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Verkhoturye () is a historical town and the administrative center of Verkhotursky District of Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located in the middle Ural Mountains on the left bank of the Tura River north of Yekaterinburg. Population: 7,815 (2002 Census; 10,900 (1967).

Key facts

Russian inhabited locality.en_name
Verkhoturye
Russian inhabited locality.ru_name
Верхоту́рье
Russian inhabited locality.image_skyline
Verkhoturye TrinityCathedral DJI 0116.jpg
Russian inhabited locality.image_caption
View of the town
Russian inhabited locality.map_label_position
right
Russian inhabited locality.image_coa
Coat of Arms of Verkhoturie (Sverdlovsk oblast) coat ot arms.png
Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject
Sverdlovsk Oblast
Russian inhabited locality.adm_ctr_of1
Verkhotursky District
Russian inhabited locality.inhabloc_cat
Town
Russian inhabited locality.pop_latest
8593
Russian inhabited locality.pop_latest_date
2019
Russian inhabited locality.established_date
1598
Russian inhabited locality.current_cat_date
1598
Russian inhabited locality.postal_codes
624380–624382
Russian inhabited locality.dialing_codes
34389
Russian inhabited locality.website
adm-verhotury.ru

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5 sections
Contents
  • History
  • The Gateway to Siberia
  • Other Ural crossings
  • References
  • External links

Verkhoturye () is a historical town and the administrative center of Verkhotursky District of Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located in the middle Ural Mountains on the left bank of the Tura River north of Yekaterinburg. Population: 7,815 (2002 Census; 10,900 (1967).

==History== Verkhoturye was founded in 1598 by Vasily Golovin and Ivan Voyeykov on the site of the Vogul settlement of Neromkar. There were major fires in 1674 and 1738. The railroad arrived in 1906. It lost town status in 1926 and regained it in 1947. Two oil pipelines pass through the area and there are plans to build an oil refinery.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Verkhoturye” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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