Plesetsk

Plesetsk (Finn. Pleseidä) is a Uralican city, which became the largest in Northwest Uralica after a merger with nearby town Mirnyy (which was actually the largest settlement in NWU at the time, even larger than the largest city, Onega). The first major stop on Highway UH-13, Plesetsk is a very industrial city, but the "Old Plesetsk" half of the city also possesses a decent-sized retail sector.

The most important industries in the area pertain to hi-tech and aerospace engineering, which is only natural, given that the Plesetsk Cosmodrome sits right in between Old Plesetsk and Mirnyy. Although the Mirnyy half was started to research and construct intercontinental ballistic missiles, there has been no real need for that in the Uralican era, and if the need should arise, such things would be done in a far more remote location. Instead, the old missile silos have been converted to more peaceful operations, such as the design of spacecraft and satellites. There are also modest forestry, ferroconcrete, road-building, machine-building, and consumer-goods manufacturing sectors in the city.

Culture
Overall, the demographic of the city is largely ethnic Russian, with the largest minorities being Finnish and Hungarian. Russian and Finnish are universally spoken and understood and almost everyone speaks English and Hungarian as well.

Plesetsk was founded in 1894 and Mirnyy in 1957, so both parts of the city are quite young. Still, there are a few cultural tourist spots. One of particular note, in the Old City, is Purim Square, constructed in early 2009. There are many Jews in Plesetsk, but a noteworthy thing about the Jewish holiday of Purim in Uralica is that Christians celebrate it as well. So it is only fitting that the town square is surrounded by an Orthodox temple, a Uralican Catholic cathedral, a large Uralican Evangelical Baptist church, and a Jewish synagogue, and on Purim, the Book of Esther is read aloud in the Square at night. Locally, it is said that the booing heard when Haman's name is mentioned is so loud that it can be heard as far away as Arkhangel'sk, although this may be somewhat exaggerated.

Otherwise, there are two art museums, including one for children's art, a multilingual cinema, a war museum in the Mirnyy end of town, and of course the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, which has designated viewing areas and a visitor centre. It was from "the 'Drome" that Uralica's first successful space rocket was launched, on 19 August 2010, carrying Uralica's first extraorbital satellite, Vapaus I, into space.

Neighbourhoods and Suburbs

 * Tsentralny
 * Stary Plesetsk
 * Yuzhnyy Mirnyy
 * Severnyy Mirnyy
 * Kosmodrom