Asbest is located in Russia (Sverdlovsk Oblast) and time zone Asia/Yekaterinburg.
Places nearby are Malysheva, Reftinskiy and Zarechnyy.
Yekaterinburg is 70 km away, Kazan is 996 km away and Nizhniy Novgorod is 1,398 km away as the crow flies.
Distances from Asbest to the most important cities in Russia and the world.
57.0099300°
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Legal and regulatory issues involving the mineral asbestos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos_and_the_law