Chebarkul is a town in Chelyabinsk Oblast

Chelyabinsk Oblast

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, Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

, located on the shores of Chebarkul Lake

Chebarkul Lake

Chebarkul Lake is a lake in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, at . It has a surface of 19.8 km², freezes in November and stays icebound until May. The town of Chebarkul lies on the shore of the lake....

 78 kilometres (48.5 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:

Founded in 1736 as a fortress on the border between Russian and Bashkir

Bashkirs

The Bashkirs are a Turkic people indigenous to Bashkortostan extending on both parts of the Ural mountains, on the place where Europe meets Asia. Groups of Bashkirs also live in the republic of Tatarstan, Perm Krai, Chelyabinsk, Orenburg, Tyumen, Sverdlovsk, Kurgan, Samara and Saratov Oblasts of...

 lands, it later grew into a large Cossack stanitsa

Stanitsa

Stanitsa is a village inside a Cossack host . Stanitsas were the primary unit of Cossack hosts.Historically, the stanitsa was a unit of economic and political organisation of the Cossack peoples primarily in the southern regions of the Russian Empire.Much of the land was held in common by the...

. Town status was granted to it on October 25, 1951.

Several formations and units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are the military services of Russia, established after the break-up of the Soviet Union. On 7 May 1992 Boris Yeltsin signed a decree establishing the Russian Ministry of Defence and placing all Soviet Armed Forces troops on the territory of the RSFSR...

's Volga-Ural Military District have been located in the town. Currently elements of the 34th Motor Rifle Division are located here.