Yuryuzan is a town in Katav-Ivanovsky District

Katav-Ivanovsky District

Katav-Ivanovsky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the 27 in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. Its administrative center is the town of Katav-Ivanovsk...

 of 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 Yuryuzan River

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...

 (left tributary of the Ufa River

Ufa River

Ufa River is a river in the Urals, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Sverdlovsk Oblast, and the Republic of Bashkortostan; a tributary of the Belaya River. It is 918 km in length. The area of the basin is 53,100 km². It freezes up between late October and early December and stays under the ice until...

), 254 kilometres (157.8 mi) from 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:...

 and 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) from the closed town

Closed city

A closed city or closed town is a settlement with travel and residency restrictions in the Soviet Union and some of its successor countries. In modern Russia, such places are officially known as "closed administrative-territorial formations" ....

 of Tryokhgorny

Tryokhgorny

Tryokhgorny three mountains) is a closed town in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located in the western part of the oblast from Chelyabinsk. Population: It was founded in 1952, and was earlier known under the name Zlatoust-36 ....

. Population:

It was established in 1758 as the settlement of Yuryuzan-Ivanovsky Zavod to support the construction of an ironworks

Ironworks

An ironworks or iron works is a building or site where iron is smelted and where heavy iron and/or steel products are made. The term is both singular and plural, i.e...

. Since the end of the 19th century, the settlement is known as Yuryuzansky Zavod . It was granted town status and renamed Yuryuzan on June 18, 1943.

Town economy centers around a large plant which produces refrigerator

Refrigerator

A refrigerator is a common household appliance that consists of a thermally insulated compartment and a heat pump that transfers heat from the inside of the fridge to its external environment so that the inside of the fridge is cooled to a temperature below the ambient temperature of the room...

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