Welcome to Ufa, the capital of Bashkortostan and one of the scientific, cultural and economic centres of the country, founded in 1574 by Tsar Ivan IV (the «Terrible» ). Ufa today offers you every thing from a business point of view with more than one hundred plants in the industrial zone offering a variety of industries from metals to perfumes and cosmetics. Ufa's reputation for instrument making and machine building together with its refining and petro-chemical processing has led the development and success of the Bashkortostan region.