General information
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Novouralsk (Russian: Новоуральск) is a closed town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. Population: 95 414 (2002 Census).

The city of Novouralsk, formerly known as Sverdlovsk-44, is situated on the eastern side of Ural mountain range, about 70 km north of Yekaterinburg. Although it came into being during World War II, and was named Novouralsk in 1954, it was kept secret until 1994, and has since had closed city status.

The city is laid out in a grid format, divided north/south by the central street on which the main administrative center is located. It is sub-divided into five residential districts, each covering 10,000 hectares. The city's economy is dominated by the nuclear, automobile and construction industries.




Closed sity
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Many nearby residents go to work and study in the city, demanding from the badge. For admission to the city of kin resident of the city issued a temporary pass, which can be obtained no earlier than two weeks. Pass system prevents the development of the city's economy and in connection with the presence of a separate security zone around the protected production is unnecessary. The presence of status but in the early 1990's provide tax breaks to companies of the city. In what tax breaks were abolished.



Geographic feature
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Location

City Novouralsk located 67 km north of the Sverdlovsk region Ekaterinburg in the upper reaches of the river Neiva, on the shores of Upper Neyvinskogo pond.

Time zone

Novouralsk, like the rest of the Sverdlovsk Region, is in the time zone designated by the international standard as the Yekaterinburg Time Zone (YEKT / YEKTST). UTC offset is +5:00 (YEKT, winter) / +6:00 (YEKTST, summer), since in this time zone for daylight saving time. With respect to the Moscow time zone has a constant offset +2 hours, and is denoted in Russia, respectively, as MSK +2. Ekaterinburg time is different from a lap time of one hour as in Russia the standard time.

Climate

Novouralsk is within the temperate continental climate characterized by a sharp variation of weather conditions, well-defined seasons. Ural mountains, in spite of their small height, waylaid by air masses coming from the west, from the European part of Russia. As a result of the Middle Urals is open to the invasion of cold arctic air and strong continental air considerably cooled the West Siberian Plain, while to the south here can freely penetrate the warm air masses of the Caspian Sea and the deserts of Central Asia. Therefore, for Novouralsk and is characterized by sharp fluctuations in temperature and the formation of weather anomalies: winter - from the harsh cold to thaw and rains in the summer - the heat above +35 ° C until frost.



History
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In February 1941, laid the foundation Novouralsk. On lands located west of the station Upper Neyvinsk, began construction of a plant light-alloy № 484 People's Commissariat of Aviation Industry and residential village with him.

Population
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Novouralsk relatively young: the average age of its residents - 35 years.

Human resources constitute 65.7% of the population.

Average life expectancy in the city are: men - 67.1 years, women - 75.3. Population - 94 thousand people (on 01.01.1996).



City Sights
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Attractions include: the Hanging Stone, Seven Brothers, Cape Verde, the peak of Europe and Asia.



Education
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The city operates Industry scientific-industrial complex, which employs 100 doctors and candidates of sciences, Urals Institute of Advanced Studies, Progress, Novouralsk State Institute of Technology, Polytechnic college, medical school, teacher training colleges, vocational schools, 22 secondary schools (including school settlements Murzinke, Taraskovo, Palniki, Pochinok, Elan, occurring in the closed, formed in 1996).

12 children's municipal preschools and 27 child combines ODOU UEIP that with 01.01.2011g. fully transferred to the municipality.

There is a strong unit of additional education:

  • center of creativity of students and youth;
  • between school industrial plant;
  • station young technicians;
  • children's and teen clubs.
There is an art school.

The School of Music (to expand the recently its status as an arts school) more than 1000 students.

Secondary education


The city Novouralsk 15 schools, 2 of them Gymnasium



Culture and Art
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Museums

  • Municipal History Museum.

Theaters

  • Operetta Urals
  • Puppet Theatre "The Tale"

Cinema

  • Cinema "Neiva". Previously were: cinema "Rodina" (now in this building has a library) with two cinemas ("pink" and "green" - the color of the walls) and cinema at the House of Culture "Builder".

House of Culture

In Novouralsk two Houses of Culture, which operate successfully vocal and dance, folk and pop, children's and adult groups:

  • House of Culture UEIP
  • House of Culture "Builder"

Library

  • Library ECV-123 - the oldest in the city. Opened in 1949 on the basis of fund and technical library of the plant № 813, as the factory committee library number 9 on the street. Lenin, 14.
  • Central City Library for Children and Youth.
  • Central City Library is one of the modern computerized libraries in the region, work is interested in the Soros Foundation.

Mass media


Printed
  • The newspaper "Contact".
  • The newspaper "Our Town".
  • Newspaper "Neiva".

