Degtyarsk is a town under the administrative jurisdiction of the Town

City of federal subject significance

City of federal subject significance is an umbrella term used to refer to a type of an administrative division of a federal subject of Russia which is equal in status to a district but is organized around a large city; occasionally with surrounding rural territories.According to the 1993...

 of Revda

Revda, Sverdlovsk Oblast

Revda is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. Population: -Administrative and municipal status:Administratively, along with the town of Degtyarsk and ten rural localities, the town is incorporated as the Town of Revda—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the...

 in Sverdlovsk Oblast

Sverdlovsk Oblast

Sverdlovsk Oblast is a federal subject of Russia located in the Urals Federal District. Its administrative center is the city of Yekaterinburg formerly known as Sverdlovsk. Population: -Geography:...

, Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

, located on the Vyazovka River (right tributary

Tributary

A tributary or affluent is a stream or river that flows into a main stem river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean...

 of the Chusovaya), 67 kilometres (41.6 mi) west of Yekaterinburg

Yekaterinburg

Yekaterinburg is a major city in the central part of Russia, the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast. Situated on the eastern side of the Ural mountain range, it is the main industrial and cultural center of the Urals Federal District with a population of 1,350,136 , making it Russia's...

. Population:

History

It was founded in the 18th century; town status was granted to it in 1954.

The town is famous as the site of 1960 U-2 incident, where an American Lockheed U-2

Lockheed U-2

The Lockheed U-2, nicknamed "Dragon Lady", is a single-engine, very high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft operated by the United States Air Force and previously flown by the Central Intelligence Agency . It provides day and night, very high-altitude , all-weather intelligence gathering...

 reconnaissance aircraft (and pursuing Soviet MiG-19 'Farmer'

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19

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) were shot down by S-75 Dvina

S-75 Dvina

The S-75 Dvina is a Soviet-designed, high-altitude, command guided, surface-to-air missile system...

 (SA-2 'Guideline') surface-to-air missile

Surface-to-air missile

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s.

Administrative and municipal status

Administratively, Degtyarsk and ten rural localities are subordinated to the Town

City of federal subject significance

City of federal subject significance is an umbrella term used to refer to a type of an administrative division of a federal subject of Russia which is equal in status to a district but is organized around a large city; occasionally with surrounding rural territories.According to the 1993...

 of Revda

Revda, Sverdlovsk Oblast

Revda is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. Population: -Administrative and municipal status:Administratively, along with the town of Degtyarsk and ten rural localities, the town is incorporated as the Town of Revda—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the...

—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts

Administrative divisions of Sverdlovsk Oblast

*Towns under the federal government management:**Novouralsk ***with 1 selsovet under the town's jurisdiction.**Lesnoy ***Urban-type settlements under the town's jurisdiction and the federal government management:...

.

Municipally, Degtyarsk, along with three rural localities, is incorporated as Degtyarsk Urban Okrug. Revda and the other seven rural localities are independently incorporated as Revda Urban Okrug.