Karabash

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Karabasch (disambiguation) .

city Karabasch Карабаш flag coat of arms Federal district Ural Oblast Chelyabinsk Urban district Karabash mayor Musa Dzugayev Founded 1822 City since 1933 surface 48  km² population 13,152 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 274 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 350  m Time zone UTC + 5 Telephone code (+7) 35153 Post Code 456140-456144 License Plate 74, 174 OKATO 75 415 Website www.admkarabash.ru Geographical location Coordinates 55 ° 29 ′  N , 60 ° 12 ′  E Coordinates: 55 ° 29 ′ 0 ″  N , 60 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Chelyabinsk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Karabash ( Russian Карабаш ) is a city in the Chelyabinsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 13,152 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located on the eastern edge of the Southern Urals about 90 km northwest of the Oblast capital Chelyabinsk .

Karabash is administratively directly subordinate to the oblast.

The city is on a branch line from the station Pirit the 45km from Kyshtym at the 1896 opened railway Yekaterinburg connected -Tscheljabinsk. It is a former narrow-gauge railway , opened in 1910 , which was converted to broad-gauge after 1945.

history

Karabasch was founded in 1822 as a gold prospecting settlement . In 1834, a gold-bearing copper gravel deposit was discovered in the vicinity and the Soimanowski Sawod copper smelter was built on this basis . In 1907 a second copper smelter was opened and another one was built on Mount Karabash ( Turkish for black head , referring to the nearby mountain).

On June 20, 1933, the place received city rights.

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City panorama

Population development

year	Residents
1939	38,318
1959	24,925
1970	20,018
1979	17,619
1989	17.006
2002	15,942
2010	13,152

Note: census data (1939 rounded)

Culture and sights

Karabasch copper works

Karabash has a local museum.

economy

The city-building company is the Kupferhütte ( Karabaschmed AG ), which was responsible for considerable environmental pollution in the past. The mountain on the eastern outskirts has lost all vegetation due to acid rain .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{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)

Web links

Commons : Karabash  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• City administration website (Russian)
• Karabash on mojgorod.ru (Russian)