Neftekamsk (Tat., Bashk. Neftekama) is a city in Russia, in the north-west of Bashkiria. Population 131,000 people, the fourth city in the republic in terms of population after Ufa, Sterlitamak and Salavat. City is located in the Cis-Urals, on the left bank of the Kama River (8 km from it).
Orthodoxy
Cathedral of Peter and Paul
Islam
Public
Mosque "Light of Faith"
Public Mosque "Light of Faith" (beginning:
Public Mosque "Light of Faith") is an Islamic temple (public mosque)
located in the village of Neftekama, Bashkortostan. The Central
Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Russia is run by the local Muslim
religious organization "130th Parish in Neftekam" as part of the
Neftekamsk Khanate. Imam-ahun - Sabirzhan Hazrat Salimgareev, son of
Akhmetgarey.
Until the local Muslim religious organization built a mosque, Friday
prayers were held in Kasevo. It took place on Vorobiev Street, 53 in the
village. The mistress of this house was Mrs. Samira Gainanova (born in
1909 in the village of Menzala Oyaz, Stary Semiostrov).
In 1991,
there was not a single mosque in Neftekam and the Kyzyl-Kam region.
Even after registration, the local religious organization of Muslims
acts with the beginning of the construction of the mosque. With the
approval of the mayor of the city, Salavat Kormanov, a land plot was
allocated next to the former Kometa cinema.
In 1992, the Muslim
community of the city unanimously elected Sabirzhan Salimgareev, the son
of Akhmetgarey, who retired from the post of process engineer of the 5th
oil field of the Arlanneft Oil and Gas Production Department, as
Imam-Khatib. Sabirzhan Khazrat Salimgaraev graduated from the Islamic
University of Russia.
The building of the mosque, the ablution
hall and the dwelling house for the Imam-Khatib were built by the
employees of the Novator Youth Center (engineer A. Yamaletdinov,
architect R. Gizdullina). R. Sharipov made an estimate for the
construction part of the mosque, L. Zaitseva is building it. B. The team
of the Bashzhilkommunproekt workshop, under the leadership of Solonko,
performs engineering networks, as well as the design of earthworks on
the territory, and the creation of a general estimate.
In 1993,
the foundation stone of the mosque was laid. The construction of the
mosque was carried out by SU-4 and the BNPS trust.
The Neftekam
Public Mosque was built in 1995. A brick building in the style of a
classical mosque, without a dome, a high minaret several stories above
the entrance. Accommodates 400 people.
The technical school of
mechanical engineering moved from its hostel, and the Light of Faith
madrasah is also under the same roof as the mosque. In 2014, a separate
madrasah building and a prayer hall for women were built.
Neftekamsk akhon UDN unites Novosylsky, Kaltasinsky, Kyzyl-Kamsky
districts and Muslims of the city of Neftekam. From 1992 to 2020, 32
mosques have been built and are successfully operating in the
Kyzyl-Kamsky, Kaltasinsky, Novozhovylsky districts.
The head of the Neftekamsk akhon of the Central Spiritual
Administration of Muslims of Russia is Sabirzhan hazrat Salimgarey,
imam-akhon of Akhmetgarey.
Khamza Khametnurov - imam of the public
mosque "Light of Faith".
Press agency
The publishing body of
Neftekam Akhon is the Islam Nur newspaper published by the Public Mosque
of Neftekam. Editor - A. Sh. Shakirov.
Geographic Information
It is located in the southeastern part of the republic, along the Kama
River, 220 km from Ufa.
The history of Neftekama begins in 1947 with the discovery of oil in
well No. 3, located near the Mari village of Arlan in the Kyzyl-Kama
region. In 1957, near the village of Kachau, the construction of an
oilmen's town began.
A large and powerful subdivision of the
Bashneft association, the Arlanneft department, has been created. In
addition to houses for oil workers, social facilities appear, such as a
pharmacy, a school, a kindergarten, a bathhouse, and a cinema. Neftekama
is a working settlement located along the Kama River. In 1959, the
rapidly growing residential area was given the status of a workers'
settlement, and in 1963, the status of a city. During this period, two
large factories were built here - artificial leather and an automobile
factory.
