Yemanzhelinsk
human settlement in Yemanzhelinsky District, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia
Yemanzhelinsk (Russian: Еманжели́нск) is a town and administrative centre in the Yemanzhelinsky District in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. It is located near the Kazakhstan border, and is on the eastern slopes of the Southern Ural Mountains. Yemanzhelinsk was founded in 1770 by the Cossacks. The population was 30,216 at the 2010 census.[1]
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History
changeYemanzhelinsk was founded in 1770 as a Cossack village and was named Yemanzhelinskaya (Еманжелинская) since 1866. It became a coal mining settlement in the early 1930s, and was granted town status on September 25, 1951. The chelyabinsk meteor landed close to Yemanzhelinsk.
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change- ↑ http://www.gks.ru/free_doc/new_site/perepis2010/croc/perepis_itogi1612.htm Archived 2020-04-19 at the Wayback Machine (Russian)