Bashkortostan

The Republic of Bashkortostan is a multinational country with rich historical and cultural traditions.

At present Bashkortostan is one of the most economically strong and politically stable regions of Russia.

The dominating branches of Bashkortostan industry are oil and gas producing and petrochemical complexes, as well as highly technological machine-building.

A peculiarity of the economic course of the Republic is a tendency to its all-round development and simultaneous integration into a system of all-Russian and international economic relations.

Bashkortostan is one of not numerous regions-donors of a budgetary system of the Russian Federation. It enters the group of regions which level of development is greater-than-average one all over the country.

At present the basis of the industrial potential of Bashkortostan is its fuel and energy complex contribution of which comprises about 40% of production, machine building and chemistry – 16-17%, electric power engineering – about 10% and food industry – 8%.

Ufa city, the capital of Bashkortostan, is an administrative, political, economic, scientific and cultural centre of the Republic. The city is situated along the peninsula occupying an elevated plateau at the foot of the Ural Mountains surrounded on three sides by the rivers Agidel, Ufa and Dyoma. Nature endowed this land with unusual beauty which is famous far outside Bashkortostan. Beautiful plains stretch side by side with the mountain ridges, endless steppe adjoins thick forests. Climate here is continental. Each who comes into the capital of Bashkortostan, Ufa, is struck by the way it fits into the natural landscape. On the hill of the right bank of the river Belaya, where a century ago a fortress was laid, a monument to Friendship with symbolic figures of Russia and Bashkortostan rises.

Industry of the city has a multi-branch structure, the basis of which are fuel, chemical and petrochemical branches, machine building and metal processing.

There are 11 higher educational institutions, 5 universities among them. The leading higher educational institutions of Ufa have a high rating and, as a rule, rank among the first dozen of the best higher educational institutions of the related profile in the Russian Federation. In higher educational institutions the main potential of scientific workers (about 75% of all scientific workers with scientific degrees) is concentrated, schools of organic chemistry and chemistry of high-molecular compounds, petrochemistry and oil refining work successfully.