On July 24, 1847, the first Mormon pioneers, led by Brigham Young, organized a settlement in the area of the Great Solar Lake, which later became a city.

In the 1840s-1850s he served as a transit point for migrants to California. With the development of the mining industry and the construction of railways in the 1860s and 1870s, Salt Lake City became a major shopping center in the West. In 1856 the city became the capital of the territory of Utah, from 1896 - the capital of the state. In 2002, the city became the venue of the XIX Winter Olympic Games.

Before the Mormon settlement of the Solar Lake valley, the indigenous tribes of Shoshona, Utah and Payuta lived there for millennia. At the time of Salt Lake City's founding, the valley was part of the Northwest Shoshonov tribe, despite their nomadic lifestyle and seasonal settlements close to the waters flowing from the Canyons mountains in the Salt Lake Valley. The United States regarded land as state property; the state has never recognized ownership of it by the Shoshonov tribe, nor has it revoked it by an official treaty. Jim Bridger is believed to have been the first American to explore Salt Lake in 1825, although prior to that, in northern Utah State, not far from the Utah Valley, other travelers visited (in 1776 expedition led by Dominguez — Escalante knew of no doubt Salt Lake Valley). American Army Officer John Fremont researched Great Salt Lake and Salt Lake Valley in 1843 and 1845. A group of unsuccessful explorers, Donner's company crossed the Great Salt Lake Valley in August 1846.

The official date for the establishment of the first permanent settlements in the valley is 24 July 1847, the day when the first group of adherents of the Church of the Movement of Latter-Day Saints arrived. They traveled outside the US borders to find a quiet place to live in peace in their faith, free from the violence and persecution they suffered in the eastern states. Arriving in the Salt Lake Valley, Church President Brigham Young delivered the historic phrase, "This is the place." Brigham Young claimed to have seen the valley in his vision shortly before his arrival. It turned out that the large valley was not inhabited by people. 4 days after arriving in Salt Lake Valley, Brigham Young pointed to the site of the Salt Lake Temple, which will later become Salt Lake City's most famous landmark and Mormon's "calling card."

The Salt Lake temple was built on a site that later became the Temple Square. Construction lasted 40 years: The construction began in 1853 and ended on 6 April 1893. The temple has become a symbol of the city and is its central part. In addition, Salt Lake Meridian begins in the southeastern part of the Temple Square and the numbering of all addresses in the Solar Lake Valley. The first Mormon pioneers founded a new state that was named Deseret and in 1849 filed an application for its official recognition. In 1850, the U.S. Congress rejected the settler's request, established the state's borders, significantly reducing them, named the Utah Territory, and designated the capital, the city of Fillmore. In 1858 the capital of the state became the city of Big Salt Lake City, the name of which was later reduced to Salt Lake City. The city's population continued to grow with converted Mormons and gold diggers from the Golden Fever, making it one of the most populated places in the Wild West.

In the summer of 1860, researcher, ethnologist and writer Richard Francis Burton traveled to Great Salt Lake City on a carriage to document local life, check the claims of Mormon opponents of his time, and get more information about the new faith. During his three weeks in office, he was granted unbelievable hospitality, including meetings with the Church's head, Brigham Young, and other living contemporaries of Joseph Smith. In the record of his trip, the researcher included sketches of early town buildings, descriptions of local terrain and agricultural production, comments on political and public order, essays, speeches and sermons by Brigham Young, Isaac Morley, George Washington Bradley and other prominent leaders, as well as photographs of daily life, in particular newspaper clippings and a ball menu organized for the higher society.

