Kachkanar

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Coordinates: 58.6994° N 59.49° E

Coat of arms of Kachkanar
Coat of arms of Kachkanar

Kachkanar (Russian: Качканар) is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located between the Isa and Vyya Rivers 205 km north of Yekaterinburg. Population: 44,664 (2002 Census); 48,251 (1989 Census).

It was founded in 1957[citation needed] as an ore mining settlement and received urban-type settlement status in 1959. Town status since 1968.