Asha

Asha is a city in Russia, the administrative center of the Ashinsky district of the Chelyabinsk region. The population is 29 946 thousand people (2017).

The city is located in the extreme west of the region, near the border with Bashkortostan, at the foot of the Karatau ridge, on the Sim River (tributary of the White River), at the confluence of the Asha River into it, 377 km west of Chelyabinsk.

The railway station of the Kuibyshev railway on the line Ufa - Chelyabinsk.

The city was founded in 1898 in connection with the construction of an iron smelting plant, since 1933 - a city, since 1963 - a city of regional subordination.

The title has two interpretations. One considers the toponym from the point of view of assessing local natural conditions, bringing it closer to the Turkic verb “ash”, “as”, with the meaning “to cross, to pass (over the mountains)”, i.e. the river (Asha), breaking through the mountains. Another interpretation connects the name of the river with the Bashkir tribal name "assa", "asa", "asa", and comes from the name of the river in the primary sources - Assa. Rhode As was a member of the Katai tribe.

Industry: timber chemical plant, metallurgical plant.

Education: several secondary general education schools, industrial technical school, branch of South Ural State University.