In connection with the increase in oil production, there
is a problem of energy supply to the industry, which has been growing
for fifty years. Thus, a decision was made to build a reservoir and a
new power plant, and in the sixties the construction of the Karman
hydroelectric power station began. Today, Karmanskaya GRES is one of the
largest power plants not only in Bashkortostan, but also in Russia,
providing energy for half of the republic and neighboring regions.
Neftekamsk is located in the north-forest-steppe subzone of the
temperate zone. The climate is continental, summers are warm, winters
are moderately cold (the lowest recorded temperature is the winter of
1962 -52 °C) The average temperature in January is -13.7 °C, the maximum
is -22.8 °C; July +19.3 °C, maximum +42.3 °C. The average annual air
temperature is +3.2 °C. The average rainfall is 577 mm.
mass
media
Until 2006, the Kyzylkamsk regional newspaper "Kamskiye
Tannary" was a joint publication with "Neftekama", but after that the
city authorities stopped cooperation with the Tatar publication.
The editorial office of the republican newspaper "Cholman" in the Mari
language is located in Neftekam. It is published once a month, with a
circulation of 3900 copies.
Neftekama produces industrial products worth 40 billion rubles a
year. Of these, only 7% is accounted for by oil producers:
Bashneft-Geostroy LLC NUBR, Arlan UES LLC, Arlanneft LLC
Bashneft-Dobycha.
The economic state of the city is determined by
the Neftekama automobile plant, which is part of the KamAZ group. JSC
"Nefaz" produces 30% of buses in Russia and 40% of the fleet of liquid
vehicles. In 2010, NefAZ accounted for 14% of the production in the
city, and in 2012, if the city's organizations produced products worth
38.5 billion rubles, then NefAZ accounted for 26% of them. It employs
more than eleven thousand people. The NefAZ company is one of the
leaders in Russia in the production of high-class passenger buses, tanks
and trailers, time buses, and autonomous vehicles.
Society
"Factory of artificial leather" also has its place in the market. Also,
a significant contribution to the development of the city is made by the
products of the Neftekamsk oil industry, the Neftekamsk machine-building
plant, the Amya Timber Plant society, the Neftekamsk leather and
haberdashery factory.
Karmanskaya GRES produces half of the
republic's electricity. It is the largest manufacturer in the city,
accounting for 42% of production.
The Neftekama oilfield
equipment plant employs 1,400 people.
Agricultural processing
industry: "Kama bacon association".
The length of internal roads of Neftekama is 256 km. The highways
Ufa-Nozhovyl, Samar-Ufa (Neftekamsk-Dyurtoyl-Buzdak) pass through
Neftekamsk. The Neftekama-Novivil railway network connects the city with
the Gorky railway.
Neftekamsk Airport, located 6 km from the city
center, is currently not in use and does not operate passenger flights.
There are 22 schools in the city, including the Bashkortostan Gymnasium and the Physics and Mathematics Lyceum. In the 2010-11 school year, 14,950 children attended school.
A branch of the Bashkortostan State University, opened in 2000,
offers higher education. There are currently 3,000 students studying
here.
The second most important educational institution is the
branch of the Ufa Aviation University. 8 representative offices of other
universities, 5 branches.
Since 1991, the international song contest "Mountain of Friendship"
of Tatar and Bashkir performers has been held. Every year (every 4 years
in 2013-2017) a competition is held and every year the owners of talents
from many regions take part in it. Amateur performers aged 16 to 35 and
first-year students of music schools participate. In 2017, the famous
singer Farida Kudasheva was nominated for the Friendship Hill
international song contest.
There is a group of Tatar artists in
the city philharmonic society.
Ratmir Mauliyev (born 1989), head of the administration of the Neftekama urban district (2019-2022), Ufa (since 2022).