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Kemerovo Oblast
Kemerovo Oblast , also known as Kuzbass after the Kuznetsk Basin, is a federal subject of Russia , located in southwestern Siberia, where the West Siberian Plain meets the South Siberian mountains...
, 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 on the Kondoma River
Kondoma River
Kondoma is a river in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. It is a left tributary of the Tom River. It is 392 km long, with a drainage basin of 8,270 km². The towns of Tashtagol, Osinniki and Kaltan is situated by the Kondoma. Its main tributaries are the Mundybash, Tesh, and Telbes Rivers....
, 338 kilometres (210 mi) south of Kemerovo
Kemerovo
Kemerovo is an industrial city in Russia, situated on the Tom River, east-northeast of Novosibirsk. It is the administrative center of Kemerovo Oblast, located in the major coal mining region of the Kuznetsk Basin...
. Population:
It was founded in 1946 and was granted urban-type settlement
Urban-type settlement
Urban-type settlement ; , selyshche mis'koho typu ) is an official designation for a type of locality used in some of the countries of the former Soviet Union...
status in 1950 and town status in 1959.