Gornozavodsk, Perm Krai
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Gornozavodsk is a town and the administrative center of Gornozavodsky District
Gornozavodsky District
Gornozavodsky District is an administrative district of Perm Krai, Russia; one of the thirty-three in the krai. Municipally, it is incorporated as Gornozavodsky Municipal District. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the town of Gornozavodsk...

 of Perm Krai
Perm Krai
Perm Krai is a federal subject of Russia that came into existence on December 1, 2005 as a result of the 2004 referendum on the merger of Perm Oblast and Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug. The city of Perm became the administrative center of the new federal subject...

, Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

, located 192 kilometres (119.3 mi) northeast of Perm
Perm
Perm is a city and the administrative center of Perm Krai, Russia, located on the banks of the Kama River, in the European part of Russia near the Ural Mountains. From 1940 to 1957 it was named Molotov ....

. Population:

It was founded in 1947 as a settlement around a cement
Cement
In the most general sense of the word, a cement is a binder, a substance that sets and hardens independently, and can bind other materials together. The word "cement" traces to the Romans, who used the term opus caementicium to describe masonry resembling modern concrete that was made from crushed...

 plant near the railway station
Train station
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of Pashiya . The settlement of Novopashiysky formed by 1950. It was renamed Gornozavodsk and granted town status in 1965.
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