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Beloretsk (Bashk. Beloret) is a city (since 1923) in Russia, the administrative center of the Beloretsk district of the Republic of Bashkortostan. It forms the municipality of the city of Beloretsk with the status of urban settlement as the only settlement in its composition. The city is located on the Belaya River (a tributary of the Kama), 245 km from Ufa. Metallurgical plant is a city-forming enterprise.
Ski center "Mratkino"
One of the oldest ski resorts in the
Southern Urals, attracting not only professional athletes, but also
beginner skiers and snowboarders, as well as lovers of family outdoor
recreation with its perfectly prepared slopes. The complex’s technical
characteristics are suitable for training athletes of the highest class
and holding competitions not only on an all-Russian, but also on an
international scale.
The complex has 4 lifts: 2 four-seater
chairlifts and 2 rope tows. The ski complex has two slopes: southern and
northern. There are 8 trails of different difficulty levels on two
slopes: 5 on the south, and 3 on the north.
Biathlon and ski
training complex "Kurtash"
A training track owned by the Beloretsk
Ski Racing Federation, created in order to maintain young people’s
interest in a healthy lifestyle. A new sport, ski-aceri
(aceri-biathlon), is being developed. The route is conveniently located
at 12 km of the Magnitogorsk Highway, at an altitude of 894 m above sea
level. Early snow, prepared trails, beautiful nature, and a unique
microclimate give both athletes and ski lovers the opportunity to get
the most positive experience. For lovers of walking, a separate ski
route is being prepared through beautiful places to Mount Kurtash-Tau,
located at an altitude of 1050 m, from where, with good visibility, you
can see the highest mountain of the Southern Urals, Yamantau, and the
nearest mountains.
The complex has repeatedly hosted
competitions, both local, republican, and federal. Many national teams
from all over Russia conducted training events here not only in winter,
but also in summer.
Monument to teachers and students of school No. 1 who fell during the
Great Patriotic War;
Monument to teachers and students of school
number 15, who fell during the Great Patriotic War;
Monument to the
Beloretsk metallurgists who fell in battles for the Motherland during
the Great Patriotic War;
Alley of Glory (memorial with eternal flame,
busts of Belorechans - Heroes of the Soviet Union);
Obelisk to the
Belorechans of the 298 Infantry Regiment;
Monument to Belorechan
pilots who fell during the Great Patriotic War;
Monument to the Hero
of the Soviet Union A. G. Serebrennikov;
Monument to 40 fallen
fighters for Soviet power during the Civil War;
Monument to 24 fallen
fighters for Soviet power during the Civil War;
Obelisk to the
fighters for Soviet power during the Civil War;
Memorial to those who
died during the Civil War and a monument to V. K. Blucher;
Monument
to 12 fallen fighters for Soviet power during the Civil War;
Monument
to Belorechans who died in the line of military and official duty on the
territory of the North Caucasus region;
Memorial to
soldiers-internationalists who died in local conflicts in the line of
duty;
Monument to Belorechans-liquidators of the accident at the
Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
Ski resort Mratkino. ☎ (34792) 4-45-40. Open: Mon-Sun 10 am - 6 pm 4 large tracks and one difficult descent. It is one of the most attactive ski resorts in Bashkortostan. It attracts mainly by its nature's beauty and low rental costs, as well as taxi fees, apre-ski and restaurant capacities.
As the Encyclopedic Dictionary of
Brockhaus and Efron points out, the plant and mining settlement was
founded in 1762 in the Verkhneuralsky district of the Orenburg province,
60 versts (about 65 km) west of Verkhneuralsk, on the Belaya River, near
the mouth of the Nura River, at an absolute height of 1628 feet (496 m),
at 53°58'N, 53°49'E.
Founded by merchants Tverdyshevs and I. S.
Myasnikov on the purchased Bashkir land of the Belokatai volost, later,
together with the Tirlyansky plant, it became the property of the
Society of Beloretsk Plants. The land dacha of the plant is 170,041
acres, of which 152,020 acres are under forest, consisting of pine, fir,
spruce, and rarely aspen and birch. The terrain is generally
mountainous; the valleys have loamy soil and are quite fertile. The
mines lie 90 versts from the plant and beyond the Ural River, in the
Kirghiz steppe, in Mount Atache (now Mount Magnitnaya). Blast furnace,
foundry, iron and wire production. It has 20 water wheels, 6 turbines, 6
steam engines and a locomobile (total number of forces 1232). In 1888,
it produced 728,453 poods of cast iron, 419,906 poods of iron, and
11,081 poods of iron products.
