Karabash

a city in Cheliabinsk Oblast, RSFSR. It is the terminus (Pirit) of a branch of the Sverdlovsk-Cheliabinsk railroad line. Population, 20, 000 (1970). In 1910 a copper smeltery was built there as part of a mining and metallurgical combine (for the extraction of copper and the production of blister copper and zinc concentrates). The blister copper that it produces is now sent to a plant for the processing of electrolytic copper in Kyshtym. Karabash was first established at the beginning of the 18th century. It became a city in 1933.

an urban-type settlement in Bugul’ma Raion, Tatar ASSR. It is located on the Zai River (tributary of the Kama), on a highway, 27 km northwest of the Bugul’ma railroad station (on the Ul’ianovsk-Ufa line). Petroleum is extracted. Karabash is the site of a plant for the production of asphalt.