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Kyshtym

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Kyshtym () is a town in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located on the eastern slopes of the Southern Ural Mountains northwest of Chelyabinsk, near the town of Ozyorsk. Population: 36,000 (1970).

Key facts

Russian inhabited locality.en_name
Kyshtym
Russian inhabited locality.ru_name
Кыштым
Russian inhabited locality.map_label_position
right
Russian inhabited locality.image_coa
Coat of Arms of Kyshtym (Chelyabinsk oblast).png
Russian inhabited locality.image_flag
Flag_of_Kyshtym_(Chelyabinsk_oblast).png
Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject
Chelyabinsk Oblast
Russian inhabited locality.adm_city_jur
Town of Kyshtym
Russian inhabited locality.adm_ctr_of
Town of Kyshtym
Russian inhabited locality.inhabloc_cat
Town
Russian inhabited locality.urban_okrug_jur
Kyshtymsky Urban Okrug
Russian inhabited locality.mun_admctr_of
Kyshtymsky Urban Okrug
Russian inhabited locality.pop_2010census
38942
Russian inhabited locality.established_date
1757
Russian inhabited locality.current_cat_date
1934

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human settlement
Country
Russia
Located in
Ural Oblast
Population
35325
Area
45.67
Elevation
260
Time zone
UTC+05:00
Official website
www.adminkgo.ru
Image
Kyshtym church.jpg
Dialing code
35151
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Commons category
Kyshtym
inception
1757-01-01
category of associated people
Category:People from Kyshtym
postal code
456870
topic's main category
Category:Kyshtym
Commons gallery
Кыштым
native label
Кыштым
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Encyclopedic overview

7 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Administrative and municipal status
  • Nuclear disaster
  • References
  • Notes
  • Sources
  • External links

Kyshtym () is a town in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located on the eastern slopes of the Southern Ural Mountains northwest of Chelyabinsk, near the town of Ozyorsk. Population: 36,000 (1970).

==History== Kyshtym was established by the Demidovs in 1757 around two factories for production of cast iron and steel. The city emblem shows the Kyshtym Manor House, a Palladian residence of Nikita Demidov Jr. According to Herbert Hoover, a small iron industry had existed there "for one hundred and fifty years", which produced a secret process for generating sheet iron "unusually resistant to rust." The process "consisted of alternately heating the sheets and sweeping them when hot with a wet pine-bough. The effect was to create a coating of iron oxide which was rust-resistant."

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