Kachkanar

Kachkanar (English) Качканар (Russian)
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Location of Sverdlovsk Oblast in Russia
Kachkanar Location of Kachkanar in Sverdlovsk Oblast
Coordinates: 58°42′N 59°29′E / 58.700°N 59.483°E / 58.700; 59.483Coordinates: 58°42′N 59°29′E / 58.700°N 59.483°E / 58.700; 59.483
Coat of arms	Flag
Administrative status (as of April 2014)
Country	Russia
Federal subject	Sverdlovsk Oblast
Administratively subordinated to	Town of Kachkanar
Administrative center of	Town of Kachkanar
Municipal status (as of April 2014)
Urban okrug	Kachkanarsky Urban Okrug
Administrative center of	Kachkanarsky Urban Okrug
Statistics
Population (2010 Census)	41,426 inhabitants
Time zone	YEKT (UTC+05:00)
Founded	1957
Town status since	1968
Postal code(s)	624350, 624351, 624354, 624356, 624357
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Kachkanar (Russian: Качкана́р) is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located between the Isa and Vyya Rivers in the Tura River's basin, 205 kilometers (127 mi) north of Yekaterinburg, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: 41,426 (2010 Census);44,664 (2002 Census);48,251 (1989 Census).

It was founded in 1957 as an ore mining settlement and was granted urban-type settlement status in 1959. Town status was granted to it in 1968.

Within the framework of the administrative divisions, it is, together with two rural localities, incorporated as the Town of Kachkanar—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, the Town of Kachkanar is incorporated as Kachkanarsky Urban Okrug.

The town is connected with a 44-kilometer (27 mi) long branch line to the Perm–Nizhny Tagil–Yekaterinburg main railway line. There is an open-pit mine to the north.

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