The ethnic, religious diversity of Ufa has been developing for ages. Every fragment of it still shines brightly, shading and enriching the whole picture. Russians, Bashkirs, Tatars, Maris, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Chuvashes, Jews, Germans, Udmurts. Entire inflorescence of ethnoses populate Ufa. People here create, work and bring up children. They have learned to live feeling and understanding each other and there could not be the other way. Because the beliefs about right and wrong, justice and simple joy they have are similar.
Traditions of mutual respect and tolerance have formed the cultural ground, that gave great seedings in different years. Under this sky a lot of stars have lighten up, that have given the world the shining of their mind, talant and ispiration. Aksakov and Michail Nesterov, Mazhit Gafuri and Mustai Kharim had been perfoming here.Rudolf Nuriev and Vladimir Spivakov were born and started their way to the world glory in Ufa. The city history s closely connected to the names of Fedor Shalyapin and David Burluk.
Nowadays 7 theatres perfome i the capital of the republic. Museams, galeries and showrooms are bustling. Road tours of some troops are scheduled for years to come. The geography of their tours is the whole world.
Ufa was always proud of its sportsmen.Football and volleyball players, riders, biathelets and short-trackers all have high sport achievements, they know, how it is to be loved and resected by countrymen. However hokey players from the club named after national hero Salavat Ulaev sre especially loved by Ufa residents.Here they are, ice rink heros. two-times champions of Russia, Gagarin Cup and Continent Cup owners.This is how the players from one of the strongest team in Russia look like.And this is their most faihtfull fans. Boys and girls, whose victories we will be proud of tomorrow.
Major sport events taken place in Ufa, among them Junior Hockey Championship and the 6th World Kids Winter Games, assgned to Ufa a status of the World Sport Capital.
Ufa can be fairly called student city. dozens of universities are open here.The biggest of them are two technical universties: Petroleum University and aviation University. The graduates from them are n high demand at labor market in Russia. They are highly rated as young professinals, who have great theoretical knowledge as well as they areable to work with production.
From a bird eye view, Ufa can be seen running beyond the horizon. It hurries to its distances. Dream-like distances. But in this city dreams tend to become projects at first and then come true.
We will not look into tomorrow and share the details of prospective city development, talk about future parks, squares, pedestrian areas, road junctions, beautiful quays, beacause it is already obvious, that Ufa is going to change. It will be another city then. And only love of it will stay the same.