title: Kachkanar
text: # Kachkanar
  
  Kachkanar (Russian: Качкана́р) is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located between the Isa and Vyya Rivers in the Tura River's basin, 205 kilometers (127 mi) north of Yekaterinburg, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: 41,426 (2010 Census); 44,664 (2002 Census); 48,251 (1989 Census).
  
  ## Administrative and municipal status
  
  Within the framework of the administrative divisions, it is, together with two rural localities, incorporated as the Town of Kachkanar—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, the Town of Kachkanar is incorporated as Kachkanarsky Urban Okrug.
  
  ## Economy and transportation
  
  The town is served by Kachkanar railway station, connected with a 44-kilometer (27 mi) long branch line to the Perm–Nizhny Tagil–Yekaterinburg main railway line. There is an open-pit mine to the north.
  
  ## Twin towns and sister cities
  
  Kachkanar is a sister city of:
  
  * Sëlva, Italy
  * Maladzyechna, Belarus
  