Tirlyansky (; , ''Tirlän''), also known as Tirlyan, Tirlian and Bashkir Tirlan, is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

in the

Beloretsky District Beloretsky District (; , ''Beloret rayonı'') is an administrativeConstitution of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Article 64 and municipalLaw #126-z district (raion), one of the fifty-four in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia. It is locat ...

Bashkortostan Bashkortostan, officially the Republic of Bashkortostan, sometimes also called Bashkiria, is a republic of Russia between the Volga river and the Ural Mountains in Eastern Europe. The republic borders Perm Krai to the north, Sverdlovsk Oblast ...

, the center and the only settlement of the Tirlyansk

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. It is located at the confluence of the Tirlian River and the Belaya River 33 km from

Beloretsk Beloretsk (; ) is a town in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia, located on the Belaya River, from Ufa. Population: History Beloretsk Iron Factory was founded in 1762 by merchants I. B. Tverdyshev and I. S. Myasnikov, ...

. The nearest

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is 41 km away. Plans began in 1759 for an iron works in the village but it was not till 1803 that the plant began operations. A full road was only constructed to the town in 1913, built by

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workers. The railway was built soon after. After the construction of an

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in 2001 between Tirlyan and Beloretsk, the movement of passenger trains Beloretsk-Tirlian-Beloretsk was closed since 20 May 2002. By autumn 2003, a section of a

narrow-gauge railway A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge (distance between the rails) narrower than . Most narrow-gauge railways are between and . Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with tighter cur ...

between Tirlyan and Verkhnearshinsky was dismantled. As of the end of 2003, the narrow-gauge line from Beloretsk to Tirlyan remained alive. On it was an irregular movement - mainly the export of rolling stock from Tirlyan to scrap metal. Periodically, from Beloretsk to Tirlian, fuel oil for the boiler room was also delivered. These last 34 kilometers were once the most important section of the Beloretsk railway, where hundreds of passengers drove daily. The last section of the Beloretsk narrow-gauge railway (from Beloretsk to Katayki) was dismantled in the spring and summer of 2007. In 1994 the village was affected by terrible floods.

Landmarks

The ruins of the Tirlyansky iron plant is one of the major landmarks in the village. It was closed after the 1994 flood. Near the ruins of the plant is a huge iron wheel with spokes. This is one of two drivers for the

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. There is still a hollow in the rocks, where the

Beloretskaya Beloretsky District (; , ''Beloret rayonı'') is an administrativeConstitution of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Article 64 and municipalLaw #126-z district (raion), one of the fifty-four in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia. It is locat ...

narrow-gauge railway line (BUW) ran, through which there is a view of the reservoir. File:Тирлянский Железное колесо.jpg, Old Driving wheel for the iron plant File:Тирлянский Выемка.jpg, Railway cutting. File:Тирлянский пруд.jpg, View of the reservoir

Population

References

{{Authority control Rural localities in Beloretsky District