Kouchva

Kouchva (in Russian: Кушва) is a city of the Oblast de Sverdlovsk in Russia. It is in the north of the the Ural, to 198 km in the north of Iekaterinbourg and to 50 km in the north of Nijni-Taguil. It counts: 33600 inhabitants in 2007.

With the site of the current city were developed, starting from 1735, of the mines, the forging mills and other establishments which exploited the important iron ore layer of the Blagodat mountain, in the east of the village. An iron and steel plant was built at the edge of Kouchva, a small affluent of the river Toura, and the agglomeration took the name of Kouchvinski Zavod (Кушвинскийзавод) or " Machine of Kouchva". In 1925, Kouchvinski Zavod reached the statute of city and took the name of Kouchva the following year.

Kouchva is a railway crossroads, where the railway coming from Perm joined the line Iekaterinbourg- Sérov.

The exploitation of the iron ore of the Blagodat mountain still plays a central role in the economic life of the city. This layer of several hundreds of million tons of iron still feeds the iron and steel industry of the north of the Ural. But of the mines closed and this mining is declining, which involved the reduction in the population. Other industries are the construction of machines (in particular railway material), the transformation of wood and the construction materials.

A crater of the planet Mars was named in the honor of the city.

Population

External bond

Kouchva on WikiMapia

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