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Bashkortostan has a diverse economy, including a large agricultural sector. But the republic's most important industry is chemical processing. Bashkortostan produces more oil than any other region of Russia, about 26 million tons annually, and provides 17% of the country's gasoline and 15% of its diesel fuel.
The Mausoleum of Hussein-Bek, burial place of the first Imam of historical Bashkortostan, is preserved in contemporary Bashkortostan. The mausoleum is a 14th-century building. Catherine the Great established the Orenburg Mohammedan Spiritual Assembly in 1788 in Ufa , which was the first Muslim administrative center in Russia.
The history of Bashkortostan or Bashkiria covers the region in and around the Southern Urals, historically inhabited by Bashkirs. The region has been known by several names, including al-Bashgird , Bashgirdia , Bascardia , Fiyafi Bashqurt (The Bashqurt steppes), Pascatir and similar variants.
Bashkortostan's power-sharing treaty expired on 7 July 2005, [62] [better source needed] leaving Tatarstan as the sole republic to maintain its autonomy, which was renewed on 11 July 2007. [63] After an attack by Chechen separatists at a school in Beslan , North Ossetia , Putin abolished direct elections for governors and assumed the power to ...
Ufa (/ ˈ uː f ə / OO-fə; Russian: Уфа IPA: ⓘ; Bashkir: Өфө, romanized: Öfö, IPA: [ʏ̞ˈfʏ̞] ⓘ) is the largest city in and the capital of Bashkortostan, Russia.The city lies at the confluence of the Belaya and Ufa rivers, in the centre-north of Bashkortostan, on hills forming the Ufa Plateau to the west of the southern Ural Mountains, with a population of over 1.1 million ...
This is a complete list of cities in Bashkortostan. There are 21 cities [ a ] [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] ( Bashkir : ҡала , romanized : qala ) in Bashkortostan . City status was usually granted in imperial times.
Bashkiria (Bashkir: Башҡортостан, romanized: Bashqortostan), also called Bashkortostan, Bashkurdistan, Lesser Bashkiria, or Autonomous Bashkiria, was a short-lived autonomous state which existed from 1917 to 1919, during the Russian Civil War.
The Government of Bashkortostan (Bashkir: Башҡортостан Республикаһы Хөкүмәте; Russian: Правительство Республики Башкортостан) is a governing body of Bashkortostan in Russia which exercises executive power under the authority of the Republic Head whom appoints cabinet which is composed of the Prime Minister, the deputy prime ...