The source of iron ore, as
indicated in the encyclopedic dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron, was
Mount Atach (Magnitnaya), which is located on the territory of the
present city of Magnitogorsk.
Also, the source of iron ore for
the Beloretsk Metallurgical Plant was the Komarovo-Zigazinskoye deposit
in the village of Tukan, where in 1926 a branch of the Beloretsk
narrow-gauge railway was laid.
179,000 acres of land for the
Beloretsk plant were bought from the Bashkirs for 300 rubles.
In
the “Materials on the history of the Bashkir ASSR” (V. 4. Part 2. S.
183-187), in a document for 1759, we are talking about permission for I.
B. Tverdyshev and I. S. Myasnikov to build an ironworks at the Kurak
River ( Kuryakly), a tributary of the Sim River. In the statement for
1761 it is noted: “Tirlyansky iron plant. It is being built again by
decree of the state berg-collegium of 1759 in the Katai volost on the
Tirlyan River on land purchased from the Bashkirs. And this plant is not
yet in operation, because it has not yet been built. In a document dated
July 18, 1762, the same breeders are already asking for the transfer of
the plant under construction from the Tirlyan River (and not from the
Kuraki River) to the White River. The Berg Collegium allowed it to be
moved and determined “to call that plant instead of Tirlyansky
Beloretsky”. The statement for 1776 contains data that the Beloretsk
blast furnace hammer plant was built in 1762, it has 2 blast furnaces,
14 hammers. However, the first smelting of cast iron was recorded in
1767. From which it follows that the plant was built in 1762-1767.
In 1777, 110,131 poods of cast iron were smelted, in 1799 - 154,212
poods.
Purchased Russian peasants from the Nizhny Novgorod,
Penza, Ryazan provinces and Bashkirs, indigenous people from the
surrounding villages, were settled at the plant. The factory village of
Lomovka appeared 2-3 versts from the plant, which got its name from the
occupation of the inhabitants: they were exclusively cart drivers, they
supplied raw materials to the plant. The factory peasants also settled
in the Arskaya village, located 12 versts from their place of work. In
1773, there were 1724 people at the plant, including 840 men, according
to the fifth revision of 1795 - 651 men and 737 women, in the village of
Lomovka - 2152 people, including 1032 men. In 1859, the Beloretsk plant
had 5583 inhabitants, of which 2681 were men. They lived in 1018 houses.
At the Beloretsk plant there was an infirmary, a school, a market, and a
railway. In the village of Lomovka, 1868 peasants lived in 305
households. There is no information about the village of Arskaya for the
18th-19th centuries. In 1926, the Arsky Stone farm consisted of 4, the
Arsky cordon - 9 farm yards. The inhabitants are Russian. The village of
Lomovka consisted of 879 households and 4350 inhabitants. This village
still exists today.
In March 1774, after the unsuccessful siege of
Orenburg and the defeat near the Tatishchev fortress, Pugachev, with a
handful of Bashkirs and Cossacks from his personal hundred, retreated to
the village of Tashla, then beyond the bend of the Belaya River,
arriving first at the Resurrection Plant, and then on April 13, reaching
the Beloretsk Plant, where he stayed before May 1, 1774. The reason why
he got a respite for a whole month was the death of Commander Bibikov,
which caused intrigues among the generals. General Golitsyn was
dissatisfied with the appointment of General Shcherbatov to this post.
As a result, the detachments of the rebels, defeated and scattered
across the steppe, were not pursued and gradually gathered in the
Southern Urals.
On April 13, 1774, a large crowd of factory
residents, headed by the Beloretsk worker Vasily Akaev, welcomed the
peasant tsar with bread and salt.
Three weeks at the Beloretsk
plant was the center of the peasant uprising. Detachments of working
people and peasants were formed at the plant, a new administration was
created. The production of weapons and ammunition was established.
Kinzya Arslanov gathers Bashkir cavalry at the factory to support
Pugachev.
On May 2, 1774, Pugachev's army left the factory for
Kazan.
The narrow gauge
railway was built in 1910-1914 for the needs of the Beloretsk plant.
The German companies "Vogau" and "Arthur-Kopel" were the main
contractors for the construction.
Construction began in 1910, and
in November 1912 the first train left Zaprudovka for Tirlyan.
In
1913, the construction of the Zaprudovka-Tirlyan-Beloretsk railway was
completed. For several decades, the road was the main transport artery
for Beloretsk and its enterprises.
The railway connected the
Zaprudovka station (near Katav-Ivanovsk) with Beloretsk, as well as with
the remote villages of Inzer and Tukan. For a long time, the BZD was one
of the three longest such roads of the former USSR.
