Belaya Kholunitsa

Belaya Kholunitsa (Russian: Бе́лая Холуни́ца) is a town and the administrative center of Belokholunitsky District in Kirov Oblast, Russia, located on the river Belaya Kholunitsa (Vyatka's tributary), 82 kilometers (51 mi) northeast of Kirov, the administrative center of the oblast.

It was founded in 1764 due to the construction of an ironworks as the settlement of Kholunitsky (Холуницкий).

[citation needed] It was granted town status in 1965.

[1] As an administrative division, it is, together with nine rural localities, incorporated within Belokholunitsky District as the Town of Belaya Kholunitsa.

There are deposits of iron ore, clay, gravel, lime, rubble, and peat in the town.