Nizhnyaya Tura


Nizhnyaya Tura is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Tura River, north of Yekaterinburg. Population:

History

It was founded in 1754; town status was granted to it in 1949.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of the administrative divisions, it is, together with twenty-one rural localities, incorporated as the Town of Nizhnyaya Tura—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, the Town of Nizhnyaya Tura is incorporated as Nizhneturinsky Urban Okrug.