Minyar (russian: Минья́р) is a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
in
Ashinsky District
Ashinsky District (russian: Аши́нский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-seven in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia.Resolution #161 It is located in the west of the oblast. The area of the dist ...
of
Chelyabinsk Oblast
Chelyabinsk Oblast (russian: Челя́бинская о́бласть, ''Chelyabinskaya oblast'') is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia in the Ural Mountains region, on the border of Europe and Asia. Its administrative center is the city ...
,
Russia
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, located in the valley of the
Sim River
The Sim ( ba, Эҫем, russian: Сим) is a river in Chelyabinsk Oblast and the Bashkortostan, Republic of Bashkortostan in Russia. It is a tributary of the Belaya (Kama), Belaya, part of the Volga Drainage basin, watershed. Its length is , and i ...
at its
confluence
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with the
Minyar River
Minyar (russian: Минья́р) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town in Ashinsky District of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located in the valley of the Sim River at its confluence with the Minyar River, west of Chelyabinsk, the admini ...
, west of
Chelyabinsk
Chelyabinsk ( rus, Челя́бинск, p=tɕɪˈlʲæbʲɪnsk, a=Ru-Chelyabinsk.ogg; ba, Силәбе, ''Siläbe'') is the administrative center and largest city of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. It is the seventh-largest city in Russia, with a ...
, the
administrative center
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of the
oblast
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. Population:
History
It was founded in 1771. Town status was granted to it on May 14, 1943.
Administrative and municipal status
Within the
framework of administrative divisions, it is, together with one
rural locality
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(the settlement of
Volkovo), incorporated within Ashinsky District as the
Town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
of Minyar.
[Resolution #161] As a
municipal division, the Town of Minyar is incorporated within Ashinsky Municipal District as Minyarskoye Urban Settlement.
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Cities and towns in Chelyabinsk Oblast
Ufa Governorate
Populated places established in 1771