For a long time, Mormons and the federal government have had differences over polygamy. The climax came in 1857; after Brigham Young refused to step down as governor, President James Buchanan declared the region a rebellious region and the so-called Utah War began. The U.S. Army division led by Albert Sidney Johnston, who later became a general in the Confederate army, entered the city and found it completely empty. The division settled about 65 kilometers southwest of the city at Camp Floyd. Another military base, Fort Douglas, was established in 1862 to support the Union's loyal troops during the U.S. Civil War. In the 1880s, many local leaders were jailed in a territorial prison in the Sugar House area for violating laws that prohibit polygamous marriage. In 1890, the LDS Church banned polygamy by issuing "The Manifesto," which officially stated that members of the church were subject to the law of the country (which amounted to a ban on new polygamous marriages within the US and its territories, except in Mormon settlements in Canada and Mexico). This set the stage for the state to be officially recognized in 1896 and Salt Lake City to become its capital.

The first US transcontinental railway was completed in 1869 at the Promontory Summit north of Lake Great Salt Lake. In 1870, Transcontinental Railroad was connected to the city, and travel became less burdensome. The event was followed by mass migration of different ethnic groups. Chinese people (who built most of the Central Pacific railway) founded a thriving Chinatown in Salt Lake City, called "Plum Alley," which in the early 20th century became home to 1,800 Chinese. In 1952, businesses and houses were demolished and a parking lot was built at Plum Alley, near which a memorial plaque was installed to commemorate the former settlement. The growing mining industry also opened up economic prospects for immigrants. The once-prosperous Japanese neighborhood is reminiscent of a building in Salt Lake City that remains in the center, a Buddhist temple and a Japanese Christian chapel church. Ethnic groups from Europe and missionaries from the East Coast built the St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral in 1874, the Orthodox Church of Holy Trinity Cathedral in 1905 and the Catholic Cathedral of St. Mary Magdalene in 1909. Around the same time, Salt Lake City had a red-light district, which had 300 kurtisans at its peak but was closed in 1911.

Panorama of Temple Square, 1912

At the end of XIX - the beginning of XX century, an extensive system of tram lines was built all over the city - the first tram was launched in 1872, and electric traction appeared in 1889. As elsewhere in the country, cars replaced trams, and the last tram stopped running in 1945. Later, rail transport resumed after TRAX became operational in 1999. During the 20th century, the city's population gradually declined, as many people moved to suburban areas to the north and south of the city. Some of these suburbs were connected to the city, while nearby cities were united and expanded. As a result, the population of the nearby agglomeration is numerically larger than that of Salt Lake City itself. The main problem of modern official power was the struggle against the commercial decline of the central part of the city. From the 1960’s to the 1980’s, the city's population shrank significantly, though it grew slightly in the 1990’s. At present, the city's population is gradually declining again (although the area of agglomeration continues to grow), having decreased by about 2 per cent since 2000.

In recent years, the city has undergone significant demographic changes. Currently, about 22% of the Hispanic population and a large gay community live in the city. The city has a large number of Pacific Islanders, mostly from Samoa and Tonga, who make up about 2% of the total population of Salt Lake Valley.

In 1995, Salt Lake City was chosen as the capital of the 2002 Winter Olympics. The games were marred by numerous scandals. In 1998, there was a corruption scandal, based on allegations that there had been bribery of officials to ensure Salt Lake's victory in 2002. The games themselves were accompanied by scandals, including the review of judicial assessments and illegal use of doping. Despite all the controversy, the games were found financially successful, being one of the few profitable in recent history. Major capital construction projects were initiated in preparation for the games. Local motorways were expanded and renovated, and a light rail system was built. Currently, Olympic sports facilities are used for local, national and international sports competitions and for preparation of athletes for the Olympic Games. The number of tourists increased after the Olympic Games, although the city's commercial activity did not recover as quickly. Salt Lake City representatives expressed interest in considering the possibility of applying to host the 2022 Winter Olympics.

In 2007, 16 World Deaf Games were held at Salt Lake City and Park City sports facilities, and Rotary International selected the city to host its 2007 convention, which was the single most significant event in Salt Lake City during the 2002 Winter Olympics. In 2005 the Congress of U.S. The Volleyball Association had 39,500 participants.

