There is a granite obelisk on the territory of Russia, on which you can see the inscriptions: on the one hand - "Asia", on the other - "Europe". This remarkable place is the geographical border of 2 continents, it stretches along the pass through the Ural Range, in the place where the railway, winding a little, approaches the Miass Valley. The obelisk is located 40 kilometers from the city of Miass.
In this article we will describe Miass in more detail. The sights of the city and the surrounding nature are magnificent and worth special attention.
General information
Wanderers and guests in these amazing places discover amazing pictures of magnificent mountain nature: green dense forests, numerous mountain ridges merging with the main ranges of the Southern Urals. Numerous blue lakes stretch from south to north on both sides of the Ilmenskaya ridge. Hugethe territory of the river valley allows the beautiful city of Miass to expand year by year. It spread along the coast for more than 111.9 km² along the Ilmensky and Chashkovsky ridges.
The main sights of Miass are located in the older part of the city. It is a city of three centuries: copper, gold and iron. The most important for the development of the city, of course, was the Golden Age, which came in 1823, when numerous placers of gold were discovered in these territories. For about half a century, the Miass valley was considered the main storehouse of Russian gold.
Sights of Miass: description
Among the mountain ranges and green forests, 10 kilometers from Miass, there is a wonderful ski center called "Sunny Valley". Well-maintained comfortable slopes, the presence of a modern ski lift, equipment rental and a magnificent recreation center attract many tourists.
From the dam of the city pond, a beautiful view of Miass of the Copper Age opens up. This part of the city is notable for the strict rectangular layout of the city of the past centuries. This is due to the fact that the mining department at that time was equated with the military, and therefore everything was built here in a certain established order.
The center of the ancient city is one of the best architectural mining ensembles in the entire Urals. A copper smelter was once located here, which is reminiscent of an old building with a portico of six columns.
Other sights are also interesting. Miass is old and small, but there are many monuments herepast times.
Not far from the center is a rich shopping center with merchant mansions, an abundance of shops, shops and workshops. This is part of Miass of the golden age. Here it is impossible not to pay attention to the old mansion - the magnificent palace of Yegor Simonov (gold miner). The former trading houses of other famous merchants throughout the country are also magnificent.
The presence of a large number of man-made reservoirs in the city is also striking. They are monuments to that very golden age, natural sights. Miass has many similar lakes on its territory. In their place were quarries where gold was mined from sandstones.
History of the formation of the city
The history of Miass is similar to the history of almost all cities of the Chelyabinsk region.
Even in the 18th century, when the riches of the Urals were studied and developed, mining business began to develop rapidly. In the 1970s, L. Luginin (a descendant of the Tula merchant class) bought ironworks in Zlatoust and Troitsk, built a plant for alloying copper near the Miass River near the Chashkovsky Mountains, where large deposits of copper ores were discovered at that time.
Since then, the date of signing by Catherine II of the petition for this construction has been the day the city was founded - November 18, 1773.
Economic Development
The history of the city contains evidence of its unique destiny - historical sights. Miass becameto develop economically mainly thanks to the gold found in these places. The development of its largest deposits is a major part of the history of this city.
In the first half of the 19th century, almost the entire valley of the river. Miass represented a huge gold mine. In total, at that time (1836) there were 54 gold mines and 23 placers in development. It should also be noted that in 1842, Nikifor Syutkin (master) found one of the largest nuggets in the world weighing 36.2 kg, which was called the "Big Triangle".
New Miass
Miass of the copper and golden age is separated from the modern city, which grew in Soviet times, by railroad. There is also a new railway station. Its interior is colorful: it is decorated with marble, cast iron and other stones of local rich bowels. Below are some of the sights in more detail. Miass is rich in them.
- The City Pond Dam is the first structure built on the site of a modern city.
- Ploshchad Truda - the place where the construction of the Miass plant began in 1776. At the same time, this place was considered the square of the factory, trade and church (the first stone church was built), while it had the name Church.
- Mosque (XIX century) in the center of the Miass factory. At one time, the most beautiful minaret in the entire Southern Urals was attached to the building. Around 1925, the mosque was closed, and now its future is being decided.
- "Miasszoloto" not far from Labor Square was built at the end of the 19thcenturies at the expense of Zharov (gold miner). The building was built in an eclectic style with a facade decorated with beautiful stucco.
In conclusion about the reserve
The sights of Miass are not only historical and architectural buildings, which are the most important values of the city. In the Zolotoy valley, its we alth is the lakes and the state Ilmensky reserve, bordering on the outskirts of the old city.
The road to it goes steeply uphill. On the cut-down sites on Ilmen-tau, among the old houses darkened from time to time, more modern buildings of the museum and the laboratory and administrative building turn white. The first contains the richest collection of minerals in the Southern Urals. Almost the entire chemical system of Mendeleev's elements is located here.
The reserve, which is currently a major scientific center, is represented by more than 800 plant species, among which there are many relict ice age.
