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'''Kushva''' ({{lang-ru|Кушва}}) is a [[types of inhabited localities in Russia|town]] in [[Sverdlovsk Oblast]], [[Russia]], located in the [[Ural Mountains]] near [[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]], 1890]]

Originally a mining settlement founded in 1735 at the [[Blagodat Mountain]] to explore its [[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 [[subdivisions of Russia#Administrative divisions|framework of the administrative divisions]], it is, together with the [[types of inhabited localities in Russia|town]] of [[Verkhnyaya Tura]] and twelve rural localities, incorporated as the '''[[City of federal subject significance|Town]] of Kushva'''<ref name="OKATO">{{OKATO reference|65 470}}</ref>—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the [[administrative divisions of Sverdlovsk Oblast|districts]].<ref name="SverdlovskO_adm">Law #30-OZ</ref> As a [[subdivisions of Russia#Municipal divisions|municipal division]], 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 [[impact crater|crater]] on [[Mars]] was named in honor of the town.

==References==
===Notes===
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===Sources===
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*{{RussiaAdmMunRef|sve|mun|list}}

{{Cities and towns in Sverdlovsk Oblast}}
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[[Category:Cities and towns in Sverdlovsk Oblast]]
[[Category:Verkhotursky Uyezd]]
[[Category:Ural Mountains]]