Sukhoy Log (russian: Сухо́й Лог, lit. ''dry gully'') is a

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and the

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of Sukholozhsky District in

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, located on the eastern slopes of the

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on the

Pyshma River The Pyshma (russian: Пышма) is a river in Sverdlovsk and Tyumen Oblasts of Russia. It is a right tributary of the Tura. It is long, with a drainage basin of . The Pyshma has its sources at above sea level on the eastern side of the Ura ...

( Ob's basin), east of

Yekaterinburg Yekaterinburg ( ; rus, Екатеринбург, p=jɪkətʲɪrʲɪnˈburk), alternatively romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk ( rus, Свердло́вск, , svʲɪrˈdlofsk, 1924–1991), is a city and the administrat ...

, the administrative center of the

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. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 34,554.

History

It was founded in 1710 as the ''

sloboda A sloboda ( rus, слобода́, p=sləbɐˈda) was a kind of settlement in the history of the Old Russian regions Povolzhye, Central Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. The name is derived from the early Slavic word for " freedom" and may be loose ...

'' of Sukholozhskaya. In 1847,

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deposits were prospected in the vicinity, and the village served as a coal mining center until the 1860s.

Urban-type settlement Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...

status was granted to Sukhoy Log in 1932 and town status in 1943.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Sukhoy Log serves as the

of Sukholozhsky District. As an administrative division, it is incorporated within Sukholozhsky District as the

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of Sukhoy Log.Order #120-P As a municipal division, the town of Sukhoy Log is, together with all twenty-five

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History

Administrative and municipal status

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