Gryazi is a town and the administrative center of Gryazinsky District

Gryazinsky District

Gryazinsky District is an administrative district , one of the 18 in Lipetsk Oblast, Russia....

 of Lipetsk Oblast

Lipetsk Oblast

Lipetsk Oblast is a federal subject of Russia which was formed on January 6, 1954. Its administrative center is the city of Lipetsk...

, 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 Matyra River

Matyra River

Matyra is a river in Tambov and Lipetsk Oblasts of Russia. It is a left tributary of the Voronezh River , and has a length of 180 km and a drainage basin of 5,180 km². The average discharge 39 km from its mouth is 11.7 m³/s. The town of Gryazi is situated by the Matyra River.On...

 (left 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 Voronezh

Voronezh River

Voronezh is a river in Tambov, Lipetsk, and Voronezh Oblasts in Russia, a left tributary of the Don. The Voronezh River is 342 km in length. The area of its drainage basin is 21,600 km². It freezes up in the first half of December and stays under the ice until late March. The lower...

; Don

Don River (Russia)

The Don River is one of the major rivers of Russia. It rises in the town of Novomoskovsk 60 kilometres southeast from Tula, southeast of Moscow, and flows for a distance of about 1,950 kilometres to the Sea of Azov....

's basin

Drainage basin

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) 30 kilometres (18.6 mi) southeast of Lipetsk

Lipetsk

Lipetsk is a city and the administrative center of Lipetsk Oblast, Russia, located on the banks of the Voronezh River in the Don basin, southeast of Moscow.-History:...

. Population:

It was founded in the second half of the 19th century as a settlement around the Gryazi railway station

Train station

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, which was opened in 1868. Town status was granted to it in 1938.