Karpinsk
Sign in to saveKarpinsk () is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Turya River (Ob's basin), north of Yekaterinburg, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: The town is named for mineralogist and geologist Alexander Karpinsky.
Key facts
- Russian town.en_name
- Karpinsk
- Russian town.ru_name
- Карпинск
- Russian town.image_skyline
- Вид на старый город с водонапорной башни.JPG
- Russian town.image_caption
- View of Karpinsk
- Russian town.map_label_position
- right
- Russian town.image_coa
- Coat of Arms of Karpinsk (Sverdlovsk oblast).png
- Russian town.image_flag
- Flag of Karpinsk (Sverdlovsk oblast).png
- Russian town.federal_subject
- Sverdlovsk Oblast
- Russian town.adm_city_jur
- Town of Karpinsk
- Russian town.adm_ctr_of
- Town of Karpinsk
- Russian town.inhabloc_cat
- Town
- Russian town.urban_okrug_jur
- Karpinsk Urban Okrug
- Russian town.mun_admctr_of
- Karpinsk Urban Okrug
- Russian town.pop_2010census
- 29113
- Russian town.established_date
- 1941
- Russian town.current_cat_date
- 1941
- Russian town.postal_codes
- 624930–624933, 624936
- Russian town.website
- http://karpinsk.midural.ru/
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Karpinsk () is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Turya River (Ob's basin), north of Yekaterinburg, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: The town is named for mineralogist and geologist Alexander Karpinsky.
==History== The settlement of Bogoslovsk () was founded in either 1759 or in 1769. It remained one of the largest copper production centers in the Urals until 1917. Coal deposits started to be mined in 1911. In 1941, the settlement of Bogoslovsky () merged with the nearby settlement of Ugolny () to form the town of Karpinsk.