In 1915,
survey work was carried out on the construction of the
Beloretsk-Magnitnaya narrow-gauge railway, but the plans failed to come
true, as the First World War began.
In 2007 the road was
dismantled.
The water tower, a landmark of the
city of Beloretsk, a monument of history and culture, was built in 1916
according to the project of the German company Vogau and Co. at the
expense of the Beloretsk ironworks. It supplied water to the houses of
the Upper village. It was the tallest building in the city: 513.6 m
above sea level, 18 m above ground level. Built of red brick, crowned
with a multifaceted log superstructure with windows (belvedere). An
observation deck was built at the top of the tower.
The
observation deck at the top of the tower served as a fire watch. If
there was a fire somewhere, bull bubbles (lanterns at night) were hung
out from one to four. The city was conditionally divided into 4 parts,
which corresponded to their number. This served as a signal to the
firefighters. After the appearance of the watchtower, Tochissky Street
was popularly called Pozharnaya Street.
The last water supply
from the tower was carried out in 1956. The upper gazebo lasted until
the 1970s. In the second half of the 20th century, a clock was installed
on the tower, which was removed in the 1990s.
By 1917, the plant
operated two blast furnaces and three open-hearth furnaces, a bell mill
and a wire mill.
The factory workers actively participated in the
revolutionary movement in the Southern Urals. In July 1918, the 270th
Beloretsk Socialist Regiment was formed from the workers of the plant,
which made a raid as part of the Ural Partisan Army under the command of
V.K. Blucher.
Beloretsk received the status of the city on
December 22, 1923 according to the decree of the Presidium of the
Bashkir Central Executive Committee of Councils of Workers, Peasants and
Red Army Deputies (BashTsIK) “On the renaming of the Center of the
Tamyano-Katai Canton Beloretsk Plant to the city of Beloretsk”. During
the period of collectivization, the Beloretsk Dairy Plant was created in
Beloretsk in order to centralize the state supply of milk from the
established Bashkir collective farms. By the Decree of the All-Russian
Central Executive Committee “On Changes in the
Administrative-Territorial Division of the Bashkir ASSR” dated February
20, 1932, Beloretsk was separated into an independent administrative
unit with direct subordination to the BashTsIK.
In 1952-1953 it
was part of the Sterlitamak region of the Bashkir ASSR. In 1954, it was
planned to include it in the never formed Magnitogorsk region.
During the years of Soviet power, the plant was reconstructed and
expanded, new types of products were mastered, mechanization and
automation of production processes were carried out. In 1957, on the
basis of the metallurgical plant, a plant was founded with the addition
of the Tirlyansky sheet-rolling plant, the Tukansky mine and the steel
wire and rope plant. The enterprises of the present plant were
especially developed during the Great Patriotic War. The plant was
awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1966).
In the
1970s, Beloretsk and its environs became the filming location for
several films at once: the adventure films The Lost Expedition and
Golden River, the 30-episode TV movie Eternal Call. Belorechans filmed
in episodes and mass scenes.
In the summer of 2003, episodes of
the film directed by Bulat Yusupov "The Navel" based on the story "Long,
Long Childhood" by Mustai Karim were filmed in Beloretsk.
In 2002, for economic reasons of the new owner, the Mechel corporation, the blast furnaces and open-hearth furnaces of the Beloretsk Metallurgical Plant were decommissioned, and steel wire and rope production is now the basis of the plant's production.
How to get to Beloretsk
The easiest way to get to Beloretsk is through Ufa or Magnitogorsk. Both cities have air and rail connections with the rest of the country. It will take you an hour's car ride from Magnitogorsk or 3 hours from Ufa (the road from Ufa is more picturesque) to get to Beloretsk on mountain serpentine.
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Recreation center
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The city is located on the Belaya River (a tributary of the Kama), 245 km southeast of Ufa and 90 km north of Magnitogorsk.
Beloretsk, like the entire Republic of Bashkortostan, is located in the MSK + 2 time zone. The offset of the applicable time from UTC is +5:00.
Zone of sharply continental climate of the temperate
climate zone
Average annual air temperature: 2.5 °C.
Relative
humidity: 68.5%.
Average wind speed: 3.8 m/s.
The city is located on the Belaya River (a tributary of the Kama),
245 km southeast of the capital of the republic, the city of Ufa, and 90
km north of the city of Magnitogorsk.
Timezone
Beloretsk, like
the entire Republic of Bashkortostan, is located in the MSC+2 time zone.
The applied time offset relative to UTC is +5:00.
Zone of sharply continental climate, temperate climate zone
Average annual air temperature: +2.5 °C.
Relative humidity: 68.5%.
Average wind speed: 3.8 m/s.
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