The city is located in the foothills of the Urals , about 230 km north of the republic capital Ufa at the mouth of the Janaulka in the Bui , a left tributary of the Kama .
Janaul is administratively directly subordinate to the Oblast and at the same time the administrative center of the Rajon of the same name .
history
A settlement in the place of today's city has been known since the first half of the 18th century. The Janaul station settlement was established around 1914 with the construction of the Kazan - Yekaterinburg railway line , which in 1936 (according to other information in 1938) received the status of an urban-type settlement and in 1991 it was granted city status.
↑ a b Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)