Kizel is a town in Perm Krai, Russia, located on the Kizel River, 200km northeast of Perm, the administrative center of the krai. Population: 60,700 .HistoryTown status was granted to Kizel in 1926.Administrative and municipal statusWithin the framework of administrative divisions, it is, together with six rural localities, incorporated as the town of krai significance of Kizel—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, the town of Kizel, together with one rural locality (the crossing loop of posyolok Rasik), is incorporated as Kizelovskoye Urban Settlement within Kizelovsky Municipal District and serves as the municipal district's administrative center. The remaining five rural localities are grouped into four rural settlements within Kizelovsky Municipal District.