Miass

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city Miass Миасс flag coat of arms Federal district Ural Oblast Chelyabinsk Urban district Miass mayor Viktor Ardabevsky Founded 1773 City since 1926 surface 112  km² population 151,751 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1355 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 340  m Time zone UTC + 5 Telephone code (+7) 3513 Post Code 4563xx License Plate 74, 174 OKATO 75 442 Website www.gorod.miass.ru Geographical location Coordinates 55 ° 0 ′  N , 60 ° 6 ′  E Coordinates: 55 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 60 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Chelyabinsk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Miass ( Russian Миа́сс ) is a large city in Russia . It is located in the Chelyabinsk Oblast in the central Urals on the banks of the Miass River of the same name and has 151,751 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

history

The town's roots go back to 1773, when a miners' settlement was founded in its current location. The place grew slowly in the 19th century to a gold digger village and market town. In 1881 the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral was completed. Only the gold discoveries and metal processing on a large scale brought a steep upswing for the place in the 20th century, which only received city rights in 1926.

Population development

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year	Residents	comment
1939	28,516	and workers' settlements Stanzija Miass (5,030), Melentjewski (4,139), incorporated in 1959
1959	99.043
1970	131,331
1979	150.179
1989	167,839
2002	158.420
2010	151.751

Note: census data

Economy and Transport

In Miass there are larger factories in the metalworking industry and in vehicle construction. Miass is the center of a Middle Ural region with gold deposits that are mined in the vicinity of the city. The largest nugget of gold found here (discovered on October 26, 1842) weighed over 36 kg.

UralAZ truck factory

During the Second World War gave way to the Red Army by the attacking army eastward back and built it in Moscow the entire CIS - truck (lorry) -Fabrikation and brought them to Miass where the factory was well protected rebuilt from attack. The new factory built heavy Ural trucks for the entire Soviet Union . Today around 100,000 people are employed in the production and development facilities. The factory consists of the manufacturing facility and an engine plant, which has been modernized in cooperation with Fiat. The Ural trucks are mostly three-axle and equipped with all-wheel drive, which gives the truck high off-road mobility. 8% of the trucks are exported abroad. UralAZ was classified as one of the 200 largest companies based on sales volume in 200.

State Missile Center "Makeyev Missile Design Office"

The design office was relocated from Slatoust to the western part of the city of Miass under strict secrecy in 1955 . The office develops tactical ballistic missiles such as the R-17 (NATO Code SS-1 “Scud”) and guided ballistic missiles (ICBMs ) with nuclear warheads for nuclear submarines of the Russian Navy such as the R-29RM .

"Sunny Valley" ski area

The “Solnetschnaja Dolina” ( Russian Солнечная долина ) ski area is 10 km away from Miass and is usually referred to as “Sunny Valley” in German-speaking countries.

Remote connections

Miass is located directly on the M5 trunk road , one of the most important Russian east-west axes, which leads from Moscow via Samara , Ufa and Chelyabinsk to the Siberian metropolises Omsk and Novosibirsk as the M51 . The railway line from Moscow and Samara to Siberia also runs through the city.

Attractions

Worth seeing in Miass is the old town with buildings mainly from the 19th, but occasionally also from the late 18th century. Outstanding is the Church of the Holy Trinity, built in 1889, with pompous Orthodox furnishings in the interior. Miass is known for its location in the middle of a lake landscape (partially nature reserve) with 20 lakes surrounded by the mountains of the Urals, as well as for mineral deposits that can also be visited.

sons and daughters of the town

• Weniamin Metenkow (1857–1933), photographer and entrepreneur
• Vladimir Kuznetsov (1887–1963), physicist, materials scientist and university professor
• Viktor Suslin (1942–2012), composer
• Eduard Absalimow (* 1984), boxer
• Nikolai Lemtjugow (* 1986), ice hockey player
• Andrei Konew (* 1989), ice hockey player
• Viktorija Moissejewa (* 1991), curler

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)
2. ^ Sunny Valley on the UralTerra.com website

Web links

Commons : Miass  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Miass on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
• www.miass.ru