Yemanzhelinsk facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Yemanzhelinsk (English) Еманжелинск (Russian)
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Coat of arms	Flag
Administrative status
Country	Russia
Federal subject	Chelyabinsk Oblast
Administrative district	Yemanzhelinsky District
Town	Yemanzhelinsk
Municipal status
Municipal district	Yemanzhelinsky Municipal District
Urban settlement	Yemanzhelinskoye Urban Settlement
Statistics
Population (2010 Census, preliminary)	30,216 inhabitants
Time zone	YEKT (UTC+06:00)
Founded	1770
Town status since	September 25, 1951
Previous names	Yemanzhelinskaya
Postal code(s)	456580–456582, 456584
Dialing code(s)	+7 35138
Official website: http://emanjelinsk.ru/

Yemanzhelinsk (Russian: Еманжели́нск) is a town and the administrative center of Yemanzhelinsky District in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located near the border with Kazakhstan on the eastern slopes of the Southern Ural Mountains, 50 kilometers (31 mi) south of Chelyabinsk, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: 30,216 (2010 Census); 30,202 (2002 Census); 31,153 (1989 Census).

History

Founded in 1770 as a Cossack village, it has been known as the stanitsa of Yemanzhelinskaya (Еманжелинская) since 1866. It became a coal mining settlement in 1930–1931, which was granted town status on September 25, 1951. It was one of the places closest to the hypocenter of the blast from the 2013 Russian meteor event.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Yemanzhelinsk serves as the administrative center of Yemanzhelinsky District. As an administrative division, it is, together with three rural localities, incorporated within Yemanzhelinsky District as the Town of Yemanzhelinsk. As a municipal division, the Town of Yemanzhelinsk is incorporated within Yemanzhelinsky Municipal District as Yemanzhelinskoye Urban Settlement.

Notable people

• Leontii Voitovych (1951–2023), academic historian
• Evgeny Bareev (b. 1966), chess grandmaster
• Irina Shayk (b. 1986), model