Degtyarsk

Degtyarsk (Hung. Dégtyarvár) is a Uralican city, located in Southeast Uralica, about 10 km south of Revda and roughly 67km (by road) southwest of Yekaterinburg. It is the focal point of Highway UH-19C, which connects it both of the aforementioned cities via highways UH-2 and UH-19B respectively.

Founded in 1914 around a large pyrite deposit, Degtyarsk is very heavily industrial, and even considering the fact that Uralican industry has strict industrial cleanliness policies, the city is considered the most polluted of any Uralican city. Still, as environmental advisor Janne Hirvonen once said, "it is very clean compared to a great many industrial cities in this Robertian age." The primary industry is, of course, a combination of mining and metallurgy, of both iron and copper. There is also a large machinery-building industry and a modest-sized consumer goods manufacturing industry.

Culture
Degtyarsk has a surprisingly large Hungarian population, and in fact Hungarians outnumber Russians in Degtyarsk - only Tráty has a higher population percentage of Hungarians in all Uralica. Russians make up most of the balance, with some Udmurts and Bashkirs also living in the city.

Although the city is largely industrial, it does have its cultural selling points as well. There is a Hungarian Culture Centre in the north part of the city, which hosts a Hungarian folk-music annually (a practice that started in 2009). Also, it is somewhat infamous as the location where an American U2 spy plane was shot down on 1 May 1960 by anti-aircraft missiles, after which a Soviet MiG was erroneously shot as well. Jarkko Salomäki read the story in the history museum, and was awestruck by the self-sacrifice demonstrated by the pilot of that MiG.

"Declassified Soviet documents in that museum really shed light on what a hero Sergey Safronov really turned out to be in the end," he said. "Had he made any effort to save his own life, hundreds of May Day parade revelers would have been killed by the crashing jet. But instead, he sacrificed his own life to save the lives of many. If that ain't love, I don't know what is."

There was a statue erected of Safronov in 2000, but it was destroyed in the Cataclysm. It has been redone twice. The first reconstruction, in early 2007, was vandalised during Great War III as part of the "/b/ombing." The second one was offered protection by Uralica in early 2009, protection that became permanently nationalised when the area was annexed later in the year. In spite of his Communist affiliation, Safronov is regarded as a local hero, and there are many things in Degtyarsk named after him, including a branch of the public library, the main street of the city (Highway UH-19C is "Safronov Avenue" while passing through the city centre), an entire neighbourhood of the city, a secondary school, and the gymnasium complex of the local campus of the State College of Uralica.

Neighbourhoods and Suburbs

 * Safronovo
 * Revdinskaya Degtyarka
 * Izvjestovsky
 * Vjazovka