Shakhty Fiori Fiorista

The city of Shakhty was founded in 1805 on the banks of the rivers Atyukhta, Kadamivka, and Grushevka when deposits of coal were found in its vicinity. However, initially, it was the Grushevskoe settlement, which received the status of the city in 1867. And in 1921 he received his current name - Shakhty.undefined
The city developed rapidly, the coal mining industry required workers, who then settled in the city with their families. Soon Shakhty became a large industrial and cultural city of the Rostov region. In 90 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, coal ceased to be so necessary to the republic and the city faced hard times. However, the city's industry managed to redirect to the production of metal, the largest enterprise of the city - the Rostov Electrometallurgical Plant. It employs more than 30% of city residents.undefined
The population of the city by 2018 has grown to 235 thousand people.undefined
Emissions of industrial waste and waste dust have a negative impact on the ecology of the city.undefined
The climate of the Shakhty is quite moderate, the winter is warm, but the summer is hot and dry. It is mitigated by the presence of a large number of water resources and rivers in the vicinity of the city.undefined
Despite the not very good state of the city's ecology, beautiful flowers can be found in its environs: the water-lily pure white and the nymphatic flower of the sclerophyll have chosen a lake of the surroundings of the city. In the steppe zone and on the fringes of the forest, the spring tulip of Biberstein and Medunitsa is dark, the dwarf caress, the thin slaty, the long-winded perennial, the Lessing feather grass, the Sarept feather grass, the astragalus calyx, the astragalus bubbly, the astragalus fluffy, the altenia nitelistic, the katran rough, the conifers two-colony, , tamarix elegant and others. All of them are listed in the Red Book.undefined
You can admire the flowers in the city itself, its flower beds are richly decorated with petunias, salvias, begonias and tea roses.