Gay is a city in Russia, the administrative center of the Gay urban district of the Orenburg region. By order of the Government of the Russian Federation of July 29, 2014 No. 1398-r "On approval of the list of single-industry towns", the city was included in the category "Single-industry municipalities of the Russian Federation (single-industry towns), in which there are risks of deterioration of the socio-economic situation."
Located in the Southern Urals, 26 km south of the Iriklinskoye reservoir, 246 km east of Orenburg (in a straight line).
It was founded on May 9, 1959 as a
settlement for the builders of a mining and processing plant at the
deposit of copper-pyrite ores. Urban-type settlement since 1965. Gay
is recognized as a city since 1979.
The history of the city
of Gay and the Gaysky ore mining and processing plant began in 1932
with exploration work, which was initiated by the oldest geologist
in the Orenburg region, Iosif Leontievich Rudnitsky. The war
interrupted these works, they resumed only after its end, and in
1950, copper ore was discovered in one of the wells.
In March
1959, by the Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR and
the Orenburg Economic Council, the directorate of the plant under
construction was approved, and the Yuzhuraltyazhstroy trust was
appointed as the general contractor. The Central Committee of the
Komsomol announced the construction of the combine and the miners'
settlement as an All-Union shock construction site.
On May 9,
1959, a rally was held in Gay, dedicated to raising the flag of a
new construction site, this day became the city's birthday. In the
first year of construction, 5 thousand tons of gai ore have already
been issued and many important objects have been built, including
social ones - a school, a bathhouse, and residential buildings.
In 1979, Gai received the status of a city of regional
subordination, in the Register of cities of the Russian Federation
it was registered under No. 1000. In 1999 the city's coat of arms
was approved.
The name of the city comes from the popular
name of a birch grove, framing a healing spring 6 km from the city
(gai in Belarusian means forest, grove), where since 1934 there has
been a sanatorium (resort) "Gay", using mineral water and natural
mud of a small lake.
Gay is located in an area of continental climate with cold winters and hot summers. The average temperature in January is -18 ° C, in July + 22 ° C. Precipitation is over 300 mm per year.
The total area of the city is 62.14 km². The area of green spaces is
191 hectares (about 50 m² per person). The length of city public roads
is 76.6 km, of which 57.6 km are paved.
The municipality includes
the village of Kalinovka (a former settlement of geologists).
There are 1538 residential buildings in Gai, 1207 of which are private
property of citizens. The area of the apartments is 860,446 m², the
number of residents in them is 37,213 people. Housing stock equipment:
centralized heating - 99.9%;
gas - 99.9%;
plumbing - 95%;
sewerage - 94.8%;
hot water supply - 93.9%
There are 8 general
education schools, an evening shift school and a special correctional
school in Gai, where 4346 people study. Also in the city there are
vocational and medical schools, an evening industrial college, a branch
of the Bashkir Economics and Law College.
Two children's sports
schools, an art school and a children's art school have been opened. In
them, as well as in circles, sections and studios, 3927 children are
engaged in various areas (over 90 percent of all schoolchildren).
The provision of places in preschool institutions is 738 places per
1,000 children aged 1 to 6 years. There are 9 school and 4 city
libraries in the city, the library fund is in school libraries - 200,892
copies of books, in city libraries - 286,000 copies.
The city
exhibition hall, the city museum of local lore, the Miners' Palace of
Culture, a sports complex, the Raduga Children's Creativity Center, and
the Ostrovok Center for Social Rehabilitation of Minors are operating.
7829 citizens receive social support measures through the Department
of Social Protection of the Population, 910 receive subsidies for
housing and communal services. During 2008, 13,247 citizens received
various services at the Comprehensive Center for Social Services,
including about 600 people covered by home services.
The following companies operate in the city:
Gaisky Mining and
Processing Plant
Gay non-ferrous metal processing plant
Gay
poultry farm
Gay mine-rescue equipment plant
The volume of
shipped goods, performed works and services of own production in 2007
amounted to 14.8 billion rubles. The main branch of the city's economy
is metallurgy, the volume of production of PJSC "Gaisky GOK" is 54.9% of
the total production of enterprises in the city.
Small business
is developing in the city - 95 small enterprises and 845 entrepreneurs
without forming a legal entity are registered. The trading network is
represented by 115 shops, 73 kiosks and pavilions, a market with 190
trading places. There are 45 public catering enterprises.
6 km
from the city, in a birch grove called Guy - the eponymous balneological
mud resort.
radio stations
103.3 MHz - Radio Dacha
103.7 MHz - Radio HIT
104.1 MHz - Radio DFM
94.0 MHz - Radio Vera (PLAN)
94.4 MHz - Road
radio
99.9 MHz - Radio Russian Hit
105.5 MHz - Radio Vanya