Ufa (English) Уфа (Russian) Өфө (Bashkir) Уфа (Tatar)
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Ufa
Location of the Republic of Bashkortostan in Russia
Ufa Location of Ufa in the Republic of Bashkortostan
Coordinates: 54°45′N 55°58′E / 54.75°N 55.967°E / 54.75; 55.967Coordinates: 54°45′N 55°58′E / 54.75°N 55.967°E / 54.75; 55.967
Coat of arms	Flag
City Day	June 12[citation needed]
Administrative status (as of March 2011)
Country	Russia
Federal subject	Republic of Bashkortostan[1]
Administratively subordinated to	city of republic significance of Ufa[1]
Capital of	Republic of Bashkortostan[2]
Administrative center of	city of republic significance of Ufa,[1] Ufimsky District[3]
Municipal status (as of February 2012)
Urban okrug	Ufa Urban Okrug[4]
Administrative center of	Ufa Urban Okrug,[4] Ufimsky Municipal District[4]
Head[5]	Irek Yalalov[5]
Representative body	City Council[citation needed]
Statistics
Area	710 km2 (270 sq mi)[citation needed]
Population (2010 Census, preliminary)	1,062,300 inhabitants[6]
- Rank in 2010	11th
Population (2002 Census)	1,042,437 inhabitants[7]
- Rank in 2002	11th
Density	1,496 /km2 (3,870 /sq mi)[8]
Time zone	YEKT (UTC+06:00)[9]
Founded	1574[10]
City status since	1586[citation needed]
Postal code(s)	450xxx[citation needed]
Dialing code(s)	+7 347[citation needed]
Official website
Ufa on WikiCommons

Ufa (Russian: Уфа́; IPA: [ʊˈfa]; Bashkir: Өфө) is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia. It is the industrial, economic, scientific and cultural center of the republic. Population: 1,062,300 (2010 Census preliminary results);^[6] 1,042,437 (2002 Census);^[7] 1,082,052 (1989 Census).^[11]

The newspaper English Russia and the President of Bashkortostan coined Ufa as the Muslim centre of Russia.^[12][13]

History[link]

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

The city began as a fortress built on the orders of Ivan the Terrible in 1574, and originally bore the name of the hill it stood on, Tura-Tau. It was granted town status in 1586.

In the 18th century Ufa evolved into an administrative, trading, manufacturing and cultural center of Russia. Ufa Municipal Public Bank was established on December 15, 1876.

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

On June 14, 1922, the Decree of the All-Union Central Executive Committee abolished Ufa Governorate, and Ufa became the capital of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

The discovery of oil in Bashkiria made Ufa one of the centers of the Soviet oil extracting and oil refining industries.

During World War II, following eastward Soviet retreat in 1941, Ufa became the wartime seat of the Soviet Ukrainian government.

Administrative and municipal status[link]

Apart from being the capital of the republic, Ufa serves as the administrative center of Ufimsky District,^[3] although it is not administratively a part of it.^[1] Administratively, along with twenty-four rural localities, it is incorporated as a city of republic significance—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.^[1] Municipally, the city of republic significance of Ufa is incorporated as Ufa Urban Okrug.^[4]

Economy[link]

Industry[link]

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.^[14]

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^[15]
• Bashneft (Russian: ОАО «АНК «Башнефть»»): oil and gas company^[16]
• UFNC (Ufaneftekhim) (Russian: ОАО «Уфанефтехим»): oil and petrochemical company^[17]

Finance[link]

Ufa is a donor of the republic's and federal budgets. About 62.8 % of tax revenues accumulated on the territory of Ufa City municipal district of Bashkortostan Republic are directed to the federal budget and 29 % to the republic's budget.

Transport[link]

Ufa is linked by railways to the rest of Russia, having a railway station on a historic branch of the Transsib. Ufa is the only city connected to Moscow by more than one Federal highway. 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 UAE, Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, as well as domestic flights to many Russian cities and towns.

Demographics[link]

Ethnically, the republic is dominated by Russians (50.2%), Bashkirs (14.8%), and Tatars (28.1%). Other ethnicities over 1000 people include Ukrainians (17,772 people), Chuvash (10,586 people), Mari (9,616 people), Belarusians (5,556 people), Mordovians (3,975 people), Armenians (2,822 people), Germans (2,213 people), Jews (2,082 people), and Azeris (2,075 people).^[18]

Geography and climate[link]

View of Ufa over the Belaya River

Ufa is situated in eastern Europe near its land boundary with Asia, at the confluence of the Belaya and Ufa Rivers, on low hills to the west of the southern Urals. The city stretches 50 kilometers (31 mi) from southwest to northeast and occupies the area of over 710 square kilometers (270 sq mi).^{[citation needed]}