Television

  • CBM "Telecommunications" Novouralsk Broadcasting Company:
    (Broadcast channels: First Channel, Russia, the Urals, NTV, STS, Home, TNT, Channel Five / Echo TV Novouralsk, Ren-TV, Russia-2, TV-Center, DTV, Russia-24, Star, ITV, Culture , New York, RU.TV, Union, TNV; in figures: Judge, RBC, TV-3, 7TV, MTV, Muz-TV, Sport 1, LST)
  • Cable TV UEIP "Perspective":
    (Broadcast channels: First Channel, Russia, the Urals, NTV, STS, Home, TNT, Muz-TV, Chanson-TV, TDK, carousel, TV-3, 7TV, PTV, Culture, Channel Five / Echo TV Novouralsk, Ren TV, Russia-2, TV-Center, DTV, Russia-24)
  • Commercial digital television package LLC Elektosvyaz.Seti.Sistemy:
    (Broadcast channels: TV-1000, Explorer, children / TV Club, Our Film, Nostalgia, NST, National Geodraphic, VH-1, History, TV-1000 Russian film, Dom Kino, Vremya, Telenyanya, Viasat Sport, Hunting and Fishing , Drive, music of the first 365 days of TV, Discovery Channel, Eurosport, Animal Planet, TV-1000 Action, Kinosoyuz, Our New Movies, Comedy TV, Manor, Kitchen TV etc.)
  • HD Platform LLC Elektosvyaz.Seti.Sistemy: (broadcast channels: Teleputeshestviya HD, MTVN HD, Eurosport HD, HD Sport, Film screening HD - 1, Film screening HD - 2, High Life, Women's World, HD Life, Nat Geo Wild HD)

Radio Stations

  • Retro FM 87,8
  • Russian Radio 101.6
  • Humor FM 102,2
  • Chanson 103.4
  • Militia wave 103.9
  • Europa Plus 104.3
  • Record Radio 106,6
  • Novouralsk FM 107,3
  • Autoradio 107.9
Architecture
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The area of the city about 10 thousand hectares.

The first project for the city Novouralsk (then village in the company) was developed by the Leningrad Design Institute GSPI-II.

Composite core for the city is the central Lenin Street, running from north to south. On this highway is historically the administrative center of the city. The city is divided into five residential districts: Central District - an area "of the old quarters, Privokzalny district creates a front facade of the old main entrance and pond. The Western District is situated between the river and spurs of the Main Ural Mountains. Southern region - an area of modern construction. South-western region of partially built up with individual houses. This provision for a multi-storey building for the future.



Districts
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The city is divided into residential areas:

  • Central - the area of "old neighborhoods";
  • Avtozavodskii - an area in the heart of downtown;
  • Privokzalny - creates elegant facade of the main entrance and pond;
  • Parkovyi - an area located between the central and southern areas;
  • West - Located between the river and the main spurs of the Ural mountain range;
  • South - a new modern area which includes neighborhoods 21 and 22, and 23 neighborhood residents called the city "Santa Barbara";
  • South-West - the area, partly built up with individual dwellings, the provision for a multi-storey building for the future.

Economy
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Novouralsk - one of the first centers of the nuclear industry in the Middle Urals. In December 1945, the Government of the USSR Council of Ministers decided to establish the nuclear industry. In 1946, Novouralsk started building the country's first gaseous diffusion plant for the production of highly enriched uranium. In 1949, the plant material was obtained for the first Soviet uranium atomic bomb. In the creation of the atomic center was attended by leading scientists, engineers and skilled workers. Today, there is located and operates one of the largest enterprises of Ural - Ural Electrochemical Integrated Plant (UEIP), received the 1992 European Prize of the Club of trade leaders "for high quality products.

Leading role in the development of te city belongs UEIP and Ural Automobile Plant (UAMZ), now the plant Automobiles and Motors of the Urals (Amur). The factory was founded in 1967 as a branch of the Moscow Automobile Plant named after Likhachev.

Since the inception of the camp on the territory of today's acts Novouralsk Sredneuralskaya Construction Management, established for the creation and development of industrial and social spheres of the city. Hands of employees of this company is built not only our city, but many facilities in various Russian cities.

