Kyshtym

Year of foundation – 1757
Territory – 967 sq. km

Nearest railway station – Kyshtym

Distance to the region center - 60 km
Population – 50,0 thousand people

City status from 20.12.1934

The city is situated on the eastern slope of the Middle Urals, among numerous lakes, near the cradle of the river Techa (the Ob basin). The climatic and balneological resort Uvildy is located in the surroundings of Kyshtym.

The city was founded as a result of the construction of Verhne- and Nizhnekyshtymski cast-iron and iron-producing plants. It is named after the river Kyshtym.

Sights

Regional museum

The so called White House is the former residence of the Kyshtym plant owners (first half of the 19th cent.) and two churches (18^th and 19^th centuries).

 
Institutes of higher education

The branch of Chelyabinsk state technical university (456870 Chelyabinsk region, Kyshtym, Lenin st., 46).

City's economy

In 1755 Nikita Demidov founded two plants on the river Kyshtymka: iron-cast and iron-producing. Products from these plants with the Demidov trade mark "Russian Sable" were noted for high quality and became famous all over the world.  Today this tradition is maintained by the leaders of Russian non-ferrous metallurgy, specialists of the Kyshtym copper-electrolytic plant.  

The leading branches of industry are power industry, non-ferrous metallurgy, machine-building, metal-working, food industry, industry of building materials.

In 2001 industry comprised 95,5%, agriculture – 0,1%, transport and communications – 0,4%, trade and public catering – 0,2% in the structure of production. 

Plants: copper-electrolytic, machine building, abrasive materials plant, radio plant, Taigin graphite-vermiculite association, kaolin-ceramic and ore mining and processing enterprises.  

Dairy and meat farming, poultry keeping prevail in agriculture. Potato, vegetable, fruit and berry growing is developed.