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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 Katav River (left 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...
of the Yuryuzan
Yuryuzan River
Yuryuzan River is a river in the Republic of Bashkortostan and Chelyabinsk Oblast in Russia, a left tributary of the Ufa River . The length of the river is . The area of its basin is . The Yuryuzan River flows into the Pavlovskoye Reservoir near Karaidel. It freezes up in the second half of...
) 321 kilometres (199.5 mi) southwest 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 1757 as a settlement around an iron-smelting plant. Town status was granted to it on August 27, 1939.