En Name: | Berlin |
Ru Name: | Берлин |
Inhabloc Cat: | Rural locality |
Established Title: | Founded |
Established Date: | 1842 |
Berlin (Russian: Берлин) is a rural locality (a village) in Troitsky District, Chelyabinsk Oblast, in the Asian part of Russia, close to the border with Kazakhstan. It has a population of
The settlement was founded in 1842, and named after Berlin, to commemorate the Russian capture of the city in 1760 and 1813.[1]
It is one of several villages in the Chelyabinsk Oblast named after major European cities, other including Varshavka (named after Warsaw), Parizh (named after Paris), Leyptsig (named after Leipzig), Varna (named after Varna) and Bredy (named after Breda).