'''Bashkortostan''' is a region in the foothills of the Ural Mountains, bordering Tatarstan to the west, Udmurtia to the northwest, Perm Krai to the north, Sverdlovsk Oblast to the northeast, Chelyabinsk Oblast to the east, and Orenburg Oblast to the south.

Regions

Cities

  • Ufa — the big (over one million residents) capital of Bashkortostan
  • Krasnousolsky — a village in the sparsely populated and beautiful Gafuriysky Region of Bashkortostan
  • Neftekamsk — an oil city
  • Oktyabrsky — a good sized city with a love for auto-racing
  • Salavat — a mid-sized oil city
  • Sterlitamak — Bashkortostan's second largest city and a major center of chemicals production
  • Other destinations

  • Bashkiria National Park
  • Bashkirsky Nature Reserve
  • Shulgan Tash Nature Reserve
  • Understand

    Bashkortostan is named for its native Bashkir people, a Muslim people who speak a Turkic language. Bashkirs, Tatars, and ethnic Russians each comprise roughly one third of the population of the region.

    Bashkortostan is sometimes called _gsecond Switzerland _h: high mountains and expansive steppes, evergreen forests and 600 rivers and 800 lakes. Various kinds of tourism and sport are very popular here, for example rafting and alpine skiing.

    Talk

    Bashkir, a Turkic language closely related to Tatar, shares official status with Russian. Tatar is also widely spoken. But nearly everyone is at least bilingual in Russian.

    Get in

    International flights arrive at Ufa from Baku, Frankfurt, Yerevan, and Istanbul. Domestic flights from Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Syktyvkar, Krasnoyarsk, Yekaterinburg, and others.

    Ufa is one of the principal stops on the South Ural route of the Trans-Siberian Railway. Trains also arrive from nearby cities Orenburg, Samara, and Chelyabinsk. The daily train from Moscow takes 26 hours. It is also possible to arrive by train from northern Kazakhstan.

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