Korkino
Encyclopedia
Korkino is a town in Chelyabinsk Oblast
, Russia
, located on the eastern slope of the Southern Urals, 42 kilometres (26.1 mi) south of Chelyabinsk
. Population:
It was founded as a village of the same name in the second half of the 18th century. It was granted town status on October 2, 1942.
Korkino is an important coal
-mining center.
Chelyabinsk Oblast
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, 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 eastern slope of the Southern Urals, 42 kilometres (26.1 mi) south of Chelyabinsk
Chelyabinsk
Chelyabinsk is a city and the administrative center of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located in the northwestern side of the oblast, south of Yekaterinburg, just to the east of the Ural Mountains, on the Miass River. Population: -History:...
. Population:
It was founded as a village of the same name in the second half of the 18th century. It was granted town status on October 2, 1942.
Korkino is an important coal
Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams. The harder forms, such as anthracite coal, can be regarded as metamorphic rock because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure...
-mining center.