Yemanzhelinsk is a town in Chelyabinsk Oblast

Chelyabinsk Oblast

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, Russia

Russia

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, located on the eastern slopes of South Urals

Ural Mountains

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 50 kilometres (31.1 mi) south 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:...

, near the border with Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan

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Founded in 1770 as a Cossack village, it has been known as the 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...

of Yemanzhelinskaya since 1866. It became a coal mining settlement in 1930–1931, which was granted town status on September 25, 1951.