Salt Lake City is located on a total area of 285.9 km², with an average altitude of 1320 m. In the city, the lowest point, 1,280 m, is the area near the Jordan River and the Great Solar Lake, and the highest point, 2,868 m, is Grandview Pick. The town is located in the northern part of the Salt Lake valley; from the northwest it is surrounded by the Great Solar Lake, and from the east and west it is surrounded by the high mountain ranges of Wasatch and Oquirrh, respectively. In the mountainous areas there is a large number of narrow canyons laid by rivers and glaciers, including City Creek, Emigration, Millcreek, and Parley’s, east of the city. The vast swampy and paved areas separate Salt Lake from the Great Salt Lake. The phenomenon known as the "stench of lakes" is the result of metabolic activity of bacteria living in the lake and lasts two to three times a year for several hours. The smell from the lake resembles the smell of stale eggs. The Jordan River, which flows through the whole city, originates in Utah Lake and flows into the Great Solar Lake.

The highest peak seen from Salt Lake City is Tuyn Peaks, which is 3,454 meters high. Tuyn Peaks is part of the Wasatch mountain range and is located southeast of Salt Lake City. The Wasatch Fault, which was created by the 7.5-magnitude earthquake, is passing along the western side of Wasatch. According to experts, in the case of a more powerful earthquake, the possibility of partial loss of soil strength with clay and sand structure, which could cause catastrophic destruction and subsequent frequent floods of various parts of the city from the Great Solar Lake, may be excluded. The second largest mountain range is Oquirrhs, with the highest point of the Flat Top Mountain, which is 3,237 m high. Traverse Mountains stretches 1830 m south and connects the Wasatch and Oquirrh mountain ranges. Salt Lake City offers views of the nearest mountain peaks with steep, almost vertical, slopes. The relief of the mountains was formed by strong ancient earthquakes. The maximum difference between the height of the peaks is 2,164 m due to the fact that Mount Tuine Peaks rises from the slope of the Salt Lake Valley. The Salt Lake valley was formed at the site of the ancient Bonneville Lake, which existed at the end of the last ice age. Some of the shorelines of Lake Bonneville are clearly visible in the foothills and inferiority of the surrounding mountains.

Salt Lake City panorama, June 2009

City plan

The city, like the whole district, is designed on the principle of rectangular planning. Most of the main streets are north to south and east to west. The beginning of the city plan grid is located at the east corner of Temple Square, where the temple of Salt-of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is located; the north-south axis is based on the Main Street, and the east-west axis is based on the South Temple Street. Addresses are a coordinate system (similar to latitude and longitude). The streets are wide enough. The reason for this was the order of Brigham Young, who wanted the streets to be able to unfold the buckle with the cart, and the cart did not use "words of abuse". Wide streets and their rectangular layout are typical of other cities where Mormon settlements were located in the era of the first settlers in the West.

Although the legend system may first confuse visitors, many believe that the city's rectangular layout is very convenient for orienting around the area. Some streets have other names, such as State Street, better known as 100 East. Other streets are named after famous people: The western part of 300 South is named Adam Galvez Street (after the local Marine Corps corporal who was killed in the battle), others are Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Cesar Chavez, and John Stockton. These names can only be seen on road signs, but they are not used when writing a postal address.

Salt Palace Meeting Hall

In the area of Avenues, the streets marked with the letters of the alphabet stretch from north to south, and the streets marked with numbers - from east to west. They are numbered 2.5 acres (1 hectare) a quarter, the size of the neighborhoods is smaller than the rest of the city.

The city began to be built according to a plan designed by Joseph Smith as an ideal city, the "Castle of Zion," which was used for almost all of the new Plat of the City of Zion. According to his plan, the city's neighborhoods should be located on 135 10-acre (4 hectares) plots. In the late nineteenth century, however, Salt Lake City began to become chaotic. This happened before the adoption of the Zoning Act in 1920, when LDS Church lost its influence in urban planning. Initially, there were large parks in 10 acres (4 hectares) of neighborhoods. Many were also supplied with irrigation canal water that was distributed around the same places where the boards and drainage ditches are currently laid. Water came from the City Creek mountain stream. Subsequent development of water resources took place using the more southern flows from the mountains to the eastern part of the city. Some of the old irrigation canals can still be seen in the eastern suburbs, or they are still marked on maps, although they have long been unused.

