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The city of Sverdlovsk oblast.
Nizhny Tagil (also spelled Nizhniy Tagil, Nizhni Tagil, Niznij Tagil) is the second largest city of Sverdlovsk oblast of Russia. Nizhny Tagil is one of the largest and oldest mining and metallurgical centers in Russia.
Nizhny Tagil has the population of about 374,000 (2009) on the territory of 298 sq. km.
The phone code of the city is +7 3435; postal codes - 622000-622051.
October 8th, 1722, is considered the date of Nizhny Tagil foundation when the first product - cast iron - was produced at Vyisky plant. The plant was founded by Demidov dynasty, they possessed Tagil plants before the revolution.
There is a myth saying that Tagil metal was used in constructing the Liberty Statue in New York (as if Tagil iron was first sold to a French citizen who afterwards sent the iron bought for the Statue fusing).
The city developed as an industrial center which united cast-iron fusing and iron-making plants, mines and pits. Metal-working crafts were also developed in Nizhny Tagil. Especially famous were chest production and painted trays.
In the first half of 19th century Nizhny Tagil growth was linked first of all with developing copper, gold and platinum industry which was one of the leading industries in the Urals at that time. Nizhny Tagil outnumbered a lot of cities in Russia, in Permskaya gubernia it was the third largest city after Perm and Yekaterinburg, but nevertheless Nizhnytagilsky plant remained a mining and metallurgical settlement.
In 1930 it was decided to form the second coal and metallurgical base in the east of Russia. The industrial base formed before the war in Nizhny Tagil made it possible to locate there dozens of evacuated plants which provided T-34 tanks production together with Uralvagonzavod. Most of the tanks T-34 in the Red Army were produced in Nizhny Tagil.
Nizhny Tagil city street view
Nizhny Tagil city street scenery
Nizhniy Tagil city street
Nizhny Tagil at present is the largest industrial and transportation center in the Middle Urals. Heavy industry plants are leading in the city economics, light and food industries are developing.
Nizhnytagilsky metallurgical plant and Uralvagonzavod are the main ones in the city.
In the city there is a unique museum-reserve “Gornozavodskoy Ural” formed on the basis of the oldest provincial museum opened in 1841 and the old plant. The museum possesses about half a million exhibits.
It includes the following museums: Nizhnytagilsky museum of history and local study, plant-museum, museum of nature, “Cherepanovs’ House” museum of history and techniques, local population crafts’ museum, tray history museum, mineralogical museum, 2 literary museums of the writers A.A.Bodin and D.N.Mamin-Sibiryak.
The founders of Russian steam-locomotive building Ye.A. and M.Ye. Cherepanovs came from Nizhny Tagil. The Khudoyarovs’ painters dynasty worked in the city. V.Ye.Grum-Grzhimailo and K.P.Polenov lived and worked in Nizhny Tagil, writer A.P.Bondin was born and lived there.
In Nizhny Tagil annual international exhibitions take place in early July: “Russian Expo Arms” and “Russian Defense Expo”. Tanks T-90 are produced in the city (“Uralvagonzavod”). Once in 2 years, in early September, the Ural exhibition of railway transportation, automobiles, special transportation and road-building equipment “Magistral” takes place in Nizhny Tagil.
Nizhny Tagil city view
Nizhny Tagil city tram
Nizhny Tagil city administration
Nizhny Tagil city theater
Nizhny Tagil factory museum
Cherepanov house museum view
Nizhny Tagil city monument
Nizhniy Tagil city Lenin monument
Nizhniy Tagil city church view
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