Nizhniye Sergi is a town and the administrative center of Nizhneserginsky District

Nizhneserginsky District

Nizhneserginsky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the 30 in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. The district contains 2 towns, 4 urban-type settlements and 13 selsovets under its jurisdiction....

 of Sverdlovsk Oblast

Sverdlovsk Oblast

Sverdlovsk Oblast is a federal subject of Russia located in the Urals Federal District. Its administrative center is the city of Yekaterinburg formerly known as Sverdlovsk. Population: -Geography:...

, Russia

Russia

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, located in the Ural Mountains

Ural Mountains

The Ural Mountains , or simply the Urals, are a mountain range that runs approximately from north to south through western Russia, from the coast of the Arctic Ocean to the Ural River and northwestern Kazakhstan. Their eastern side is usually considered the natural boundary between Europe and Asia...

 on the Serga River 120 kilometres (74.6 mi) from Yekaterinburg

Yekaterinburg

Yekaterinburg is a major city in the central part of Russia, the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast. Situated on the eastern side of the Ural mountain range, it is the main industrial and cultural center of the Urals Federal District with a population of 1,350,136 , making it Russia's...

. Population:

The local economy centers around the ferrous metal and logging

Logging

Logging is the cutting, skidding, on-site processing, and loading of trees or logs onto trucks.In forestry, the term logging is sometimes used in a narrow sense concerning the logistics of moving wood from the stump to somewhere outside the forest, usually a sawmill or a lumber yard...

 industries. The region features mineral water

Mineral water

Mineral water is water containing minerals or other dissolved substances that alter its taste or give it therapeutic value, generally obtained from a naturally occurring mineral spring or source. Dissolved substances in the water may include various salts and sulfur compounds...

 baths and snowsports.

Nizhniye Sergi is small and provincial, with narrow streets, shady parks and ancient architecture. It was founded in 1743.

Geography

The city is situated on a rolling plain surrounded by mountains, the highest of which reaches 350 meters above sea level. Nizhniye Sergi stretches for 50 km from south to north and for 36 km from east to west. It occupies the territory of 1,900 km².

International dialing code: +734396, postal code: 623090.

Economy

Nizhniye Sergi with its health resort, located on the Montayevo Lake, is a popular destination in the Ural region. The health resort is known for its mineral water that includes 37 elements. The experienced medical personnel helps to overcome different diseases from stomach to heart ache. As for entertainment, here are club, restaurant, Russian bath – house, library and skiing center in winter.

The town is also an industrial center. The economy is based on its plant that produces nails, wires, and other products of ferrous metallurgy

Metallurgy

Metallurgy is a domain of materials science that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their intermetallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are called alloys. It is also the technology of metals: the way in which science is applied to their practical use...

. Most of the production output is exported to the Post-Soviet countries and now the direction of the plant is negotiating with the German company over a possible partnership, so in the nearest future the production will be exported in this country.

External links

• Entry on UralWeb