It is believed that the city was founded in 1679 by Timothy Nevezhin, who felled a hut on the bank of the Tobol near the ancient burial mound. On the picturesque bank of the river and
on the bank of the Tobol near the ancient burial mound. On the picturesque bank of the river and the fertile land the first settlers were drawn. Soon grew a prison and a settlement. The first name is Tsarevo Gorodishche - the settlement received a burial mound on the Tsar's Hill. In the XX century, the mound was opened by an expedition led by the Ural archaeologist Konstantin Salnikov. It was established that the mound belongs to the III-IV centuries AD. e., was a grave, which was first plundered soon after the burial and to our time, almost nothing left
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Kurgan is a city in the Russian Federation,
the administrative center of the Kurgan region. It is
located in the Urals Federal District, along the banks of the Tobol River (mainly on the left bank). The population of the city in early 2017 is 322 042 people. With the suburbs (Ketovo, Vargas and other settlements), a metropolitan agglomeration with a population of 360,000 people
general characteristics it refers to the temperate continental (transitional
from moderately continental to sharply continental), characterized by features peculiar to the forest-steppe zone of the entire Southern Urals (with a cold little snowy winter and hot, dry summers). The Ural mountains, preventing the passage of moist air masses, enhance the continentality of the climate. A characteristic feature of the climate is inadequate hydration with periodically recurring aridity