En Name: | Kasli |
Ru Name: | Касли |
Coordinates: | 55.9°N 106°W |
Map Label Position: | right |
Image Coa: | Kasli COA (2011).jpg |
Federal Subject: | Chelyabinsk Oblast |
Adm District Jur: | Kaslinsky District |
Adm Selsoviet Jur: | Kasli |
Adm Selsoviet Type: | Town |
Adm Ctr Of1: | Kaslinsky District |
Adm Ctr Of2: | Town of Kasli |
Inhabloc Cat: | Town |
Mun District Jur: | Kaslinsky Municipal District |
Urban Settlement Jur: | Kaslinskoye Urban Settlement |
Mun Admctr Of1: | Kaslinsky Municipal District |
Mun Admctr Of2: | Kaslinskoye Urban Settlement |
Pop 2010Census: | 16969 |
Established Date: | 1747 |
Current Cat Date: | July 29, 1942 |
Prev Name1: | Kaslinsky |
Postal Codes: | 456830, 456832–456835 |
Website: | http://www.kasli.org/ |
Kasli (Russian: Касли́) is a town and the administrative center of Kaslinsky District in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located among several lakes on the eastern slope of the Middle Urals, 87km (54miles) northwest of Chelyabinsk, the administrative center of the oblast. Population:
It was founded in 1747 as the settlement of Kaslinsky (Russian: Каслинский) around a foundry. Town status was granted to it on July 29, 1942.
The Kasli plant became famous for its cast iron castings in the mid-19th century. In 1900, an open-work pavilion was molded from metal for the international exhibition. It is now exhibited in the Yekaterinburg picture gallery.
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Kasli serves as the administrative center of Kaslinsky District.[1] As an administrative division, it is, together with one rural locality (the settlement of Prigorodny), incorporated within Kaslinsky District as the Town of Kasli. As a municipal division, the Town of Kasli is incorporated within Kaslinsky Municipal District as Kaslinskoye Urban Settlement.
The leading branches of industry are non-ferrous metallurgy, machine-building, and metal-working. There is also a radio plant and a clothes factory.
Dairy and meat farming prevails in agriculture. Potato growing is developed.
Many renowned historical artistic sculptures and figures at Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as the iron furniture at the Winter Palace, was produced by the Kasli factory.