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Saparmyrat Türkmenbaşy is a town and capital of Saparmyrat Türkmenbaşy District in the Daşoguz Province of Turkmenistan. It has been assigned as an urban-type settlement since 1984. Before 1993, its name was Oktyabrsk. It is renamed to Saparmyrat Türkmenbaşy in honor of Saparmurat Niyazov. The city has a railway station, which is the terminal on the dead-end branch of a railway line connecting Dashoguz and Xo‘jayli. The status of the city has been assigned since 2016. Its 1989 population is 6,770.