Verkhneuralsk
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Verkhneuralsky District
Verkhneuralsky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the 27 in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. Its administrative center is the rural locality of . Population: ; Population of accounts for % of the district's population....
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 in the upper streams of the Ural River
Ural River
The Ural or Jayıq/Zhayyq , known as Yaik before 1775, is a river flowing through Russia and Kazakhstan. It arises in the southern Ural Mountains and ends at the Caspian Sea. Its total length is 1,511 mi making it the third longest river in Europe after the Volga and the Danube...
, 230 kilometres (142.9 mi) southwest 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:
Founded in 1734 as the fortress of Verkhneyaitskaya , it was renamed Verkhneuralskaya after the Yaik River was renamed the Ural. Town status was granted to it 1781.