Verkhoturye
Sign in to saveVerkhoturye () is a historical town and the administrative center of Verkhotursky District of Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located in the middle Ural Mountains on the left bank of the Tura River north of Yekaterinburg. Population: 7,815 (2002 Census; 10,900 (1967).
Key facts
- Russian inhabited locality.en_name
- Verkhoturye
- Russian inhabited locality.ru_name
- Верхоту́рье
- Russian inhabited locality.image_skyline
- Verkhoturye TrinityCathedral DJI 0116.jpg
- Russian inhabited locality.image_caption
- View of the town
- Russian inhabited locality.map_label_position
- right
- Russian inhabited locality.image_coa
- Coat of Arms of Verkhoturie (Sverdlovsk oblast) coat ot arms.png
- Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject
- Sverdlovsk Oblast
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_ctr_of1
- Verkhotursky District
- Russian inhabited locality.inhabloc_cat
- Town
- Russian inhabited locality.pop_latest
- 8593
- Russian inhabited locality.pop_latest_date
- 2019
- Russian inhabited locality.established_date
- 1598
- Russian inhabited locality.current_cat_date
- 1598
- Russian inhabited locality.postal_codes
- 624380–624382
- Russian inhabited locality.dialing_codes
- 34389
- Russian inhabited locality.website
- adm-verhotury.ru
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Verkhoturye () is a historical town and the administrative center of Verkhotursky District of Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located in the middle Ural Mountains on the left bank of the Tura River north of Yekaterinburg. Population: 7,815 (2002 Census; 10,900 (1967).
==History== Verkhoturye was founded in 1598 by Vasily Golovin and Ivan Voyeykov on the site of the Vogul settlement of Neromkar. There were major fires in 1674 and 1738. The railroad arrived in 1906. It lost town status in 1926 and regained it in 1947. Two oil pipelines pass through the area and there are plans to build an oil refinery.