Ufa

Ufa (English) Уфа (Russian) Өфө (Bashkir)
—  Inhabited locality  —
Ufa
Coordinates:
Holiday	June 12
Administrative status
Country	Russia
Federal subject	Republic of Bashkortostan
Capital of	Bashkortostan
Administrative center of	Ufimsky District
Municipal status (as of February 2008)
Urban okrug	Ufa Urban Okrug
Head	Pavel Kachkayev
Representative body	Council
Statistics
Area	710.16 km2 (274.19 sq mi)
Population (2002 Census)	1,042,437 inhabitants[1]
- Rank	11th
- Density	1,468 /km2 (3,800 /sq mi)[2]
Population (2010)	1,038,100 inhabitants
Time zone	YEKT/YEKST (UTC+5/+6)
Founded	1574
Postal code(s)	450000—450140
Dialing code(s)	+7 347
Official website

Ufa (Russian: Уфа́; Bashkir: Өфө) is the capital of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia. Ufa is the capital and the administrative, political, economic, scientific and cultural center of the republic. Ufa is one of the largest cities in Russia. The population is 1,038,100 (2010 est.); 1,042,437 (2002 Census). In terms of ethnic composition, it is dominated by Russians, Tatars and Bashkirs. An inhabitant of the city is called an "ufimets". Ufa is famous for its oil, gas, minerals, and Bashkir honey. The distance from Moscow by train is 1567 km. Estimated travel time by car is 32 hours (1357 km from Moscow). Estimated travel time by flight is two hours (from Moscow).

Geography

View of Ufa over the frozen Belaya River

Ufa is situated in eastern Europe near its land boundary with Asia, at the confluence of the Belaya and the Ufa rivers, on low hills to the west of southern Urals.

History

Early colour photograph of Ufa taken in 1910 by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky

The city began as a fortress built on the orders of Ivan IV in 1574, and originally bore the name of the hill it stood on, Tura-Tau. The city began to be called Ufa, meaning "small" in Turkic, by locals and the name stuck. It achieved town status in 1586. In 1802, Ufa became the principal city of Bashkortostan.

In 1918, Ufa was the residence of the Provisional All-Russian Government.

Education

Educational institutions include:

• Bashkir State University,
• Bashkir State Teachers Training University named after M.Akmulla,
• Ufa State Aviation Technical University,
• Ufa State Petroleum Technological University,
• Ufa Architectural University,
• Ufa Agricultural University,

and others.

Bashkir State University (BSU)

Ufa State Petroleum Technological University (USPTU)

Population

Nationally, dominated by Russian (50,2%), Bashkir (14,8%) and Tatars (28,1%). In addition, numerous (more than 1000 people) are Ukrainians (17,772 people)., Chuvash (10,586 people)., Mari (9616 people)., Belarusians (5556 people), Mordovians (3975 people)., Armenian (2822 people)., Germans (2213 people)., Jews (2082 people)., Azeris (2075 people) ^[3].

Population Dynamics

Authorities

Local Government The bodies of local self-government of Ufa are:

• Council - a representative body. Formed of 35 deputies for 4 years.
• Chairman of the Board - the head of the city district. Term of 4 years.
• Administration of urban district. The structure of the administration approved by the Council on the proposal of the head of administration.
• Head of Administration manages the administration on the principles of unity of command. He was appointed under a contract entered into by the results of the competition. Term of office of the head of administration limited to the period of office of the Council of the convocation. ^[4]

Republican and federal

• Electoral Commission of Urban District
• Government of the Republic of Belarus
• Republican ministries

Courts ((Also | Judicial system of the Russian Federation)) In Ufa is Constitutional Court, Arbitration Court and Supreme Court of the Republic of Bashkortostan ^[5], and War, world and district court.

Industry

Urban enterprises engaged in oil refining, chemistry, mechanical engineering. The economy of Ufa amount of fuel and energy and engineering complexes.

The volume of shipped goods of own production, made its own works and services to manufacturing industry in 2009 - 185.0 billion rubles. ((DB regions of the Volga district))

In Ufa holds about 200 large and medium industrial enterprises. ^[6]

Religion

Mosque "Hamza-Hadgi"

The main religious confession mi in the city are Islam (Sunni) and Orthodox Christianity (the city - the center of Diocese of Ufa and Sterlitamak Russian Orthodox Church). Ufa is the seat of the central authorities and Mufti Central Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of Russia and European CIS countries.

Economy

There are some important enterprises in Ufa:

• UMPO (Ufa Engine Industrial Association) (Russian: ОАО «Уфимское моторостроительное производственное объединение»): founded in 1925 whose main products are jet engines^[7]
• Bashneft (Russian: ОАО «АНК «Башнефть»»): oil and gas company^[8]
• UFNC (Ufaneftekhim) (Russian: ОАО «Уфанефтехим»): oil and petrochemical company^[9]

Ufa is famous for its oil, gas, minerals, Bashkir honey, kumis. Bashkir honey is one of the best varieties of honey in Russia and is one of "the visit cards" of Bashkortostan.

Transport

Modern view of Ufa.

Ufa is linked by railways to the rest of Russia, having a railway station on a historic branch of Transsib. The M7 motorway links the city to Kazan and Moscow and the M5 motorway links Ufa to Moscow and to the Asian part of Russia.

Ufa International Airport has international flights to Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, as well as domestic flights to many Russian cities and towns.

Sport

Ufa's football club is FC Bashinformsvyaz-Dynamo Ufa play in the Russian Second Division. The city ice hockey club Salavat Yulaev Ufa play in the Kontinental Hockey league (KHL) and were five-time champions of the Russian Major League. The Ural Volleyball club are also based in Ufa.

Famous Citizens

Salavat Yulayev memorial

Famous citizens of Ufa include :

• Sergey Aksakov, writer;
• Vladimir Spivakov, musician;
• Salawat Yulayev, rebel;
• Mirsaid Sultangaliev, muslim bolshevik,
• Mikhail Nesterov, artist;
• Rudolf Nureyev, dancer;
• Vera Timanova, pianist;
• Andrei Zyuzin, Alexander Semak and Igor Kravchuk, NHL ice hockey players;
• Zemfira, musician;
• Valerian Albanov, navigator of ill-fated Arctic ship St. Anna;
• Yuri Shevchuk, musician, and his rock band DDT were Ufa residents for some time.
• Ernest Muldashev, ophthalmologist
• Daniil Kvyat, future Formula 1 star
• Boris Kolker, member of the Academy of Esperanto

International relations

Twin towns — Sister cities

Ufa is twinned with:

• Ankara, Turkey.
• Halle, Germany.
• Las Pinas, Philippines.
• Orenburg, Russia.
• Paldiski, Estonia.

Web-camera in Ufa

• multimedia map

See also

• Ufa Metro
• Ufa train disaster
• Salavat Yulaev Ufa hockey team

References

External links

• City of Ufa official website (English)
• Everything you need to know about friendly Ufa, by David Coppard (English) Mirrored version (Russian) (English)
• Ufa on the map of Russia (Russian)
• Ufa city views (English)

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