Nizhnyaya Salda
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Nizhnyaya Salda is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast
, Russia
, located on the Salda River
(Ob
's basin
), 205 kilometres (127.4 mi) north of Yekaterinburg
. Population:
It was founded in 1760; town status was granted to it in 1938.
Sverdlovsk Oblast
Sverdlovsk Oblast is a federal subject of Russia located in the Urals Federal District. Its administrative center is the city of Yekaterinburg formerly known as Sverdlovsk. Population: -Geography:...
, 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 Salda River
Salda River
Salda is a river in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. It is a tributary of the Tagil . The Salda has its sources in the Ural Mountains. It is 122 km long, with a drainage basin of 1,770 km². The average discharge is 7.2 m³/s...
(Ob
Ob River
The Ob River , also Obi, is a major river in western Siberia, Russia and is the world's seventh longest river. It is the westernmost of the three great Siberian rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean .The Gulf of Ob is the world's longest estuary.-Names:The Ob is known to the Khanty people as the...
's basin
Drainage basin
A drainage basin is an extent or an area of land where surface water from rain and melting snow or ice converges to a single point, usually the exit of the basin, where the waters join another waterbody, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea, or ocean...
), 205 kilometres (127.4 mi) north of Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg is a major city in the central part of Russia, the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast. Situated on the eastern side of the Ural mountain range, it is the main industrial and cultural center of the Urals Federal District with a population of 1,350,136 , making it Russia's...
. Population:
It was founded in 1760; town status was granted to it in 1938.