Kirs is a town and the administrative center of Verkhnekamsky District

Verkhnekamsky District

Verkhnekamsky District is an administrative district , one of the 39 in Kirov Oblast, Russia....

 of Kirov Oblast

Kirov Oblast

Kirov Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . Its administrative center is the city of Kirov. Population: -History:In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Vyatka remained a place of exile for opponents of the tsarist regime, including many prominent revolutionary figures.In 1920, a number of...

, Russia

Russia

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, located on the Kirs River near its confluence

Confluence

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 with the Vyatka

Vyatka River

The Vyatka River is a river in Kirov Oblast and the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia, right tributary of the Kama River. It is 1,314 km in length. The area of its basin is 129,000 km²....

, 281 kilometres (174.6 mi) northeast of Kirov

Kirov, Kirov Oblast

Kirov , formerly known as Vyatka and Khlynov, is a city in northeastern European Russia, on the Vyatka River, and the administrative center of Kirov Oblast. Population: -History:...

. Population:

It was established as a settlement around a cast iron

Cast iron

Cast iron is derived from pig iron, and while it usually refers to gray iron, it also identifies a large group of ferrous alloys which solidify with a eutectic. The color of a fractured surface can be used to identify an alloy. White cast iron is named after its white surface when fractured, due...

 foundry

Foundry

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 built in 1729. In 1862, the foundry was retrofitted to produce merchant bars. Town status was granted to Kirs in 1965.