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

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and the

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of Sukholozhsky District in

Sverdlovsk Oblast Sverdlovsk Oblast ( rus, Свердловская область, Sverdlovskaya oblast) is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia located in the Ural Federal District. Its administrative center is the city of Yekaterinburg, formerly known as S ...

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, located on the eastern slopes of the

Ural Mountains The Ural Mountains ( ; rus, Ура́льские го́ры, r=Uralskiye gory, p=ʊˈralʲskʲɪjə ˈɡorɨ; ba, Урал тауҙары) or simply the Urals, are a mountain range that runs approximately from north to south through western ...

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 administra ...

, 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 loosely ...

'' 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

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 Sukhoy Log.Order #120-P As a municipal division, the town of Sukhoy Log is, together with all twenty-five rural localities in Sukholozhsky District, incorporated as Sukhoy Log Urban Okrug.Law #85-OZ

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* * {{Authority control Cities and towns in Sverdlovsk Oblast