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Ufa (; , Öfö; ; , Ephü) is the capital of the Republic of Bashkortostan
Bashkortostan

The Republic of Bashkortostan or Bashkiria is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . It is located between the Volga River and the Ural Mountains....
, Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
. Population: 1,021,500 (2008 est.); 1,042,437 (2002 Census
Russian Census (2002)

Russian Census of 2002 was the first census of the Russian Federation carried out on October 9 through October 16, 2002. It was carried out by the Goskomstat ....
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is one of the industrial centres in the Western Urals area, and is situated at the confluence
Confluence (geography)

Confluence, in geography, describes the meeting of two or more bodies of water. It usually refers to the point where a tributary joins a more major river, called the mainstem , when that major river is also the highest Strahler Stream Order in the drainage basin....
 of the Belaya
Belaya (Aghidhel) River

Belaya River or Aghidhel is a river in the Bashkortostan and Tatarstan, Russia. Its source lies in the south-western Ural Mountains. Its length is 1,430 km ....
 and the Ufa River
Ufa River

Ufa River is a river in the Urals, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Sverdlovsk Oblast, and the Bashkortostan; a tributary of the Belaya River . It is 918 km in length....
s. Industries include electrical and mining equipment, oil refining, petrochemicals, synthetic rubber, and processed foods. The Ufa Airport
Ufa Airport

Ufa International Airport is the primary airport serving Ufa, the capital of Bashkortostan, Russia.It is the largest airport in the Federal subjects of Russia of the Bashkortostan....
 connects the city to several towns in Russia, as well as to Armenia
Armenia

Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in South Caucasus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea....
, Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan , is the largest and most populous country in the South Caucasus, located partially in Eastern Europe and partially in Western Asia....
, Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
, Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
 and Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan , is a Landlocked_country#Doubly_landlocked_country country in Central Asia, formerly part of the Soviet Union....
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Ufa (; , Öfö; ; , Ephü) is the capital of the Republic of Bashkortostan
Bashkortostan

The Republic of Bashkortostan or Bashkiria is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . It is located between the Volga River and the Ural Mountains....
, Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
. Population: 1,021,500 (2008 est.); 1,042,437 (2002 Census
Russian Census (2002)

Russian Census of 2002 was the first census of the Russian Federation carried out on October 9 through October 16, 2002. It was carried out by the Goskomstat ....
).

Geography

Ufa is one of the industrial centres in the Western Urals area, and is situated at the confluence
Confluence (geography)

Confluence, in geography, describes the meeting of two or more bodies of water. It usually refers to the point where a tributary joins a more major river, called the mainstem , when that major river is also the highest Strahler Stream Order in the drainage basin....
 of the Belaya
Belaya (Aghidhel) River

Belaya River or Aghidhel is a river in the Bashkortostan and Tatarstan, Russia. Its source lies in the south-western Ural Mountains. Its length is 1,430 km ....
 and the Ufa River
Ufa River

Ufa River is a river in the Urals, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Sverdlovsk Oblast, and the Bashkortostan; a tributary of the Belaya River . It is 918 km in length....
s. Industries include electrical and mining equipment, oil refining, petrochemicals, synthetic rubber, and processed foods. The Ufa Airport
Ufa Airport

Ufa International Airport is the primary airport serving Ufa, the capital of Bashkortostan, Russia.It is the largest airport in the Federal subjects of Russia of the Bashkortostan....
 connects the city to several towns in Russia, as well as to Armenia
Armenia

Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in South Caucasus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea....
, Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan , is the largest and most populous country in the South Caucasus, located partially in Eastern Europe and partially in Western Asia....
, Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
, Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
 and Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan , is a Landlocked_country#Doubly_landlocked_country country in Central Asia, formerly part of the Soviet Union....
. There is also the smaller Ufa Maximovka Airport
Ufa Maximovka Airport

Ufa Maximovka Airport is an airport in Bashkortostan, Russia located 10 kilometers northeast of Ufa. Services small transport aircraft. It is secondary to the larger Ufa Airport southwest of the city....
 northeast of the city.

History

The city began as a fortress built on the orders of Ivan IV
Ivan IV of Russia

Ivan IV Vasilyevich , known in English language as Ivan the Terrible was Grand Duchy of Moscow from 1533. The epithet "Grozny" is associated with might, power and strictness, rather than poor performance, horror or cruelty....
 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
Turkic languages

The Turkic languages constitute a language family of some thirty languages, spoken by Turkic peoples across a vast area from Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean Sea to Siberia and Western China, and are sometimes considered to be part of the proposed Altaic languages....
, by locals and the name stuck. In 1802, Ufa became the principal city of Bashkiria.

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

The Provisional All-Russian Government or PA-RG was a short-lived government centred in Omsk during the Russian Civil War.It was principally formed from the Komuch, mainly Socialist-Revolutionary Party's and Kadets based in Samara, and the Provisional Government of Autonomous Siberia, which consisted mainly of regional politicians and...
.

Educational institutions include Bashkir State University
Bashkir State University

Bashkir State University is located in Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia,founded in 1904, is among the top ten classical universities of Russia. It is especially strong in Organic Chemistry, Applied Mathematics, Philology, Information Technologies, Geophysics, and Petroleum Engineering....
, Bashkir State Teachers Training University named after M.Akmulla, Ufa State Aviation Technical University
Ufa State Aviation Technical University

Ufa State Aviation Technical University is a state higher school, located in Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia. Ufa State Aviation Technical University was founded in 1932 in Rybinsk, USSR....
, Ufa State Petroleum Technological University, Ufa Architectural University, Ufa Agricultural University, and others.

