Kyshtym
Sign in to saveKyshtym () is a town in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located on the eastern slopes of the Southern Ural Mountains northwest of Chelyabinsk, near the town of Ozyorsk. Population: 36,000 (1970).
Key facts
- Russian inhabited locality.en_name
- Kyshtym
- Russian inhabited locality.ru_name
- Кыштым
- Russian inhabited locality.map_label_position
- right
- Russian inhabited locality.image_coa
- Coat of Arms of Kyshtym (Chelyabinsk oblast).png
- Russian inhabited locality.image_flag
- Flag_of_Kyshtym_(Chelyabinsk_oblast).png
- Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject
- Chelyabinsk Oblast
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_city_jur
- Town of Kyshtym
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_ctr_of
- Town of Kyshtym
- Russian inhabited locality.inhabloc_cat
- Town
- Russian inhabited locality.urban_okrug_jur
- Kyshtymsky Urban Okrug
- Russian inhabited locality.mun_admctr_of
- Kyshtymsky Urban Okrug
- Russian inhabited locality.pop_2010census
- 38942
- Russian inhabited locality.established_date
- 1757
- Russian inhabited locality.current_cat_date
- 1934
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Kyshtym () is a town in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located on the eastern slopes of the Southern Ural Mountains northwest of Chelyabinsk, near the town of Ozyorsk. Population: 36,000 (1970).
==History== Kyshtym was established by the Demidovs in 1757 around two factories for production of cast iron and steel. The city emblem shows the Kyshtym Manor House, a Palladian residence of Nikita Demidov Jr. According to Herbert Hoover, a small iron industry had existed there "for one hundred and fifty years", which produced a secret process for generating sheet iron "unusually resistant to rust." The process "consisted of alternately heating the sheets and sweeping them when hot with a wet pine-bough. The effect was to create a coating of iron oxide which was rust-resistant."