Ufa

Ufa is the capital city of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia, and the industrial, economic, scientific and cultural center of the republic. As of the 2010 Census, its populace was 1,062,319, making it the eleventh most crowded city in Russia. Early history of the encompassing zone of Ufa goes back to Paleolithic circumstances. Probably, from the fifth to the sixteenth century there was a medieval city on the site of Ufa. On the Pizzigano siblings' guide 1367 and on the Catalan Atlas 1375 a town around on the Belaya River was assigned Pascherti Bashkort, and Gerardus Mercator's guide 1554 likewise denoted the settlement with the Pascherti name.

French orientalist Henri Cordier partners the situation of Pascherti with the present area of Ufa. Ibn Khaldun called the town, among the biggest urban areas of the Golden Horde, Bashkort. Russian student of history of the eighteenth century Peter Rychkov composed that there was an extraordinary city on the domain of Ufa before the landing of the Russians. The authority of the Orenburg Governorate government Vasily Rebelensky composed that Ufa was established by the Bashkirs. By request of Ivan the Terrible a fortification was based on the site of current Ufa in 1574, and initially bore the name of the slope it remained on, Tura-Tau.