The Municipality of Russell – Binscarth is a rural municipality (RM) in the Parkland Region of Manitoba, Canada.
It is located in the far western part of the province and shares a border with the neighbouring province of Saskatchewan.
[3] It was incorporated on January 1, 2015, via the amalgamation of the RM of Russell, the Town of Russell, and the Village of Binscarth.
[4] The amalgamations were started by the government of Manitoba so that municipalities could reach the minimum population requirement of 1,000 in 1997 for incorporation as a municipality.
[5] In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Russell-Binscarth had a population of 2,596 living in 1,121 of its 1,243 total private dwellings, a change of 6.3% from its 2016 population of 2,442.