# Kushva

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{{Short description|Town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia}}
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|image_caption=Kushva [town hall](/source/town_hall), September 2014
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'''Kushva''' ({{langx|ru|Кушва}}) is a [town](/source/types_of_inhabited_localities_in_Russia) in [Sverdlovsk Oblast](/source/Sverdlovsk_Oblast), [Russia](/source/Russia), located in the [Ural Mountains](/source/Ural_Mountains) near [Yekaterinburg](/source/Yekaterinburg). Population: {{ru-census|p2010=30,167|p2002=35,555|p1989=43,096}}

==History==
[[File:Vasnetsov Blagodat hill.jpg|thumb|left|''Blagodat Mountain'', by [Apollinary Vasnetsov](/source/Apollinary_Vasnetsov), 1890]]

Originally a mining settlement founded in 1735 at the [Blagodat Mountain](/source/Blagodat_(mountain)) to explore its [iron ore](/source/iron_ore) deposits, it was granted town status in 1926 and was then renamed from '''Kushvinsky Zavod''' ({{lang|ru|Кушвинский Завод}}) to Kushva.{{citation needed|date=November 2012}} Currently it is stagnant and its population is decreasing as most of the mining industry closed down.

==Administrative and municipal status==
Within the [framework of the administrative divisions](/source/subdivisions_of_Russia), it is, together with the [town](/source/types_of_inhabited_localities_in_Russia) of [Verkhnyaya Tura](/source/Verkhnyaya_Tura) and twelve rural localities, incorporated as the '''[Town](/source/City_of_federal_subject_significance) of Kushva'''<ref name="OKATO">{{OKATO reference|65 470}}</ref>—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the [districts](/source/administrative_divisions_of_Sverdlovsk_Oblast).<ref name="SverdlovskO_adm">Law #30-OZ</ref> As a [municipal division](/source/subdivisions_of_Russia), Kushva and twelve rural localities are incorporated as '''Kushvinsky Urban Okrug'''.<ref name="SverdlovskO_mun">Law #85-OZ</ref> The town of Verkhnyaya Tura is incorporated separately as Verkhnyaya Tura Urban Okrug.<ref name="SverdlovskO_mun" />

==Honors==
A [crater](/source/impact_crater) on [Mars](/source/Mars) was named in honor of the town.

==References==
===Notes===
{{Reflist}}

===Sources===
*{{RussiaAdmMunRef|sve|adm|law}}
*{{RussiaAdmMunRef|sve|mun|list}}

{{Cities and towns in Sverdlovsk Oblast}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2012}}
{{Authority control}}

Category:Cities and towns in Sverdlovsk Oblast
Category:Verkhotursky Uyezd
Category:Ural Mountains

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