Kachkanar

Katschkanar (Russian Качканар ) is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast (Russia) with 41 426 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city lies a few kilometers east of the watershed of the Ural Mountains, about 200 km north of the Oblasthauptstadt Yekaterinburg, on the river Wyja, a left tributary of the Tura. The climate is continental.

The city is the Katschkanar Oblast administratively subordinated directly. The city's two villages assumed together with 2,377 inhabitants, so that the total population of the administrative unit " city Katschkanar " is 45 226 (calculated 2009).

Katschkanar is located on a 45 km long at the station Asiatskaja (15 km west of Kushva ) of the former Ural mining railway Perm - Kushva ( station Goroblagodatskaja ) - Yekaterinburg branching railway line ( freight only ).

History

Katschkanar was created in 1958 as a mining settlement in the framework of the commencement of mining known since the 18th century titanium magnetite, and later Vanadiumerz deposits on the eponymous mountain northwest of the city, which were first described in 1771 by Peter Simon Pallas. Back in 1959, the place obtained the status of an urban-type settlement. 1963 was the start of production of the Erzanreicherungswerkes, 1968 was the site of a town.

Population Development

Note: * Census ( rounded ) ** census

Economy

The city Katschkanar lives mainly of the open pit mined vanadium and iron ore as well as their enrichment ( KGOK vanadium Evraz Group ). In addition, there are plants for precast concrete products, electrical engineering ( OOO Remelektro ) and repair of mining equipment ( OAO Metal List).

Sons and daughters of the town

• Yekaterina Bikert ( born 1980 ), athlete