Biography in Ufa

An experienced traveler Anastasia Merzlikina 4 Ufa, the capital of Bashkiria, will tell everything about a trip to Baikal in his lecture. They come here to try dishes of national cuisine, admire the collection of Sarmatian gold, see the monument to Salavat Yulaev, to admire the Belaya River. There are many museums, parks, entertainment places in the city. Ufa is considered the Russian capital of track motors.

Only here you can see the monument to the Kartitsa and the beautiful Cathedral Mosque "Lyalya-Tulip" with minarets in the form of buds of a flowering tulip. Ufa spread out in the place where two tributaries fall into the Belaya River - the Dema and Ufa River and Ufa on the banks of the Belaya Bashkir capital are a hundred kilometers west of the Ural ridge. She spreads in the place where two tributaries - the Dema and Ufa river and Ufa fall into the Belaya River.

The city occupies the entire Ufa peninsula. In geographically, the area belongs to the Prince Plain. The size of the city is 53x30 km. In area, he ranks fifth among Russian cities. The population reaches 1.1 million people, and almost one and a half million with the suburbs. The name of the city and the river of the same name still causes disputes. According to one version, it came from the Bashkir word “Ufa”, which means “dark water”.

However, in the same language it has another meaning - a “hill”. In the Bashkir language, it migrated from the Turks. According to the third version, the name came from the Bashkir tribe Ufei, which lived in these places in antiquity. Kunitsa is a symbol of Ufa climate in the city moderately continental, with high humidity. Summer is quite warm. Winter is not very cold. This is the coldest period of the year.

Sometimes forty -degree heat occurs. Most rainfall falls in June. Rains also go in August and October. For four hundred years, archaeologists have together together that people have lived on the site of the current Ufa since the time of the Paleolithic. For the first time, the settlement appeared on the map in the year. He was designated by the Venetian cartographers of the Pygani brothers.

Then the settlement was called Paskerti. In the Middle Ages, the Bashkir governor of the Nogai Horde was located here. This nomadic state appeared after the collapse of the Golden Horde. In the year, Bashkortostan became part of the Moscow kingdom. This year is considered to be the date of the base of Ufa. However, the status of the city was obtained only after 12 years. The center of the Ufa district then defended the wooden fortress wall with the length of the m.

The population of the city totaled about one and a half thousand people. The photograph of S. Prokudin-Gorsky, G. The critical situation developed in the year when a peasant uprising broke out in the vicinity of Ufa. It was organized by Cossack Ivan Zarubin, an associate of Emelyan Pugachev. The rebels twice tried to take the city, but to no avail. The uprising was crushed by the arrived government forces.

Gradually, Ufa from the military fortress turned into an administrative provincial center. Roads are a circulatory system of economics. Ufa is a vivid example. The city has a long history, but only the appearance of the railway turned it into a large industrial center. As soon as trains went through Ufa, steam mills appeared, sawmills, woodworking factories. By the end of the 19th century, there were thirty enterprises in the city.

At the end of the twenties of the last century, the number of products increased sharply by 16 times! This was due to the enforcement of giants such as the Ufa Motor -Building Plant and the Ufa Industrial Plant. Almost forty enterprises were evacuated to Ufa during the war. Some of them remained in the city. The next impetus to the development of the city was the opening of Bashkir oil.

Now in Ufa there is one of the most modern and largest oil refineries in the country. The basis of the Ufa industry is oil refining in the middle of the last century in the city center established a friendship monument dedicated to the lady of Bashkiria into Russia. It is worth considering it in detail. Cast iron bas -reliefs depict figures and scenes that reflect various historical milestones.

A staircase numbering 96 steps leads to the Belaya River from the monument. The story in architecture in order to make an idea of ​​the capital of Bashkiria, as it was years ago, you should take a walk along the historical part of the city. There are few old buildings. They are of the greater value. You can start with the house of officers. A huge building of unusual architecture is located on Karl Marx Street.

He was erected in the year. Initially, it was a profitable house owned by the merchant Parshin. Two floors were occupied by a luxurious hotel, where there was a concert hall and a restaurant. On the same street, your attention will certainly attract the house of the famous merchant Elena Ponosova-Molo. The mansion stands out sharply among the surrounding buildings.

It was built in the year and became in Ufa the first building in the style of Modern. The facade is richly decorated with stucco molding, rustic, unusual platbands. During the Civil War, there was Chapaev headquarters. Now the mansion is occupied by the Museum of Archeology and Ethnography.The first stone building of Ufa was the Trinity Church, another architectural monument is the house of the governor.

A monumental building in the style of classicism rises at the intersection of Tukaev and Sovetskaya streets. It appeared in the year and served not only a dwelling for the Ufa governor. The house also housed the office. After the revolution, power changed, and the governor’s house was renamed the Soviet house. Now it houses the Ministry of Health. Against the background of new buildings, the house of Kosterin and Chernikov stands out profitably.

The graceful mansion of sky blue flashes at the intersection of the streets of Karl Marx and Pushkin. The date of his birth is the year. The house was erected for the Samara bakery, Pavel Kosterin and his Ufa partner of the merchant Chernikov. On the facade there is a bas -relief with the image of Catherine Kosterina, the wife of the owner. In the Civil War in the house was the headquarters of Kolchak.

Then he was replaced by the political department of Chapaev. Now the building is occupied by the republican customs. So the Spasskaya Church looked at the beginning of the 20th century the building of the peasant land bank, built at the beginning of the last century, worthy of attention. The bank specialized in the issuance of loans to peasants for the acquisition of land. During construction, the most modern materials were used - ceramics, concrete, glass, metal.

In Soviet times, he was occupied by the Komsomol and party bodies. Now the building houses the exposition of the National Republican Museum. The historical buildings of Ufa also include the house of the merchant Nogarev, the noble assembly and the real school. Do not forget about modern architectural attractions. The Gostiny Dvor is worth visiting not only for purchases, but also to get acquainted with the architecture of the mid -19th century.

The market was built according to the project of the St. Petersburg professor of architect A. into the dashing of the building practically turned into ruins. The Ufa Gostiny Dvor became famous in the year when the DDT group, led by Yuri Shevchuk, shot a clip of the song “The Military City” on his ruins. The ancient complex was restored only at the beginning of this century.

In Ufa 15 Orthodox and nine Muslim temples. They are also the milestones of history.