Kusa, Russia

Koussa (Russian Куса ) is a city in Chelyabinsk Oblast (Russia) with 18,792 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located on the western flank of the Southern Urals about 180 km west of the Oblasthauptstadt Chelyabinsk at the mouth of Koussa in the Ai, a left tributary of the Ufa river system in the Kama.

Koussa is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

The city lies on the which opened in 1916, originally West -Ural Railway mentioned railway Kalino ( at Tschussowoi ) Druschinino - Berdjausch.

History

Koussa was born in 1778 in connection with the establishment of ironworks Kussinski Sawod and received on January 18, 1943 city law.

Demographics

Note: Census data (1939 rounded)

Culture and sights

The city has a museum of art casting, which is operated by the Kussaer iron plant since the 1880s.

In these areas of natural beauty, such as rocks in the valley of Ai, and known mineral sites.

Economy

In Koussa there is a machine factory and a plant for the production of artificial and processing of natural gemstones and abrasives, next to the timber industry.