Mikhaylovsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast

Mikhaylovsk (Russian: Миха́йловск) is a town in Nizhneserginsky District of Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the shores of Mikhaylovsky Pond, 163 kilometers (101 mi) southwest of Yekaterinburg, the administrative center of the oblast.

[9] It was founded in 1805 as Mikhaylovsky Zavod (Russian: Миха́йловский Заво́д).

[citation needed] It was granted town status and given its present name in 1961.

[citation needed] Within the framework of the administrative divisions, it is, together with one rural locality (the settlement of Mikhaylovsky Zavod), incorporated within Nizhneserginsky District as the Town of Mikhaylovsk.

[1] As a municipal division, the Town of Mikhaylovsk, together with ten rural localities in Nizhneserginsky District, is incorporated within Nizhneserginsky Municipal District as Mikhaylovskoye Urban Settlement.