It is located right off the mouths of the Volga in an area where there are many delta islands.

[1] Batkachny Island has a very twisted shape, with many headlands and inlets.

It is separated from the coast by a 1 km wide channel.

[2] Administratively Batkachny and its neighboring islands belong to the Astrakhan Oblast of the Russian Federation.

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