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A. Occupations -industrial (fuel/chemical/petrochemical refining, ferrous/non-ferrous metallurgy, machine building (aircraft/car/snowmobile engines), metal works, construction, timber and wood processing, food industry, masonry, concrete production, defense industry, agriculture, cattle & horse herding, engineering, education, medicine, government B. Income sources -salaries from industry, retail, service industry, pensions, bartering, black market C. Products/crafts -engines, bricks, concrete, oil/fuel, pharmaceuticals, dairy, tea, beef, matches, synthetic rubber, light bulbs, polyethylene, herbicides, power & mining machinery, electrical apparatii, telephones, typewriters, alcohol/beer products, furniture, veneer, pre-fab houses, vitamins, perfumes, cosmetics, logging/geology instruments, shoes, clothes, coats, yarn, ice cream, candy -lacquered miniatures, jewelry (especially using gems/stones from Urals), wood painting & carving, decorative panels & carpets, native costumes
D. Trade partners -exports to 35 countries, including US, Japan, Sweden, Finland, France, Italy, China, Canada, Turkey, Germany, Slovakia, Poland, Bulgaria E. Modernization & utilities -village houses are wood frame with electricity (though many do not have running water or phones); typical Soviet era high rise apartment buildings with all services provided; an increasing number of more modern brick apartment buildings are being constructed (in fact, B-stan ranks third after Moscow and the Moscow oblact in the number of new apartments being constructed in Russia); in the cities some wood frame homes still do not have running water or phones. -occasionally the water service in the city of Ufa can be a little erratic (i.e., hot or cold water may be shut off arbitrarily at different times of day); sometimes water pressure may be low; there are also occasional electric spikes and sags, though they are not severe in nature F. Other -Bashkortostan is one of the few regions/republics of CIS that is a donor region to the Federation budget. This is largely due to the abundance of oil production and mining. There is some wealth in the republic although it seems evident that the Bashkiri government controls the vast majority of the wealth. |
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A. Food -typical Russian diet of potatoes, onions, salads, fish, occasional
beef & poultry, blini, pelmini, soups, breads. B. Shelter -in the cities the vast majority of people live in apartments, although
in Ufa there are almost 30,000 small wood-frame houses (while there are 305,500 apartments with gas
service). The wealthy of Bashkortostan live in multi-story brick homes and country cottages. C. Clothing -typically Russian, although Western style clothes are becoming much more common. In the villages, especially on Bashkiri holidays, the villagers wear bright and colorful native costumes which are almost identical to those seen in paintings and sketches of native Bashkiris almost 200 years ago.
-adequate basic care clinics in the cities, little or no health care
provisions in the smaller towns or villages. Occasional volunteer (indigenous &
foreign) teams have
traveled by canoe to provide basic health care supplies to villages E. Water (domestic/agricultural) -adequate water supply in the cities; filtration necessary especially
for non- indigenous residents F. Energy/Fuel -plentiful and cheap supply of various grades of gasoline for vehicles;
motor oil expensive but plentiful G. Other -8 sports stadiums, 1 sports palace complex, 13 swimming pools, 67 ski bases, 98 shooting galleries, biathlon grounds, ski jump, 252 gym halls, alpine ski base |
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Living Conditions/Community Development
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