Ufa – the city is not too densely populated, and therefore spacious, clean and beautiful. In the center of Ufa, you can see a lot of objects of antiquity, and in city parks it’s really nice to walk, especially on a warm summer evening, with a glass of cold kvass in hand.
For every inhabitant of Ufa there are almost 700 square meters of urban space. Due to this, the Bashkir capital is called the most spacious Russian megalopolis. The Bashkir capital is the fourth longest city in the Russian Federation. It is also among the top five largest Russian cities by area. Near Ufa there is an extensive system of two dozen caves and mines for the extraction of gypsum. The largest of the caves stretched more than 2.5 km, while the length of the other voids does not exceed 800 meters.
Ufa is the only Russian metropolis where there is not a single street entirely designed for pedestrians. Before the INN was introduced throughout Russia, it was tested in Ufa. Ufa is a city with the smallest number of streets among Russian million-plus cities. The highest Ufa “skyscraper” remains the 26-storey high-rise, in which the bank office is located. Until 2003, buildings comparable in height were available only in Moscow. The oldest of the houses that still adorn the streets of Ufa was built in the 18th century. The one-story residential house has forever gone down in history, as the famous commander Suvorov stayed there.
In Bashkir, the word “Ufa”, written in capital letters, resembles three circles crossed out with lines. Because of the appearance of the stylized letters, the capital of Bashkortostan, as well as its airport and train station, are jokingly called “Three Screws” or “Three Tablets.”
