Sim, Chelyabinsk Oblast
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Ashinsky District
Ashinsky District is a district , one of the 27 in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. Its administrative center is the town of Asha. Population : 37,045 ;...
of Chelyabinsk Oblast
Chelyabinsk Oblast
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, 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 Sim River
Sim River
Sim River is a river in Chelyabinsk Oblast and the Republic of Bashkortostan in Russia. It is a tributary of the Belaya River, part of the Volga watershed. Its length is ....
, 340 kilometres (211.3 mi) west of Chelyabinsk
Chelyabinsk
Chelyabinsk is a city and the administrative center of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located in the northwestern side of the oblast, south of Yekaterinburg, just to the east of the Ural Mountains, on the Miass River. Population: -History:...
. Population:
It was founded in 1759 as Simsky Zavod , a settlement around an ironworks
Ironworks
An ironworks or iron works is a building or site where iron is smelted and where heavy iron and/or steel products are made. The term is both singular and plural, i.e...
. It was renamed Sim and granted town status on November 13, 1942.
It is the birthplace of Igor Kurchatov
Igor Kurchatov
Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov , was a Soviet nuclear physicist who is widely known as the director of the Soviet atomic bomb project. Along with Georgy Flyorov and Andrei Sakharov, Kurchatov is widely remembered and dubbed as the "father of the Soviet atomic bomb" for his directorial role in the...
, a famous Soviet/Russian physicist.