Is a city beautiful with only factories ?
By: Ilya Marchenko
Tags: Industry, Photography, Factory, Izhevsk, Russia

I want to tell you about a city that lives thanks to the existence of factories on its land. Basically, people think in stereotypes. And they think that if there is one industrial zone in the city, then it is ugly. Of course, there is some truth in this. But the city is beautiful or not — it depends only on us. In this article I want to prove to you that the devil is not as scary as he is painted. And so I made a selection of beautiful photographs of one of the Russian industrial cities — Izhevsk.

So, let’s begin!

Сrossing bridge at the railway station

I’ll tell you about Izhevsk — this city was founded in 1760 by the Counts Shuvalov as a working settlement of an iron factory located on the Izh River.

Sunset on the Izhevsk pond

Population.

The natural increase is 2473 people. The population density is 2016.8 people / km². The largest population was recorded in 1996–1998, when the city’s population was 654.5 thousand people, since then the city’s population has been declining annually, but since 2011 the city’s population growth has resumed.

Combined heat and power plant and frozen Izhevsk pond

National composition

More than 100 nationalities live in the capital of Udmurtia. According to the results of the 2010 census, more than two-thirds of the townspeople are Russians (68.8%), Udmurts in Izhevsk make up about 14.8%, the third largest nationality is Tatars (8.9%)

The city of Izhevsk is divided into 5 intracity districts (urban districts)

Higher education

Izhevsk is the largest educational and scientific center of Udmurtia. There are 4 state institutions of higher professional education in the city:

- Udmurt State University

- Izhevsk State Technical University

- Izhevsk State Agricultural Academy

- Izhevsk State Medical Academy

Beautiful girl :)

Industry

Izhevsk is a developed industrial center of Udmurtia and the Urals.

The city is known in the country and in the world for the production of high-quality steels, developed mechanical engineering. The main goal of the development of the industrial sector of the economy of Izhevsk is the preservation and development of the existing production potential through its restructuring and adaptation to the changed economic conditions.

The basis of the economic and social development of Izhevsk is industrial production with a share of the number of employees of 31.7% of the average number of employees of organizations in the city of Izhevsk. Industrial enterprises are the main payers of taxes to the city budget.

Sunset after a shower

The economic situation in Izhevsk is characterized by the strengthening of positive trends. The volume of shipped goods of own production, work performed, services rendered in-house for large and medium-sized enterprises in 2014 amounted to 123.2 billion rubles.

There are more than ten factories operating in the city, which make up a large part of the city’s industrial sector.

Combined heat and power plant in the industrial area of ​​the city of Izhevsk

Izhevsk is the largest transport hub in Udmurtia, located at the intersection of air, rail and road transport.

The best tram system in Russia