Kurtamysh


Kurtamysh

 

a city (settlement until 1956) and the center of Kurtamysh Raion, Kurgan Oblast, RSFSR. Kurtamysh is situated on the Kurtamysh River (a tributary of the Tobol River), 52 km south of the Iurgamysh railroad station on the Chelia-binsk-Kurgan line, and 88 km southwest of Kurgan. Population, 16,000 (1972). Kurtamysh has a mechanical repair shop, a cheese dairy, a brickyard, furniture and clothing factories, a lumber procurement and distribution establishment, an agricultural technicum, and a teachers college.