The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Beloretsk

a city in Bashkir ASSR, near the headwaters of the Belaia River (tributary of the Kama), with a railroad station 106 km from Magnitogorsk. Population, 66,000 (1969).

Beloretsk is one of the oldest mining settlements in the Southern Urals. It arose in 1762 along with the construction of a metallurgical plant, on the basis of which the M. I. Kalinin Beloretsk Metallurgical Combine was created. There is also a metal-working plant. The evening division of the Magnitogorsk Mining and Metallurgical Institute, a metallurgy technicum, a medical school, and a pedagogical school are located in Beloretsk.

REFERENCE

Borozinets, L. G., and A. I. Koz’min. Beloretsk. Ufa, 1965.

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