Aramil is located on the eastern slope of the Middle Ural, in the south-east of Sverdlovsk oblast, at the confluence of the Armilka and Iset rivers.

The total area of the city is 2,182 sq. km. The population is about 20,000 people.

In the summer of 1675, the southern outpost appeared at the confluence of the Armilka and Iset rivers, on the border with the Bashkir territories.

The Cossack foreman Mikhaylo Sarapulets founded the village of Aramil. The new village of Aramil belonged to Tobolsk uezd (district). By 1711 the outpost grown into a fortress between the rivers. It consisted of two wooden buildings of prisons strengthened with towers, with an enormous mound and fences on the side of the rivers.

In 1702, the Babin brothers, miners from Aramil, found iron ore on the bank of the Reshotka river, and their countrymen found copper on the Chusovaya river. Soon after that, construction of the Uktussky, Yelizavetsky, Verh-Isetsky, Kamensky and Revdinsky factories began on the territory of Aramil.

Settlements gradually grew around the factories.

The Holy Trinity Church in Aramil

For this reason, Aramil is described as “the Mother of Ural cities”.

By the end of the XIXth century, there were 339 courtyards, and 1874 people lived in town. Later the Svyato-Troytsky Church was constructed. Also, there were a mill, a wad factory, and brick-works.

The cloth factory is unique in Ural, and one of the largest in Russia. During the Russian Revolution and the Civil War, the cloth factory came to a full decline. Manufacturing restarted in 1923.

In 1923, the first high school and an airclub opened in Аramil. A small airfield was under construction, and power lines and the telephone connection appeared. The population of the town grew to more than 5,000 people.

At the beginning of the World War II, a factory of artificial fiber was evacuated to Aramil from the European part of Russia. By 1943, it had shifted into producing gunpowder.

Many city residents went to the war.

The city is proud of its war hero, for example, pilot Rechkalov, who had worked before the War as an electrician at Aramil flour factory. During the War he brought down 61 German airplanes, and was decorated and awarded the highest military award in USSR “Hero of the Soviet Union”.

After the war the city continued to expand rapidly, and the present day city infrastructure gradually formed. Apartment houses, kindergartens, schools, the community center Palace of Culture, and a movie theatre were built.

In 1966, Aramil received the status of a city.

Annual motor show that attracts people from many cities of Russia

In July 2000, the city of Aramil celebrated its 325th anniversary.

The highway that connects Ekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk goes through the city. Aramil is famous for various air- and motor shows.

How to get to Aramil:

Buses № 170 from the South Bus Terminal
Any suburban electric train that goes daily from the Railway Station to Kamensk-Uralsky direction, stop “Aramil”

Aramil airshow