Kushva
Template:Short description Template:Infobox Russian inhabited locality Kushva (Template:Langx) is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located in the Ural Mountains near Yekaterinburg. Population: Template:Ru-census2010 Template:Replace (2002 Census);[1] Template:Replace (1989 Soviet census).[2]
History
Originally a mining settlement founded in 1735 at the Blagodat Mountain to explore its iron ore deposits, it was granted town status in 1926 and was then renamed from Kushvinsky Zavod (Script error: No such module "Lang".) to Kushva.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Currently it is stagnant and its population is decreasing as most of the mining industry closed down.
Administrative and municipal status
Within the framework of the administrative divisions, it is, together with the town of Verkhnyaya Tura and twelve rural localities, incorporated as the Town of Kushva[3]—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.[4] As a municipal division, Kushva and twelve rural localities are incorporated as Kushvinsky Urban Okrug.[5] The town of Verkhnyaya Tura is incorporated separately as Verkhnyaya Tura Urban Okrug.[5]
Honors
A crater on Mars was named in honor of the town.
References
Notes
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- ↑ Script error: No such module "Lang". (State Statistics Committee of the Russian Federation. Committee of the Russian Federation on Standardization, Metrology, and Certification. #OK 019-95 January 1, 1997 Russian Classification of Objects of Administrative Division (OKATO). Code 65 470, as amended by the Amendment #278/2015 of January 1, 2016. ).
- ↑ Law #30-OZ
- ↑ a b Law #85-OZ
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Sources
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