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Orenburg is one of the most beautiful cities in Russia. It has remarkable architectural monuments that have survived since its foundation and examples of monumental art, has many museums, ancient Orthodox churches and a large number of other sights. Its visiting card is the famous local down products, and the words from the well-known song of Lyudmila Zykina "Orenburg down shawl" became the best advertisement to the city at all times.
Orenburg is located on the Ural River, where the river Sakmara flows into it. The city is the administrative center of Orenburg Region. It is separated from Moscow by a huge distance of 1441 kilometers. The population of Orenburg, according to 2018 data, is 564,443 people.
Orenburg is rightfully called the largest political and industrial center of the entire Ural-Volga region, as well as a leading scientific and educational center, where a network of research institutes successfully operates. The city has a large network of educational institutions - it is Orenburg State University, Pedagogical, Medical and Agrarian Universities, Presidential Cadet School (by the way, the first in the country), institutes of different profiles and other educational institutions, including specialized secondary ones.
With Orenburg associated names of many prominent personalities: poets T.G. Shevchenko, A.N. Pleshcheyev, G.R. Derzhavin and Musa Dzhalil, historian N.M. Karamzin, cartoonist Harry Bardin, geologist Evgraf Fedorov, the creator of fables I. A. Krylov, lexicographer Vladimir Dahl, cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, a prominent figure in the Communist Party, Georgy Malenkov, former Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and others. Yuri Gagarin was educated here in the flight school.
A monument has been erected on the avenue named after him, and a memorial museum has been opened in the apartment, where the first cosmonaut lived. Grigory Bakhchivandzhi, known as the world's first jet plane test pilot, studied at the same flight school. Composer AA Alyabiev lived here in exile. The land of Orenburg was also the footstep of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin. The poet was here in 1833, when he was collecting materials about Yemelyan Pugachev, some of which were included in the story "Captain's Tale.
