Business and industry

The city’s industry is represented by 28 enterprises, including 12 of the food industry, 2 of light industry, 6 of metal industry, and 4 of construction industry. Ussuriysk has always specialized in the production of consumer goods. That is why at present it is in a more favorable situation as compared with other large cities of Primorye where enterprises of war industry prevailed. The largest enterprises of light industry are Primorsky Sakhar (which provides the Russian Far East with sugar, producing 160,000 tonnes per year), Dalsoya (which produces vegetable oil, margarine, and soap), Ussuriysky Balsam (24 kinds of liqueur and vodka products, and balsams made of a blend of dozens of herbs). Five articles of Ussuriysky Balsam were given diplomas of the first and the second degrees at all-Russian competition of alcohol products.

One more economic feature of Ussuriysk is its wholesale trade. There are approximately 30 specialized and multipurpose trade bases many of which had developed contacts with foreign partners before the external economic policy was liberalized in Russia.

Among the city’s other enterprises that are worth mentioning are the Grado firm which annually produces up to 600,000 pairs of footwear, and the Locomotive Repairing Plant. The annual industrial output of Ussuriysk equals 8% of Krai’s production. Besides, the city is the crossing point of all major highways and railroads of Primorye.

Animal husbandry is well-developed in Ussuriysky District. Soybeans, buckwheat, wheat, barley, potatoes, and vegetables are grown here. Manufacture of furs is also developed in this District. Oktyabrsky JSC supplies mink fur-skins to the Russian market and abroad.

The joint Ussuriysky Administration has worked out a program of social and economic development in the city and the District. This presupposes an active exploration of the deposits of mineral sources found in the territory of the city and the district, namely, hard and brown coal, tuff, and clay. Foreign investors are welcome in the mining of these sedimentary rocks
Theaters

The Ussuriysk Drama Theater of the Far East Military District is located at #31 Sovyetskaya St. The theater was founded in 1937 and is one of the two theaters of the Russian Army (the other is the Central Theater of the Russian Army in Moscow). The theater maintains the military- patriotic tendency and realistic style.

The Ussuriysk Drama Theater is located at #33 Volodarskogo St. It was opened in 1937. The theater is of classical tendencies. Plays are staged both for adults and children. The hall can accommodate 428 people.

Geography

The city’s main Intercession Church. Built in 1914, it is one of the few churches in the region to have survived the revolution and Communist periods.

The downtown including Lenina, Chicherina, Krasnoznamyonnaya, and Ageyeva Streets is of historic value. The city’s oldest hotel (#28 Lenina St.) was constructed in 1880. #53 Lenina St. which houses the city’s oldest movie-theater Grand-Illyuzion was built in 1908.

On the central square there is a monument to the Red Guards and partisans, who died in the battles at Ussuriysk in June 1918. A monument to Lenin is on the Railway Station Square.

Steam locomotive YeL 629 is set on plinth as a memorial to 3 Bolshevik revolutionaries (Lazo, Lutsky and Sibirtsev) who were roasted alive by White Guards in its firebox in 1920.

The Intercession Church at #80A Chicherina St. was built in 1914. It is Primorsky Krai’s only religious building which has been kept without any reconstruction since 1917 and used for its original purpose.

Ussuriysk is very green because of many trees (such as poplars, elms, and jasmine, have been transplanted here from the taiga) and ranked third after Arsenyev and Vladivostok.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia : Non-specialized wholesale trade