Ufa
Ufa is the capital and largest city of Bashkortostan, Russia.

Ufa is the capital and largest city of Bashkortostan, Russia. The city lies at the confluence of the Belaya and Ufa rivers, in the centre-north of Bashkortostan, on hills forming the Ufa Plateau to the west of the southern Ural Mountains, with a population of over 1.1 million residents, up to 1.4 million residents in the urban agglomeration. Ufa is the tenth-most populous city in Russia, and the fourth-most populous city in the Volga Federal District.
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Worth seeing in and around Ufa
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Dynamo Stadium
Dynamo Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Ufa, Russia. It was used mostly for football matches and was the home stadium of FC Ufa prior to their move to Neftyanik Stadium in 2015.
1 km · multi-purpose stadium in Russia · Wikipedia - 02Bashkir State Art Museum (Nesterov Museum)
The Bashkir Nesterov Art Museum is an art museum in Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia. It was established in 1920 by the Government of Bashkortostan.
800 m · Art Museum in Ufa, Russia · Wikipedia - 03Mazhit Gafuri Bashkir State Academic Drama Theater
Bashkir State Academic Drama Theater Majit Gafuri operates in the Ufa city, the capital of the Republic of Bashkortostan of Russian Federations. The foundation of the theater was laid on December 4, 1919, in Sterlitamak – the capital of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
900 m · Bashkir-language Drama Theater in Ufa, Russia · Wikipedia - 04Old Mosque
The Old Mosque, Ufa, commonly known as the Tukayev Mosque, is located in Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia.
1.3 km · mosque in Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia · Wikipedia - 05Ufa Rail Bridge
Constr Ufa rail bridge carries double tracked rail lines over the River Belaya. It is located at Ufa, the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia.
2.7 km · bridge in Russia · Wikipedia - 06Ice Palace Salavat Yulaev
Ice Palace Salavat Yulaev is an indoor sporting arena located in Ufa, Russia. The capacity of the arena is 4,043.
4.8 km · indoor sporting arena in Ufa, Russia · Wikipedia - 07Russia-Bashkir Monument of Friendship
The Russian-Bashkir Friendship Monument is a monument in the city of Ufa, dedicated to the 400th anniversary of the accession of Bashkortostan in Russia, located on a hill above the Belaya River. Construction of the statue began in 1957 in honor of the 400th anniversary of Bashkortostan's entry into the Russian Empire.
1.9 km · monument in Bashkortostan, Russia · Wikipedia - 08Ufa Lenin Museum
The Ufa Lenin Museum is a museum devoted to Vladimir Lenin in Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia. The museum was established in 1941 by the Government of Bashkortostan.
800 m · biographical museum in Bashkortostan, Russia · Wikipedia - 09Sergey Aksakov Memorial House
The Memorial Aksakov Museum in Ufa is a writer's house biographical museum which commemorates the life and work of author Sergey Aksakov in an apartment where he lived in Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia. It is located about two blocks from Republic House.
1.4 km · biographical museum in Bashkortostan, Russia · Wikipedia - 10Munira Ufa Mosque
The Munira Mosque is a mosque in Ufa, in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia.
2.5 km · mosque in Russia · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
What to see in Ufa is a tricky question. On one hand, it is easy to spend more a day here, especially if you visit Chernikovka and other areas outside the center. On the other hand, there no one well-known attraction in the city. Perhaps the best known sight is the Monument to Salavat Yulaev, but for the average traveler, it's just another monument, albeit one with a beautiful setting overlooking the river.
- 01Lenin Monument
Lenina and Kommunisticheskaya, near Gostiny Dvor).
- 02Gostiny Dvor
- 03Gentry Assembly Building
This three-story, mid-19th century mansion is noteworthy because the great Russian opera singer, Fyodor Shalyapin, began his career here.
- 04House of Cooperation
- 05Temple of the Savior
This small copy of the Kazan Cathedral om Saint Petersburg in a one-story Ufa suburb looks really out of place.
- 06Demidov Home
This small, one-story mansion and one-time home to the Demidov miners has magnificent stucco molding and is believed to be the oldest building in the city.
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Things to do
- 01Bashkortostan National Museum
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Where to eat
Restoran Chestnykh Tsen, ul. Lenina 16 (Just opposite to McDonald's). Recommended. Offers meals for about 200R. Tasty Tramcar (in the square outside of Guest's Yard (mall) on Lenin). Only open in the summer. Good cheap schwarma and donuts. The schwarma is like a Russian burrito. ~70 руб per person. Lido, Pushkin, 94 or Mendeleev, 201b. Don't eat anything from the hot bar.
- 01Farfor
Pizza, rolls, sushi, assorted sets, Japanese soups, salads, desserts, main dishes and drinks.
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Getting to Ufa
- Airports
- Ufa (UFA), 19 km · Magnitogorsk (MQF), 236 km
- Magnitogorsk → Ufa242 km · quickest by road, 6h 10m · ₽1,180–1,570
- Perm → Ufa385 km · quickest by air, 6h 19m · ₽4,970–7,670
- Chelyabinsk → Ufa362 km · quickest by air, 6h 19m · ₽4,910–7,590
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Ufa
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Ufa. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inLocal minibuses as well as intercity buses collect passengers here.
- Get inCity buses and minibuses (marshrutki) go to the airport from the city center.
- Get inComing from the center, find a bus/minibus with a sign for «по Ленина» or «Гостиный двор» (for example, routes 101 and 110).
- Get inMinibus service stops after 22:00 or so, while Bashavtotrans buses stop service even earlier.
- Get inVia commercial minibus it's , although drivers sometimes will add a surcharge for bulky baggage.
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