Ivdel (; Mansi: Сапсаус, ''Sapsayas'') is a

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Sverdlovsk Oblast Sverdlovsk Oblast ( rus, Свердловская область, Sverdlovskaya oblastʹ, p=svʲɪrdˈlofskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia located in the Ural Federal District. Its administrative center is the c ...

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, located on the Ivdel River ( Ob's basin) near its

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with the Lozva River, north of

Yekaterinburg Yekaterinburg (, ; ), alternatively Romanization of Russian, romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk ( ; 1924–1991), is a city and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Ural Federal District, Russia. The ci ...

, the

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of the

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. Population:

History

Lozvinsky gorodok (), the first Russian wooden fortress east of the

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, was built in 1589 on the eastern bank of the Ivdel-Lozva river confluence, about 9 kilometres southeast of today's Ivdel. It was known as a gold-mining settlement of Nikito-Ivdel (), and later Ivdel, since 1831. ''Ivdellag''

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was formed here in 1937. Town status was granted in 1943.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of the administrative divisions, it is, together with the work settlement of Pelym and thirty-three rural localities, incorporated as the

Town A town is a type of a human settlement, generally larger than a village but smaller than a city. The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ...

of Ivdel—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the

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.Law #30-OZ As a municipal division, Ivdel and twenty-nine rural localities are incorporated as Ivdelsky Urban Okrug.Law #85-OZ The urban-type settlement of Pelym, together with four other rural localities, is incorporated separately as Pelym Urban Okrug.

Climate

Ivdel has a

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(

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''Dfc''), with long, cold winters and short, mild warm summers.

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is moderate and is somewhat higher in summer than at other times of the year.

Notable people

* Ștefan Balmez - Bessarabian Bulgarian politician who was imprisoned at the labor camp in Ivdel * Iryna Bekeshkina - Ukrainian sociologist and political scholar * Andrei Mironov - Russian artist * Ștefan Pirogan - Romanian politician who died in imprisonment at Ivdel * Andrei Timofeyev - Russian football player

References

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External links

Official website of Ivdel

Ivdel Business Directory
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