For the last decade, the city of oil workers has been included in the purely most prosperous settlements of the Republic of Tatarstan. Here is the headquarters of the Tatneft oil company, which provides most of the budget revenues. A stable economic situation has a positive effect on the population of Almetyevsk.
Geographic information
The city is located on the left bank of the Zai River (a tributary of the Kama River) in Zakamye, on the slopes of the Bugulminsko-Belebeyevskaya Upland. 265 km to the north-west is the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan - Kazan. The nearest city - Leninogorsk with the Romashkinskoye oil field (the largest in the south of Tatarstan) - 39 km.
The climate in the region is continental with not very cold winters and hot summers. The coldest months are January and February with an average temperature of minus 17.2 ° C, the average temperature in the hottest month (July) is plus 14.9 ° C.
General information
The city is the administrative center of the homonymous district and urban settlement. In terms of population, Almetyevsk (154 thousand people) is in fourth place in the republic. The territory of the city covers an area of 114.98 square meters. km
Railway station Almetyevskaya Kuibyshev railway is located at a distance of 13 km. For air traffic the airport of the neighboring city of Bugulma is used, to which 57 km. Nearby is the federal highway Kazan - Orenburg. From Almetyevsk there is the Druzhba oil trunk pipeline to Central Europe and local oil pipelines to Russian regions.
The office of PJSC TATNEFT, which is the largest city taxpayer, is located in the settlement. In addition, several other oil enterprises and companies associated with this industry work here. For example, the Almetyevsk Pipe Plant, producing oil and gas pipes, and Tatneftedor - one of Tatarstan's largest road construction companies.
Early years
The estimated date of the settlement is considered to be 1719, the founder was Mullah Alma (or Almet). The village was first called Almatovo. In 1743, a highway to Central Asia passed through the village, which accelerated economic development. According to the first revision of 1746, there were twelve yards in the village; the population of Almetyevsk was about "one hundred souls of both sexes." The villagers were engaged in agriculture, and also transported copper ore from many small local mines to the Theological Copper Smelter.
During the census of 1859, there were 214 yards in the village; the population of Almetyevsk was 1, 518 state-owned peasants and Bashkirs. There was a Yamskaya station, inns, a small hospital, a water and windmills, 3 mosques and 2 madrassah schools in the village. A regional fair was held annually in the village. By 1910, the population of Almetyevsk reached 2, 628 people who lived in 500 yards.
Latest time
The first post-revolutionary years were hard for the inhabitants of the village; during the civil war and the hungry 20s, many Almetyevites died. Only at the beginning of the 30s did the economic recovery begin, did the crafts come to life - the manufacture of carts, sledges, tar. In 1930, 3, 100 people lived in the village.
In 1948, one of the country's largest deposits, Romashkino, was opened near the village. Almetyevsk began to grow rapidly, specialists from all regions of the country began to come to work. In 1953, the village receives city status. By 1959, the population of Almetyevsk increased to 50, 949 people. In the subsequent Soviet years, the city developed rapidly, new residential neighborhoods and infrastructure were built. In the last Soviet year, 133, 000 people lived in the city.
In the post-Soviet years, the number of residents had insignificant positive or negative dynamics, mainly due to natural growth. Since 2010, the population of the city of Almetyevsk has been constantly growing due to the stabilization of the situation in the oil industry. In 2017, the maximum number of inhabitants reached 154, 262 people.
