Arti
Arti (Russian Арти ) is an urban-type settlement in Sverdlovsk Oblast (Russia) with 12,881 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).
Geography
The settlement is located on the western flank of the Middle Urals, some 150 km ( straight line ) southwest of Yekaterinburg Oblasthauptstadt dammed a creek Artja, a little above its mouth from the left in the Ufa The Artja is here to a small dam.
Arti is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons Arti.
History
The village was founded in 1783 in connection with the establishment of an ironworks that after the river - ARTINSKI was called zavod - possibly derived from the word for the fish mansischen Aland. Since the mid -18th century there was a mill at this point. The settlement was initially named the same as the work that started operations in 1787; later it was shortened to Artinskian and Arti.
From 1809 the factory which specialized in the manufacture of scythe blades. In 1811 it went over to the State. In consequence of its products have been shown among others in the world exhibitions in London in 1851 and Paris in 1876 and awarded; the place grew especially in the third quarter of the 19th century quickly.
In 1923, the city administrative center of a Rajons, 1929, he was awarded the status of an urban-type settlement under its present name.
Population Development
Note: 1959-2002 Census data
Culture and sights
Arti has a small history museum, a branch of the Sverdlovsk Oblastheimatmuseums. In the village a number of factory and administrative buildings from the mid -19th century have been preserved.
In the area there are several botanical and geological natural landmarks. These include the oak forest Potaschkinskaja Dubrawa the village Potaschka, which marks the eastern limit of distribution of the pedunculate oak (Quercus robur), and in 1884 the geologist Alexander Karpinski examined fossil locality with ammonites, brachiopods and belemnites in the limestone of the mountain Kaschkabasch (also Romanow uwal ). After the place name Karpinski suggested the name in use today Artinskian for the corresponding chronostratigraphic stage of the Permian.
Economy and infrastructure
The most important companies in the settlement until today, which evolved from the old ironworks factory, scythes and other garden and agricultural equipment as well as manufacturing sewing and sewing machine needles since the 1940s. In addition, agriculture and forestry operations in the area.
The nearest railway stations are located about 50 kilometers north-west in Krasnoufimsk on the Moscow- Kazan - Yekaterinburg and east at Mikhailovsk and Nischnije Sergi on the backroad Tschussowoi - Berdjausch. About these cities consists in two directions and road access to the trunk road R242 and part of the European Route 22 Perm - Yekaterinburg, also in a southwesterly direction Njasepetrowsk in the neighboring Chelyabinsk Oblast.
At the site there is a monitoring station of SDCM system.
Personalities
- Mikhail Ossinow (* 1975 in Arti ), footballer, captain of FK Rostov