🇷🇺 Asha (Аша́) is a town and the administrative centre of Ashinsky District in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Sim River (a tributary of the Belaya), 377 km (234 mi) west of Chelyabinsk, the administrative centre of the oblast.
History It was founded in 1898 and was granted town status on June 20, 1933.
On June 4, 1989, the Ufa train disaster—a huge liquefied petroleum gas explosion that killed or injured 1,200 people—occurred near Asha.
Geography: Administrative status Within the framework of administrative divisions, Asha serves as the administrative centre of Ashinsky District. As an administrative division, it is incorporated within Ashinsky District as the Town of Asha. As a municipal division, the Town of Asha is incorporated within Ashinsky Municipal District as Ashinskoye Urban Settlement.
Sport Asha is known for Adzhigardak, its ski resort.
Asha has a population of over 31,881 people. Asha also forms the centre of the wider Ashinsky District which has a combined population of over 64,779 people.
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Twin Towns - Sister Cities Asha has links with:
🇧🇾 Orsha, Belarus🏴 North Tyneside 55.012
🇷🇺 Novosibirsky District 55.017
🇷🇺 Novosibirsk 55.05
🏴 Cramlington 55.087
🏴 South Shields 54.983
🏴 Newcastle upon Tyne 54.979
🏴 South Tyneside 54.964
🇮🇪 Letterkenny 54.957
🇲🇺 Beau-Bassin Rose-Hill 57.467
🇲🇺 Beau Bassin-Rose Hill 57.471
🇲🇺 Quatre Bornes 57.479
🇲🇺 Vacoas-Phoenix 57.493
🇲🇺 Port-Louis 57.496
Locations Near: Asha 57.2667,55
🇷🇺 Sterlitamak 55.937,53.637 d: 174.4
🇷🇺 Salavat 55.927,53.362 d: 201.9
🇷🇺 Magnitogorsk 58.986,53.408 d: 209.4
🇷🇺 Zlatoust 59.649,55.211 d: 153.3
🇷🇺 Dyurtyuli 54.867,55.483 d: 161.3
🇷🇺 Kungur 56.944,57.436 d: 271.6
🇷🇺 Miass 60.125,55.083 d: 182.3
🇷🇺 Perm 56.232,58.012 d: 340.8
🇷🇺 Neftekamsk 54.239,56.091 d: 225.8
Antipodal to: Asha -122.733,-55
🇵🇫 Papeete -149.566,-17.537 d: 15266.6
🇨🇱 Coyhaique -72.067,-45.567 d: 16354.7
🇨🇱 Port Montt -72.933,-41.467 d: 16131
🇨🇱 Puerto Montt -72.933,-41.467 d: 16131
🇨🇱 Valdivia -73.233,-39.8 d: 16028.6
🇨🇱 Punta Arenas -70.91,-53.162 d: 16706.4
🇨🇱 Temuco -72.667,-38.733 d: 15912.6
🇨🇱 San Pedro de la Paz -73.1,-36.833 d: 15793.8
🇨🇱 Chiguayante -73.017,-36.917 d: 15795.1
🇨🇱 Concepción -73.05,-36.817 d: 15789.3