Ufa ( Уфа ) - Bashkir and Islam Capital of Russia

Ufa, the capital and largest city of Bashkiria. also the industrial, economic, scientific and cultural center of the republic. founded as a small tribal settlement but was made a town fortress and outpost on the 14th Century built on the orders of Ivan the Terrible during which the Bashkirs voluntarily agreed to be under Russian protection and served with their battalion under the Tsarist Army. the 18th century, progress and industrialization of Ufa evolved into an administrative, trading, manufacturing and cultural center. During World War II, following eastward Soviet retreat in 1941 because of the Nazis invasion, Ufa became the wartime seat of the Soviet Ukrainian government.