Sterlitamak

Sterlitamak is the second biggest metropolis in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia, placed at the left bank of the Belaya River Kama's tributary, 121 kilometers or 75 mi from Ufa. The city's call comes from the Bashkir language and literally way "mouth of the Sterlya river". In the start of the 18th century at the region of cutting-edge Sterlitamak there was a post workplace in the road Ufa-Orenburg. Merchant Savva Tetushev, through the decree of the Empress Catherine the Great, based a Marina on the river Ashkadar, which after the merger with the put up office have become called the "Sterlitamak salt pier". Sterlitamak became based in 1766 as a port for the distribution of salt mined up the river.

During the Pugachev's Rebellion of 1773-1775, Sterlitamak was under the manipulate of insurgents, and was sooner or later burned. After the recovery, it became the place of business of Sterlitamaksky Uyezd, and became ultimately granted town fame in 1781. The town grew hastily for the duration of the industrialization inside the overdue 19^th century. At the time, neighborhood landowners established beer brewing, vodka distilling, and leather operating industries. Prior to the abolition of serfdom, the most influential landowners of Sterlitamaksky Uyezd have been the Levashovs from the village of Levashovka, now part of the metropolis, the Mikhaylovs from the village of Mikhaylovka; now Mikhaylovka Microdistrict, the Belousovs from Belousovo, merged into the town in 2001.