Sakmara (Russian: Сакмара; Bashkir: Һаҡмар, Haqmar) is a rural locality (a selo), the administrative center of Sakmarsky District in Orenburg Oblast, Russia.

This is how A. S. Pushkin describes Pugachev’s arrival in Sakmarsky gorodok: ... “In the fortress near the village hut, carpets were laid and a table was set up with bread and salt.

He was told that some were in the service, others with their chieftain, Danil Donskoy, were taken to Orenburg, and that only twenty persons were left for the postal need, but they also disappeared.

“If your son were here,” he said to the old man, “then your dinner would be big and honest: but your bread and salt is not pure anymore.” What kind of chieftain is he if he left his place?

“- After dinner, being drunk, he wanted the host to be executed; but the Cossacks who were with him discouraged him; the old man was only chained and put for one night in a cottage under the guard.

There are a secondary school, a kindergarten, a Palace of Culture, a Sport Centre, a hospital, a mosk and the Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God.