Verkhnyaya Pyshma
Verkhnyaya Pyshma (Russian Верхняя Пышма ) is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast (Russia) with 59 749 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).
Geography
The city is located on the eastern edge of the Middle Urals about 15 km north of Yekaterinburg Oblasthauptstadt the headwaters of the Pyshma, a right tributary of the Tura.
The city is the administrative oblast subordinate directly. The city is under Verkhnyaya Pyshma represents the western neighboring town Sredneuralsk.
History
Verkhnyaya Pyshma was founded in 1660 in place of the village Pyschminskoje. 1854 here was the Kupfererzlagerstätte Pyschminsko - Kljutschewoje. In connection with the Abteufung a first shaft 1856, the mining camp was Medny Rudnik (Russian for copper mine ), which (Russian for Upper Pyshma ) received in 1946 under the present name of a town.
Demographics
Note: Census data
Culture and sights
In Verkhnyaya Pyshma the Russian Orthodox Uspensky Cathedral ( Uspensky Cathedral ) and Ismail Al -Bukhari Mosque as well as a sport palace and swimming pool were built in recent years with the support of the resident mining companies. An ice rink and buildings for a branch of the Ural State Technical University (Ekaterinburg ) are under construction (as of 2007 ). Since 1989, the city has a historical museum.
Economy
Verkhnyaya Pyshma is an important center of metallurgical and chemical industry. The city has among other things one of the major mining companies in Russia, the Ural - Gorno Metallurgitscheskaja Kompanija ( UMMC, also English Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company, UMMC; nationwide over 100,000 employees) headquartered. That the Group subsidiary factory Uralelelektromed in Verkhnyaya Pyshma produces copper, nickel, lead, brass, bronze, gold and silver.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Klavdiia Bojarskich (1939-2009), cross-country skier
- Oleg Kulkow (born 1978 ), marathon runner