Asha is a town in Chelyabinsk Oblast

Chelyabinsk Oblast

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, Russia

Russia

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, located on the Sim River

Sim River

Sim River is a river in Chelyabinsk Oblast and the Republic of Bashkortostan in Russia. It is a tributary of the Belaya River, part of the Volga watershed. Its length is ....

 (the Belaya's tributary

Tributary

A tributary or affluent is a stream or river that flows into a main stem river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean...

), 377 kilometres (234.3 mi) west of Chelyabinsk

Chelyabinsk

Chelyabinsk is a city and the administrative center of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located in the northwestern side of the oblast, south of Yekaterinburg, just to the east of the Ural Mountains, on the Miass River. Population: -History:...

. Population:

It was founded in 1898 and was granted town status on June 20, 1933.

On June 4, 1989, the Ufa train disaster

Ufa train disaster

The Ufa train disaster was an explosion on the Kuybyshev Railway on June 4, 1989 at 1:15 in the Soviet Union, about 50 kilometers from the city of Ufa...

, a huge liquefied petroleum gas explosion that killed or injured 1,200 persons, occurred near Asha.

Asha is famous for its ski resort, called Adzhigardak.