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 extends along the pass through the Ural Range, in the place where the railway, looping a little, approaches the Miass Valley. The obelisk is located 40 kilometers from the city of Miass.
This article will describe Miass in more detail. The sights of the city and the surrounding nature are magnificent and worth special attention.
General information
Amazing pictures of magnificent mountain nature are revealed to strangers and guests in these amazing places: green dense forests, numerous mountain ridges merging with the main ridges of the Southern Urals. Numerous blue lakes stretch from both sides of the Ilmen ridge from south to north. The vast territory of the river valley allows the beautiful city of Miass to expand from year to year. It stretches along the coast for more than 111.9 km² along the Ilmensky and Chashkovsky ranges.
The main attractions of Miass are 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.
Miass Attractions: Description
Among the mountain ranges and green forests 10 kilometers from Miass, there is a beautiful ski center called “Sunny Valley”. Landscaped comfortable slopes, the availability of a modern ski lift, equipment rental and a great recreation center attract many tourists.
The dam of the city pond offers a beautiful view of the Miass of the Copper Age. This part of the city is notable for the strict rectangular layout of the city of 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. Here once there was a smelter, which is reminiscent of an old building with a portico of six columns.
Other sights are also interesting. Miass is old, small, but there are many monuments of past 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 the 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 same golden age, natural attractions. Miass on its territory has many similar lakes. In their place were quarries where gold was mined from sandstones.
History of the city
The history of the Miass is similar to the history of almost all the cities of the Chelyabinsk region.
Back in the 18th century, when the wealth of the Urals was studied and mastered, mining enterprises began to develop rapidly. L. Luginin (a native of the Tula merchants) bought ironworks in Zlatoust and Troitsk in the 70s, built a plant for copper alloy near the Miass River near the Chashkovsky Mountains, where large deposits of copper ores were discovered in those days.
Since then, the date of signing by Catherine II of the petition for this construction is the day the city was founded - November 18, 1773.
Economic development
The history of the city contains evidence of its unique fate - historical sights. Miass began to develop economically for the most part thanks to the gold found in these places. The development of its largest deposits is the main part of the history of this city.
In the first half of the XIX century, almost the entire valley of the river. Miass represented a huge gold business. In total, at that time (1836) there were 54 gold mines and 23 placers in development. It should 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 age and gold is separated from the modern city, which grew in Soviet times, by rail. There is also a new train station. Its interior is colorful: it is decorated with marble, cast iron and other stones of the local rich bowels. Some of the sights are presented in more detail below. Miass is rich in them.
- The dam of the city pond is the first structure built on the site of a modern city.
- Labor Square - the place where the construction of the Miass Plant began in 1776. At the same time, this place was considered the factory, commercial and church area (the first stone church was built), with the name Church.
- Mosque (XIX century) in the center of the Miass factory. At one time, a beautiful minaret was added to the building throughout the Southern Urals. Around 1925, the mosque was closed, and now its future fate is being decided.
- "Miasszoloto" not far from Labor Square was built at the end of the 19th century at the expense of Zharov (gold miner). The building was built in the eclectic style with a facade decorated with beautiful stucco molding.
In conclusion about the reserve
Sights of Miass are not only historical and architectural structures, which are the most important values of the city. In the Golden Valley, its wealth is lakes and the Ilmensky State Reserve, bordering 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 are whitewashed. The first contains the richest collection of minerals in the South Urals. Here is almost the entire chemical system of Mendeleev’s elements.
The reserve, which is currently a large scientific center, is represented by more than 800 plant species, among which there are many relicts of the ice age.