Verkhnyaya Salda

Verkhnaya Salda (Russian Верхняя Салда ) is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast (Russia) with 46 221 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city lies on the eastern edge of the Ural Mountains, about 150 km north of the Oblasthauptstadt Yekaterinburg and 35 km east of Nizhny Tagil, on the River Salda. The climate is continental.

The city Verkhnaya Salda is the Oblast subordinated administratively directly and as the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

Verkhnaya Salda is located on the railway line opened in 1912 Nizhny Tagil - Alapayevsk.

History

Verkhnaya Salda arose in 1778 in connection with the construction of an iron works and foundry. On February 25, 1929, the city received the status of a labor settlement and on December 24, 1938, the city law.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Culture, Education and sights

In Verkhnaya Salda a faculty of the Ural State Technical University (Ekaterinburg ) is established.

Economy

And eponymous - - factory for titanium and titanium alloys, the world's largest titanium producer VSMPO- AVISMA developed on the basis of the iron works the most important is in Verkhnaya Salda.

There are also companies in the construction and food industries.