City districts

Salt Lake City has many informal neighborhoods. In the eastern part of the city, the property costs much more than in the western part. This is due to the construction of the railway in the west, and in the east there are beautiful picturesque views of the rocky mountains. Housing is more accessible in the West, which entails demographic differences. And the construction of the federal highway 15, which runs from north to south, further divided the city into eastern and western parts. Historically, the western part of the city was a place of residence for the working class, but recently many specialists are attracted to it by affordable real estate. For example, the small Marmalade District, which is located in the western part of Capitol Hill, which was considered to be insecure five years ago, has been substantially reconstructed and is now eclectic and rapidly gaining popularity. In the 1970s and 1980s, the western regions of Rose Park, Poplar Grove and Glendale were the hotbeds of criminal activity of various gangs.

Sugar House, in the south-eastern part of Salt Lake City, is considered progressive, until recently a small plot on the corner of streets 2100 South and 1100 East had local shops and shops with specialized goods. Shops were moved to new locations, and construction of a housing and office complex began on the vacated site. Developers say they would like to preserve the nature of the area, and after the completion of the complex, retailers can once again be placed on the street. Despite assurances, local residents are concerned that the area will lose its unique eclectic appearance, and they claim it will destroy one of the unique areas in the valley where local businesses are concentrated.

Northeast of the city center is The Avenues, an area that does not fall under the city's rectangular layout type with neighborhoods much smaller than in other parts of the city. Historical District, from South Temple North to 6th Avenue, is a dorm area with a large number of Victorian-style houses. Avenues has recently become a popular destination for lovers of cozy restaurants and shops, which open on the site of old shopping centers, including Hatch Family Chocolates, Avenues Bistro on Third and Jack Mormon Coffee. The streets of the Avenues area are located at the foot or directly on the slopes of the Watsatch Mountains. On the bottom of the slopes are the houses of earlier buildings. In the areas of Avenues, Federal Heights, east and north of Utah University, in the area of Foothill, south of the university, you can see protected residences, as well as mansions worth more than millions of dollars, and fabulous views of the valley. It is believed that the limit of dreams for many people is to buy real estate in this area.

Alongside large areas such as Sugar House and Downtown, Salt Lake City has several smaller districts that bear the names of nearby major road interchanges. For example, areas 9th and 9th (at the crossroads of 9 East and 9 South) and 15th & 15th (at the crossroads of 15 East and 15 South). They are pedestrian areas and have art galleries, clothing shops, salons, restaurants and cafes. In the summer of 2007, the 9th and 9th area was used to enclave sidewalks and streets, as well as the 9 Muse art composition, the work of an artist from Seattle, Wash., by Troy Pillow. the motives of the ancient Greek myth. This was made possible by partial financial assistance from Salt Lake City.

Most of the structures in the valley were erected before the outbreak of World War II, and only in some areas such as Federal Heights, East Bench, and in some places in the western areas of Rose Park and Glendale can be seen houses built after the 1970s.

Climate

Salt Lake City has a semi-desert climate (according to the Köppen, BSk climate classification) with four distinct seasons. Summer is long, hot and dry, winter is long, cold and snowy, and spring and autumn are short but pleasant transitions from one season to another. The average annual rainfall is 419 mm. Spring is the rainy season, while summer is dry. An average of 100 rainy days (12 days in June, 5 days in December) and 52 snow days (13 days most in January), 37 fog days (mostly in November-March, the largest number of days in January is 12) are observed during the year.

Winter (with an average daily air temperature of less than 0 °C) is averaged from November 10 to March 5, during which it is about 155 mm of rain. The largest amount of snow fell in the winter 1951/52, the total increase of snow cover height 298 cm and the smallest - 42 cm in 1933/34. The city's most snowy meteo-surveillance history was in January 1993, when the total increase in snow height was 128 cm.

