Varshavka, Chelyabinsk Oblast

Varshavka (Варшавка) is a rural locality (a village) in Kartalinsky District, Chelyabinsk Oblast, in the Asian part of Russia. It has a population of and is situated on the Karagayly-Ayat River.

History
The settlement was founded in 1842, and named after the Polish city of Warsaw, to commemorate the successful storming by the Tsarist troops on 6 September 1831 during the Polish November Uprising.

It is one of several villages in the Chelyabinsk Oblast named after major European cities, other including Parizh (named after Paris), Berlin (named after Berlin), Leyptsig (named after Leipzig), Varna (named after Varna) and Bredy (named after Breda).