abstract
| - Nizhny Tagil (Finn. Alatakila) is a Uralican city that sits right on Uralica's current eastern border. Having been annexed in September 2009, it is the largest Uralican centre that is not the home of the head Tribal Board office of any Uralic Tribe. It was granted its own unitary authority at the end of the month. Overall, it is Uralica's fifth-largest city, at the centre of Uralica's sixth-largest urban area. Nizhny Tagil's economy has been centred around the iron and steel industry for a period far predating Uralica's formation, but with the amounts of iron that have been found within Uralica recently, this has taken a huge jump. Engineering of various sorts, metalworking, chemistry, alloying, and production of metallic construction material are all very important in Nizhny Tagil. Many other manufacturing companies work within Nizhny Tagil as well - clothing and shoe production, hi-tech manufacturing, video game production, plastics production, pulp-and-paper milling, and toy-making are all of decent size. Retail is not as big proportionally as in Yekaterinburg, however the commercial sector does have one major shopping mall and several more minor shopping centres, plus the downtown core contains a decent financial presence, although this is overshadowed by most cities larger than it and then some. Hi-tech research and development (as opposed to hi-tech manufacturing) is massive within Nizhny Tagil, as UralTek, Uralica's largest hi-tech firm, has both its headquarters, and the headquarters of its computer engineering and gaming branches, in the city. In terms of transportation, Highway UH-6 runs through the city from north to south, connecting it to Yekaterinburg and various other cities. Highway UH-6B's western start point is also in the city.
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