Kushva (russian: Кушва) is a

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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 in 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 ...

near

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 ...

. Population:

History

Originally a mining settlement founded in 1735 at the Blagodat Mountain to explore its

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deposits, it was granted town status in 1926 and was then renamed from Kushvinsky Zavod () to Kushva. 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

Verkhnyaya Tura Verkhnyaya Tura (russian: Ве́рхняя Тура) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town under the administrative jurisdiction of the City of federal subject significance, Town of Kushva in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located in th ...

and twelve rural localities, incorporated 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 Kushva—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the

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.Law #30-OZ As a municipal division, Kushva and twelve rural localities are incorporated as Kushvinsky Urban Okrug.Law #85-OZ The town of Verkhnyaya Tura is incorporated separately as Verkhnyaya Tura Urban Okrug.

Honors

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was named in honor of the town.

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* * {{Authority control Cities and towns in Sverdlovsk Oblast Verkhotursky Uyezd Ural Mountains