Modern Kryvyi Rih is a big industrial city, it has 7 administrative areas: Dzerzhynskyi, Dovhintsvskyi, Zhovtnevyi, Inguletskyi, Saksaganskyi, Ternovskyi and Central - city.

Kryvyi Rih is the centre of Kryvyi Rih iron ore basin, the major raw-material base of metallurgy of Ukraine. The prospected resources of iron ores make over 32 billion tons, including deposits of rich martite ores - unique raw material for powder metallurgy and electronic industry.

Kryvyi Rih takes the third place in the world in extraction of iron ore, mining complex of Kryvyi Rih provides about 90 percents of total amounts of extraction of iron ore, manufacture of a concentrate and pellets in Ukraine.

The bowels of Kryvyi Rih are rich also in other minerals: deposits of granite, marble, kaolines, bauxites, brown coal, also they are rich in stocks of mineral raw for manufacture of paints, deposits of lime, sand, dolomite, mineral water, etc.

According to the results of drilling Kryvyi Rih superdeep prospecting hole (5432 meters), there are also deposits of tungsten, molybdenum, zinc, tin and other metals.

The economic potential of the city includes more than 6 thousand enterprises, from which 3,1 % are the state enterprises, 60,8 % - collective enterprises, 36,1 % - a private enterprises. The economic complex totals 90 large enterprises of different branches: mining, metallurgical, machine-building, building and construction materials production, chemical, printing, wood-working, light and food industry and others.

The major industry is iron and steel metallurgy. It is a powerful industrial complex which includes mining and metallurgical mills, four MCMs and one iron ore combine, two mine managements, three plants for mining equipment maintenance and other.

The prevailing range of products are iron ore, concentrates, agglomerates, pellets, pig-iron, steel, ready rolled products (round bars, angles, sheets and plates). Mining and metallurgical complex takes 93,4 % of total volume of industrial production in the city.

The only minium factory in the country produces iron minium which is of great demand in Ukraine and also abroad.

22 enterprises of industrial branch manufacture different goods.

11 specialized food processing enterprises and 62 private enterprises produce sausage products, mayonnaise, bread and bakery products, beer, soft drinks, vegetable oil, confectionery products and others.

The food-processing enterprises are in constant search of expansion of the sphere of the activity, maintenance of profitable work. The former barmy factory, and nowadays limited joint-stock company "The Hope ", is engaged in manufacture of sausages, bread, beer, mixed fodders, cattle fattening, pigs and others, except for the manufacture of yeast. Milk factories have mastered manufacture of bakery products, mayonnaises, mustard, smoked sausages, smoked and salty fish.

Much attention is given to the enterprises and to the development of original trade in the city. There are modern decorated shops which buyers visit with pleasure.

The building complex is represented by the building organizations of different specialization, the cement combine, ferro-concrete production factories, local construction materials factories.

Recent together with great industrial construction the erection of habitation and objects of social sphere took place. Due to it the small town has grown into a big modern city.

City passenger transport is an integral part of the complex of life-support of the city population, as the city has specificity of building, extent, placing of industrial zones.

The specialized passenger auto enterprises provide passenger transportations. 116 passenger bus routes function daily.

Electro transport of the city is 22 trolleybus routes the extent of which is 258,1 km, and 20 tram routes with the length of 88,1 km.

Since 1986 the population of city uses a high-speed tram. Its line length is 18 km.

The international airport functions in the city, it can receive modern planes and serves the international airlines. The Kryvyi Rih management of rail transportation is one of the largest among the railways in Ukraine.

The telephone system of the city includes 13 operators of communication of different patterns of ownership.

The wealth of the city is not only its powerful manufacturing-territorial complex, but also a significant network of education, culture, sports, health protection.

Today there are totaled 156 general educational establishments of all types, 149 preschool educational establishments, 4 boarding schools for children with disabilities, 4 children's houses, 3 orphanages and a teaching- and-educational social - rehabilitation complexes.

A great attention is given to the work with talented youth. 18 establishments of new type function in the city: lyceums, grammar schools, collegium, the specialized schools which use new pedagogical technologies.

Graduates of teaching-educational establishments of city adequately support its honour on Olympiads, competitions, defend research works in The Pupils' Academy of Sciences.

Educational activity take place at 15 high schools (technical schools, schools, colleges) of I - II level of accreditation, 4 high schools of III - IV level of accreditation of the state pattern of ownership, private educational establishment "The Institute of business administration " (III level of accreditation) and 12 structural divisions of high schools of the state and not state pattern of ownership. In total it trains about 42 thousand students in higher educational institutions of the city.

77 doctors and 563 candidates of sciences, 125 post-graduate students and scientists work in educational institutions and research establishments.

Scientists of the city develop a number of high technologies of extraction and enrichment of iron ores and worldly known devices, in particular for the definition of ores quality, automated management of productions.

Ultrasonic granulometer "Pulsar" developed by the scientists of KTU, is patented in the USA, France, Canada, Great Britain, Germany and other countries.

The device for the operative control of useful component in ores of ferrous metals PAKS-4 is patented in Ukraine and introduced at the enterprises of Kryvyi Rih.

The city became the centre of the international festivals like as "Horizons of Jazz", " Kryvyi Rih Cup", festivals "Jazz and Youth", "The Magic Flute", "Mine Ukraine", "Masks", "The Young Circus of Ukraine", "Silver Spring", "Spivogray", bard songs festival "The Terny String", a choral spiritual music.

233 club formations of a different structure exist in 19 Palaces of culture and clubs of the city, including 146 collectives of amateur performances. 38 collectives of amateur performances ranked as "national", 28 as "exemplary". Lately about 30 collectives of amateur performances became winners at international and Ukraine competitions of national creativity.

All conditions for occupations by physical culture and sports are created for the city dwellers. There are 17 stadiums, 12 swimming pools, a plenty of sports halls, shooting galleries, athletic fields, gymnastic small towns with the training equipment, the health centers. Over then 10 thousand sportsmen from 25 kinds of sports are engaged at 18 sports schools. Our sportsmen take prize-winning places at the most prestigious competitions: Olympic, Para-Olympic games, the championships, the World and Europe shooting championships, power-lifting, track and field athletics, sports acrobatics and others.

The city medical aid provide 48 treatment-and-prophylactic establishments, including 13 versatile hospitals, 5 polyclinics, 3 children's hospitals, 1 children's polyclinic, 2 maternity hospitals, the interregional centre of medical genetics and pregnancy diagnostics, children's orphanages, 5 clinics, 2 medical schools, station of the ambulance, 8 dentist polyclinics, the Centre "Health", the centre of preventive maintenance and struggle against AIDS, infectious hospital, station of blood transfusion, 4 children's sanatoria. Granting of medical aid in the city is carried in 72 specialities.

The city has more than 4000 multi-storey houses; 26,7 million sq. m motorways; 1,9 thousand km. networks of hot water supply; 1,3 thousand km. of gas mains; 1,6 thousand water supply systems in the structure of a housing and communal services.

The city is very green. There are 21 parks, 134 squares, 12 quays, 22 gardens which stretch at the area of 16 thousand acres.

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