  • JSC "Ural Electrochemical Plant" - forming enterprise. The world leader of the separation of isotopes of uranium production.
  • ZAO "Automobiles and Motors of the Urals"(He was a former UAMZ - The Ural Automobile Plant). ZAO Automobiles and Motors of the Urals - the only company in the Sverdlovsk region automotive industry - dates back to 1967. Today, a modern factory for the production of trucks, utilities and heavy machinery.
  • Newspaper "Neiva" - City of socio-political newspaper. Founded in January 1991. All these years in Novouralsk it invariably leads in circulation among the local newspapers. Founders: forming enterprise JSC "Ural Electrochemical Plant, the city administration, the Duma IEG, LLC Publishing Company" Neiva Press. Format: A3. Periodicity: The newspaper is published twice a week. Distributed in the following cities: Novouralsk, Kirovgrad, Upper Tagil , Nevyansk, Section Upper Neyvinskom.
  • OOO "Novouralsk DOC "
  • OOO "VISA-yachts"Shipyard VISA Yacht One of the leading shipyards in Russia, producing small boats. The shipyard performs full-scale production of boats, "Neiva" and "Tortilla", boats and motor boats "Legant, construction sailing yacht minitonnikov« Vesenta », as well as the vehicle is sailing and boats« VIZA »up to 12 meters.
  • DO "Cape Verde"
  • DO "Spring"
  • OOO GostSnab"
  • OOO "PAMIVIDEO"
  • OOO "Zavod Medsintez"- the production of medicines
  • OOO "Bread" - the production of bakery products
  • OOO "Novouralsk meat plant"- the third meat processing plant, Sverdlovsk region.

Transportation
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Rail service

Through the station Upper Neyvinsk Sverdlovsk railway passes zheleznodrozhnaya highways connecting Ekaterinburg Nizhny Tagil.

Bus service

Well-established public transportation system allows you to keep alive the interaction between all residential areas. Transport facilities Novouralsk - it's 150 buses, of which the line of travel daily from 102 to 110 buses. Passenger transport provided by municipal transport company (UAT), as well as private transport companies. In addition to routes Novouralsk urban district, there is a message from the neighboring cities: Yekaterinburg, Pervouralsk Kirovgrad, Upper Tagil, Nevyanskiy as well as towns Upper Neyvinsk and Navy Rudyanka.

Air transport

Nearest airport - Koltsovo in Ekaterinburg. Approximately 80 km. from Novouralsk.

Social sphere
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City in its socio-economic and intellectual potential can lead to permanent middle level in all indicators of scientific and industrial base, the quality of life and improvement areas of habitat.

Novouralsk has an extensive social infrastructure. An extensive network of retail and consumer services, offering the public a diverse range of goods and services. Daily needs of residents provide more than 100 retailers, two mini-markets, 53 public catering, consumer services, post offices and electronic communications. The health system consists of 4 municipal offices: "Hospital", "Dental Clinic", "first aid station," the Bureau of Forensic Medicine, Medical unit UEIP and Gossanepidnadzor, 7 pharmacies, 3 dispensary, 7 polyclinics, outfitted with modern facilities, employing 2,5 thousand specialists.



Sports
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In Novouralsk created favorable conditions for physical culture and sports. At the disposal of urban stadiums, swimming pools, sports complex chetyrehzalny (more than 15 years, is under renovation), gymnasiums, indoor hockey court, lighted ski trail.



Swimming

In 1966 the city was built by the Sports Palace with a swimming pool. In the nineties the building was extended due to additional space for the youngest residents of Old town 2004-2005, was the reconstruction of the Palace of Sports. Educational school № 40, № 48 are the 25 m swimming pool. Many preschools have a small pool, where children are taught skills plavaniya.Sportivnaya swimming base established in the children's youth sport school № 4 city Education Department Novouralsk. In the Youth № 4 employs 14 coaches, of whom deserved: Vladimir Statkevich, Lidia Kapkova, Alexander G. Kibenko. Section Navigation prepared 24 masters of sports, Elvira Vasilkova-bronze and silver medalist-80 in Moscow. Danila Izotov, Nikita Lobintsov - silver at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing in the 4x200 meters relay.



Famous people of the city
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  • Belousov Valeriy Konstantinovich - covetsky hockey player and coach, coach of the Russian Ice Hockey, World-class athlete in hockey, Honored coach of Russia.
  • Izotov Danila Sergeevich - Russian swimmer, a member of the Russian national team since 2008, Olympic medalist and world championships, the European champion.
  • Kondakov Sergey - the leader of the rock group Reflection
  • Lobintsov Nikita Konstantinovich - Russian swimmer, a member of the Russian national team since 2005. Silver medalist at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Silver and bronze medalist of European Championship 2009. Serebryannyy and bronze medalist chemionata world in 2010.
  • Plotnikov, Boris G. - Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, People's Artist of Russia.
  • Valery Yazev Afanasyevich - State Duma of the Russian Federation, second, third, fourth and fifth convocation.

Honorary citizens of the city

  • Cooper, Nikolai Ivanovich - world-class athlete, world champion in ski orienteering.
  • Kikoin Isaac K. - an experimental physicist, a member of the Academy of Sciences in the Department of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Academician of the Division of Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Physics).

Dyakov Andrey © 2011