Government and administration[link]

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 urban okrug. Term of 4 years.
• Urban Okrug Administration. The structure of the administration approved by the Council on the proposal of the Head of the Administration.
• Head of the Administration manages the administration on the principles of unity of command. He is appointed under a contract entered into by the results of the competition. Term of office of the Head of the Administration limited to the period of office of the Council of the convocation.^[20]

Republican and federal

• Electoral Commission of the Urban Okrug
• Government of the Republic of Bashkortostan
• Ministries of the Republic

Sports[link]

The Ufa Arena

Ufa's association football club FC Ufa plays in the Russian Second Division. Ufa is the biggest city in Europe never to have been represented in top-flight football.^[21] The city ice hockey club Salavat Yulaev Ufa plays in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL), being the KHL Champion (2010/2011) and two-time Russia Champion (2007/2008, 2010/2011). The Ural Volleyball club are also based in Ufa.

Education and science[link]

Educational institutions include:

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

Religion[link]

The main religious confessions in the city are Islam (Sunni) and Orthodox Christianity^{[citation needed]} (the city - the center of the Russian Orthodox Diocese of Ufa and Sterlitamak). Ufa is the seat of the central authorities and Mufti Central Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of Russia and European CIS countries.

The majority of the population are adherents of Orthodox Christianity with an estimated 50% being Orthodox and the remaining 45% made up of a mainly Islam with small numbers of Jews and other religions.^{[citation needed]}

Culture[link]

Bashkir State Academic Theater of Drama

The city has Bashkir, Russian, and Tatar State Drama Theaters, a State Opera and Ballet Theater, a National Symphony Orchestra, "Bashkortostan" film studio, philharmonic collectives, and the Bashkir State Folk Dance Ensemble.

Notable people[link]

Famous citizens of Ufa include:

• Sergey Aksakov, writer
• Vladimir Spivakov, musician
• Salawat Yulayev, national hero
• Mirsaid Sultangaliev, Muslim Bolshevik
• Mikhail Nesterov, artist
• Rudolf Nureyev, dancer
• Vera Timanova, pianist
• Andrei Zubarev, Andrei Zyuzin, Alexander Semak, and Igor Kravchuk, hockey players
• Zemfira, musician
• Valerian Albanov, navigator
• Yuri Shevchuk, musician
• Ernst Muldashev, ophthalmologist
• Boris Kolker, member of the Academy of Esperanto
• Anatoli Efimoff, artist
• Ildar Abdrazakov, bass opera singer
• Eldar Musin, prominent scientist in field of information security, entrepreneur

International relations[link]

Twin towns and sister cities[link]

Ufa is twinned with:

See also[link]

• Ufa Metro
• Ufa train disaster

References[link]

Notes[link]

Sources[link]

• Правительство Республики Башкортостан. Постановление №391 от 29 декабря 2006 г. «Об утверждении реестра административно-территориальных единиц и населённых пунктов Республики Башкортостан», в ред. Постановления №70 от 18 марта 2011 г «О внесении изменений в реестр административно-территориальных единиц и населённых пунктов Республики Башкортостан». Опубликован: "Ведомости Государственного Собрания – Курултая, Президента и Правительства Республики Башкортостан", №5 (251), ст. 239, 12 марта 2007 г. (Government of the Republic of Bashkortostan. Resolution #391 of December 29, 2006 On Adoption of the Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Entities and Inhabited Localities of the Republic of Bashkortostan, as amended by the Resolution #70 of March 18, 2011 On Amending the Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Entities and Inhabited Localities of the Republic of Bashkortostan. ).
• Государственное Собрание —Курултай Республики Башкортостан. Закон №162-з от 17 декабря 2004 г. «О границах, статусе и административных центрах муниципальных образований в Республике Башкортостан», в ред. Закона №357-з от 31 января 2011 г «О переносе административных центров Новопетровского и Тляумбетовского сельсоветов Кугарчинского района Республики Башкортостан». Вступил в силу в соответствии со статьёй 33. Опубликован: "Республика Башкортостан", №52 (25785), 22 марта 2005 г. (State Assembly of Bashkortostan—El Kurultai. Law #162-z of December 17, 2004 On the Borders, Status, and Administrative Centers of the Municipal Formations in the Republic of Bashkortostan, as amended by the Law #357-z of January 31, 2011 On Changing the Administrative Centers of Novopetrovsky and Tlyaumbetovsky Selsoviets of Kugarchinsky District. Effective as of the date established in accordance with the provisions of Article 33.).

External links[link]

• Official website of Ufa
• Official website of Ufa (Russian)
• Ufa virtual tour
• Photos of Ufa

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Filmography[link]

External links[link]

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