated within Okhansky Municipal District as Okhanskoye Urban Settlement.
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