Arti (russian: Арти) is an urban locality (an

urban-type settlement Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...

) and the

administrative center An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located. In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, Lu ...

of Artinsky District of Sverdlovsk Oblast,

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, located on the Artya River at its confluence with the

Ufa River The Ufa (, , ''Qariðel'', ''Qaraidel'', literally ''The Black Idel'') is a river in the Ural Mountains, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Sverdlovsk Oblast, and the Republic of Bashkortostan; a right tributary of the river Belaya.Yekaterinburg Yekaterinburg ( ; rus, Екатеринбург, p=jɪkətʲɪrʲɪnˈburk), alternatively romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk ( rus, Свердло́вск, , svʲɪrˈdlofsk, 1924–1991), is a city and the administra ...

and southeast of

Krasnoufimsk Krasnoufimsk (russian: Красноуфи́мск) is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Ufa River (a tributary of the Kama), from Yekaterinburg. Population: . History It was founded in 1736 as Krasnoufimskaya fortress that ...

. Population: 13,800 (1968).

History

It was founded in 1783 when merchant Lugin built a mechanical plant in the area. During the 19th century the majority of the population was employed by this plant. The plant's products were held in high regard not only in

—

scythe A scythe ( ) is an agricultural hand tool for mowing grass or harvesting crops. It is historically used to cut down or reap edible grains, before the process of threshing. The scythe has been largely replaced by horse-drawn and then tractor mac ...

s produced in Arti, for example, received an award at the

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technical exhibition. In 1917, the plant became one of the first to be nationalized. Arti is also known for the first Ural Geophysical Station, which was established there in 1870. In 1874 the

Artinskian In the geologic timescale, the Artinskian is an age or stage of the Permian. It is a subdivision of the Cisuralian Epoch or Series. The Artinskian likely lasted between and million years ago (Ma) according to the most recent revision of th ...

Age of the

Permian The Permian ( ) is a geologic period and System (stratigraphy), stratigraphic system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic Period 251.9 Mya. It is the last ...

Period of geological time was named for the Artinsk area by Alexander Karpinsky. In 1918, Arti was a place of an anti-

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rebellion, during which many people were killed. After the end of the

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, Arti remained the only producer of scythes in the whole country. During the

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, the plant started to manufacture sewing machines and needles.

Economy

Nowadays Arti is a rapidly developing settlement, where the majority of its economic growth is in the sphere of services. Unemployment rate is rather low (3.02%). Twenty percent of the unemployed are people with higher education as there is practically no vacant positions for them in Arti at the moment.

References

{{Sverdlovsk Oblast Urban-type settlements in Sverdlovsk Oblast Krasnoufimsky Uyezd