Minyar () is a

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Ashinsky District Ashinsky District () is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-seven in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia.Resolution #161 It is located in the west of the oblast. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is th ...

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, located in the valley of the

Sim River The Sim (, ''Eśem''; ) is a river in Chelyabinsk Oblast and the Bashkortostan, Republic of Bashkortostan in Russia. It is a tributary of the Belaya (Kama), Belaya, part of the Volga Drainage basin, watershed. Its length is , and its drainage basi ...

at its

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with the Minyar River, west of

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, the

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of the

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. Population:

History

It was founded in 1771. Town status was granted to it on May 14, 1943.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is, together with one

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(the settlement of Volkovo), incorporated within Ashinsky District as the

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of Minyar.Resolution #161 As a municipal division, the Town of Minyar is incorporated within Ashinsky Municipal District as Minyarskoye Urban Settlement.

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* {{Use mdy dates, date=December 2012 Cities and towns in Chelyabinsk Oblast Ufa Governorate Populated places established in 1771