Famous natives of Ufa include Vladimir Spivakov
Vladimir Spivakov

Vladimir Teodorovich Spivakov is a leading Russian conductor and violinist best known for his work with the Moscow Virtuosi chamber orchestra....
, rebel Salawat Yulayev
Salawat Yulayev

Salawat Yulayev is a Bashkirs national hero who participated at Pugachev's rebellion.Salawat Yulayev was born in the village of Tekeyevo of Shaytan-Kudeevsky volost of Ufa province of Orenburg Governorate....
, the Muslim
Muslim

:A Muslim , , is an adherent of the religion of Islam. The feminine form is Muslimah . Literally, the word means "one who submits "....
 Bolshevik
Bolshevik

Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists were a faction of the Marxism Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the 2nd Congress of the RSDLP in 1903 and ultimately became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union....
 Mirsaid Sultangaliev, the painter Mikhail Nesterov
Mikhail Nesterov

Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov was a leading representative of religious Russian Symbolism in Russian art. He studied under Pavel Tchistyakov at the Imperial Academy of Arts, but later allied himself with the group of artists known as the Peredvizhniki....
, dancer Rudolf Nureyev
Rudolf Nureyev

File:Rudolph Nureyev.jpgRudolf Khametovich Nureyev was a Tatar dancer from the Soviet Union, primarily known for his work in ballet....
, pianist Vera Timanova
Vera Timanova

Vera Viktorovna Timanova was a Russian pianist.Vera Timanova was born into a well-to-do family in Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia, where she spent her childhood....
, NHL
National Hockey League

The National Hockey League is a professional ice hockey league composed of 30 teams in North America. It is considered to be the premier professional ice hockey league in the world, and one of the North American Major professional sports leagues of the United States and Canada....
 ice hockey
Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to simply as hockey, is a team sport played on ice. It is a fast paced and physical sport. Ice hockey is most popular in areas that are sufficiently cold for natural reliable seasonal ice cover such as Canada, the northern United States, Scandinavia and Russia, though with the advent of indoor artificial ice r...
 players Andrei Zyuzin
Andrei Zyuzin

Andrei Zyuzin is a Russian ice hockey defenceman who plays for SKA St. Petersburg in the Kontinental Hockey League. He formerly played for six different teams in the National Hockey League ....
 Alexander Semak
Alexander Semak

Alexander Semak is a retired professional ice hockey centre who played in the National Hockey League for six seasons from 1991?92 NHL season until 1996?97 NHL season....
 and Igor Kravchuk
Igor Kravchuk

Igor Aleksandrovich Kravchuk is a retired Russians ice hockey Defenceman , who competed internationally for the USSR and Russia....
, rock singer Zemfira
Zemfira

Zemfira Talgatovna Ramazanova is the leader and lead vocalist of the Russian rock band "Zemfira" . The group was formed in 1998 and has been immensely popular in Russia and other Post-Soviet states....
. Navigator Valerian Albanov
Valerian Albanov

Valerian Ivanovich Albanov was a Russian navigator, best known for being one of only two survivors of the ill-fated Georgy Brusilov of 1912....
 of ill-fated Arctic ship St. Anna
Svyataya Anna

The Svyataya Anna or St. Anna, named after Saint Anne, was a Russian ship built in England. It was the ship commanded by Georgy Brusilov during his ill-fated 1912 Arctic expedition to explore the Northern Sea Route....
, as well as rock singer Yuri Shevchuk
Yuri Shevchuk

Yuri Yulianovich Shevchuk , born 16 May 1957, is a Russian singer/songwriter who leads the Rock music band DDT , which he founded with Vladimir Sigachev in 1980....
 and his band DDT
DDT (band)

DDT is a popular Russian rock band founded by its current lead singer, Yuri Shevchuk , in Ufa in 1981....
 were Ufa residents for some time.

Economy

There are some important enterprises in Ufa:
  • UMPO (Ufa Engine Industrial Association) : founded in 1925 whose main products are jet engines
    Jet engine

    A jet engine is a reaction engine that discharges a fast moving jet of fluid to generate thrust in accordance with Isaac Newton Newton's laws of motion....
  • Bashneft' ANK OAO : oil and gas company
  • UFNC (Ufaneftekhim) : oil and petrochemical company


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    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
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    Orenburg

    Orenburg is a types of inhabited localities in Russia on the Ural River and the administrative center of Orenburg Oblast in the Volga Federal District of Russia....
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See also

  • Ufa Metro
    Ufa Metro

    The Ufa Metro is a planned and oft-delayed subway system for Ufa, Russia, Russia. It has been planned since the late 1980s. On May 30, 1996, there was a ceremony marking the beginning of preparatory construction work....
  • Ufa train disaster
    Ufa train disaster

    The Ufa train disaster happened on June 4 1989 at 1:15 near the cities of Ufa and Asha in the Soviet Union on the Trans-Siberian Railway. A liquefied natural gas explosion killed 645 and wounded more than 700, making it the most deadly railway accident in Soviet history, as two trains passing each other threw sparks near a leaky pipeline....
  • Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937
    Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937

    Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, registration RA-85816, was a Tupolev Tu-154 passenger jet en route from Moscow, Russia, to Barcelona, Spain. SNAS/DHL Flight 611, registration A9C-DHL, was a Boeing_757#757-200PF_and_757-200SF_freighters Cargo airline jet flying from Bergamo, Italy, to Brussels, Belgium....


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