Volchansk (Russian: Волча́нск) is a town under the administrative jurisdiction of the Town of Karpinsk in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Volchanka River (a right tributary of the Sosva in the Ob's basin), 452 kilometers (281 mi) north of Yekaterinburg, the administrative center of the oblast.

[citation needed] Town status was granted to Volchansk in 1956.

[14] As a municipal division, Volchansk, together with two rural localities under the administrative jurisdiction of the Town of Karpinsk, is incorporated as Volchansky Urban Okrug.

[4] A tram system started operating in Volchansk on December 31, 1951.

The total length of the tram line is about 7 kilometers (4.3 mi).