Verkhnyaya Tura is a town under the administrative jurisdiction of the Town

City of federal subject significance

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 of Kushva

Kushva

Kushva is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, situated in the Ural Mountains near Yekaterinburg. Population: -History:Originally a mining town founded in 1735 at the Blagodat Mountain to explore its iron ore deposits, it was granted town status in 1926 and was then renamed from Kushvinsky Zavod ...

 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

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, located in the upper streams of the Tura River

Tura River

Tura River , also known as Dolgaya River ) is a historically important Siberian river which flows eastward from the central Ural Mountains into the Tobol River, a part of the Ob River basin. The main town is Tyumen....

 (Ob

Ob River

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's basin

Drainage basin

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), 187 kilometres (116.2 mi) north 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:

Administrative and municipal status

Administratively, Verkhnyaya Tura and twelve 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 Kushva

Kushva

Kushva is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, situated in the Ural Mountains near Yekaterinburg. Population: -History:Originally a mining town founded in 1735 at the Blagodat Mountain to explore its iron ore deposits, it was granted town status in 1926 and was then renamed from Kushvinsky Zavod ...

—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:...

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Municipally, Verkhnyaya Tura is incorporated as Verkhnyaya Tura Urban Okrug. Kushva and the twelve rural localities are independently incorporated as Kushvinsky Urban Okrug.