Nizhnyaya Tura
Нижняя Тура
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Location of Nizhnyaya Tura | |
Location of Nizhnyaya Tura Show map of RussiaNizhnyaya Tura (Sverdlovsk Oblast) Show map of Sverdlovsk Oblast | |
Coordinates: 58°37′15″N 59°50′52″E / 58.62083°N 59.84778°E / 58.62083; 59.84778 | |
Country | Russia |
Federal subject | Sverdlovsk Oblast[1] |
Founded | 1754 |
Town status since | 1949 |
Elevation | 205 m (673 ft) |
Population | |
• Total | 22,006 |
• Estimate
(2018)[3]
| 19,883 (−9.6%) |
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• Subordinated to | Town of Nizhnyaya Tura[1] |
• Capitalof | Town of Nizhnyaya Tura |
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• Urban okrug | Nizhneturinsky Urban Okrug[4] |
• Capitalof | Nizhneturinsky Urban Okrug[4] |
Time zone | UTC+5 (MSK+2 ![]() |
Postal code(s)[6] | |
OKTMOID | 65715000001 |
Nizhnyaya Tura (Russian: Ни́жняя Тура) is a towninSverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Tura River (Ob's basin), 254 kilometers (158 mi) north of Yekaterinburg. Population: 22,006 (2010 Russian census);[2] 24,247 (2002 Census);[7] 26,268 (1989 Soviet census).[8]
It was founded in 1754; town status was granted to it in 1949.[citation needed] Nizhnyaya Tura railway station was opened in 1906.[9]
Within the framework of the administrative divisions, it is, together with twenty-one rural localities, incorporated as the Town of Nizhnyaya Tura[1]—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.[10] As a municipal division, the Town of Nizhnyaya Tura is incorporated as Nizhneturinsky Urban Okrug.[4]
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