Pallasovka (Russian: Палла́совка) is a town and the administrative center of Pallasovsky District in Volgograd Oblast, Russia, located on the Torgun River (which flows into the Volgograd Reservoir), 301 kilometers (187 mi) northeast of Volgograd, the administrative center of the oblast.

[8] It was founded in 1907 as a settlement of Torgun (Торгунь) servicing the construction of a railway station of the same name.

[citation needed] That same year, Torgun was renamed Pallasovka in honor of an academician Peter Pallas (1741–1811), who visited the area in 1773–1774.

[4] Peter Pallas was a famous naturalist who took part in the discovery and the study of the first pallasite, a type of stony-iron meteorite named after him.

Coincidentally, Pallasovka is a pallasite meteorite found near the town and named after it.