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Ufa - the capital of the Republic of Bashkortostan, city of one million, located on the bank of the Belaya River, 100 km west of the mountain ranges of the Southern Urals. The length of it is the third city in Russia, after Sochi and Volgograd, is among the five largest cities of Russia area.

Despite the fact that Ufa is the capital of Bashkortostan, indigenous Bashkirs are relatively rare. The main part of the population is Russian (54%), although the last few years indicate an increase in the number of Tatars and Bashkirs due to intensive migration from rural areas.

Zaki Street Validi

Bashkir Academic Drama Theater. M. Gafuri

The theater is located on the place of the demolished in 1932. Resurrection Cathedral

Frosty Morning

The first Government House and Mosque

Monument to Salavat Yulaev

This is the largest equestrian statue in Russia, the height of almost ten meters. The monument is unique in the fact that with the weight of 40 tons, had only three anchor points, and center of gravity shifted significantly sculpture.

In addition, the monument is set on a hilltop and is subjected to considerable wind loads

Salavat Yulaev - Bashkir national hero and poet, one of the leaders of the Peasants' War of 1773-1775, associate Emelyan Pugachev.. It is known that Salavat his troops had been sent to reinforce government troops going to crush Pugacheva. But Salavat decided to join the king-chieftain and support the popular uprising. Time of the decision and was captured on the monument.

Parque Lenin

Zaki Street Validi. To the right can be seen the building of the Congress Hall

Bashkir State University

Education at the University of the Charter carried out in Russian. Some disciplines towards / specialty "Philology" taught in Bashkir, Tatar, English, German and French.

City center

"House of Industry"

The building of the Soviet area was built in 1956. Today, this building is "Bashneft" joint-stock oil company.

The beginning of the pedestrian street of Lenin

The Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Bashkortostan

Pushkin Street. The building of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Bashkortostan and the Bashkortostan Customs.

The Ministry of Health of the Republic of Bashkortostan

Department of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Bashkortostan

Panorama Ufa center. Lenin Street (4000 clickable px)

The intersection of Lenin and Koommunisticheskaya

Square them. Lenin

"Bashpotrebsoyuz"

Soviet square

The trade-union area. Monument Bashkir poet and writer Mustai Karim

Cinema "Rodina"

Road bridges over the river. White on the Orenburg crossing.

White River (or Agidel) - the left tributary of the Kama River. The longest river in Bashkortostan.

Staroufimskaya isolation. Salavat Yulayev Avenue.

Panorama clickable (4000 px)

Friendship Monument, dedicated to the 400th anniversary of Bashkiria's voluntary accession to the Russian state.

Earlier in the place of the present Monument of Friendship have wooden Ufa Kremlin, burned down during one of the major fires. Later, Trinity Church was built here, closed in 1930 and exploded in June 1956.

under construction mosque named after Salavat Yulayev

Mosque founded in honor of the 450th anniversary of Bashkiria's joining Russia. It is expected that at the time of its completion will be the largest mosque in Russia. For example, it can fit within the Kazan Kul Sharif.