The main source of rainfall in Salt Lake City is cyclones that originate in the Pacific Ocean and move along the high-rise frontal zone and its associated airflow from approximately October to the end of May. The cold fronts bring significant snow rainfall between September 17 and May 24. The Great Salt Lake, located near the city, can cause a snowball effect of a lake 6-8 times a year, resulting in severe snow storms. It is established that about 10% of the annual rainfall in the city is due to the effect of the lake.

In the summer, cyclonic activity weakens, the high-altitude frontal zone and the jet current shift to the more northern latitudes. The main source of rainfall is short-term (mainly daytime) storm rains, which are influenced by the humid monsoon coming from the Gulf of California in mid-and late summer. Although rainfall can be huge in some years, it is usually in some areas and rarely intense. The year is marked on average 36 days with a threat (between March and October), the largest number of them - in August (12 days).

The remains of tropical cyclones from the East Pacific may sometimes appear in the city during September-October. The consequence of the Hurricane Olivia residues was a record 179 mm of monthly rainfall in September 1982. The rainy year is 1983, when 616 mm of rain fell. This occurred in a very humid period, when 3 of the 4 most rainy years were recorded - 1982, 1983, and 1984. The driest period was four years earlier, in 1979, when 221 mm of rain was recorded.

Salt Lake City is experiencing severe temperature fluctuations between seasons. In summer, approximately 56 days a year, temperatures average 90°F (32.2°C), 23 days - about 95°F (35°C), and 5 days - 100°F (37.8°C). Temperatures, however, are relatively easy to move because the summer humidity is low during the daytime, e.g. 22% in July. Winters are quite cold, but strong frosts are rare. For 127 days the column of thermometer drops to or below zero, 26 days are above zero, and on average only 2.3 days when the temperature reaches 0 °F (-17.8 °C). The highest temperature of 107°F (42°C) was recorded twice, on 26 July 1960 and 13 July 2002, with the lowest temperature reaching -30°F (-34°C) on 9 February 1933.

In mid-winter, powerful anticyclones are located above the Great Basin, resulting in noticeable temperature inversions. Air stagnates and the valley is tightened by thick smog. This phenomenon can last from a few days to several weeks. As a result, there is a high level of air pollution (one of the worst in the US), which can reach a hazardous level. With the exception of rare snowfalls in winter, adverse weather conditions are very rare. However, on August 11, 1999, an F2 tornado struck the city center, claiming the lives of one person, injuring 60 people and damaging $170 million. In addition, melting waters flowing from nearby mountains and into mountain streams may cause local flooding in late spring and early summer, the most severe of which occurred in 1952 and 1983. In 1983, the City Creek mountain stream overflowed and urban engineers had to remake some streets in the city center, including the State Street into sewerage channels.

According to the 2010 census, the city is home to 75.1% of the white population, 2.7% of African-Americans, 1.2% of Native Americans and Alaska natives, 4.4% of Asians, 2.0% of Hawaii and other Pacific Islands , 10.7% of other races and 3.7% of mixed races. 22.3% of the total population is made up of Spaniards or Hispanics of any race. Historically, Salt Lake City is dominated by white people. Between 1860 and 1950, 99 per cent of the population was white. 37.0% of the population have a bachelor's degree or higher. 18.5% of the city's residents were born outside the country and 1.1% were born to Puerto Ricans or other US-owned islands, and were born abroad to American parents. 27.0% of the population speak other languages at home. According to the 2010 census, there are 186,440 people (compared with 181,743 in 2000), 75,177 families, of whom 57,543 live in the city. This represents 6.75% of Utah's population, 18.11% of Salt Lake District, and 16.58% of the population living in Salt Lake's new agglomeration. The city is 14.2% of the total area of Salt Lake. Salt Lake City has many more people than agglomeration, with a population density of 1,688.77 people per square mile (1,049.36 people per square kilometer). There are 80,724 dwelling units in the city with an average density of 731.2 per square mile (454.35 per square kilometer).

In 2000, Salt Lake City-Ogden, which includes Salt Lake, Davis, and Weber, had a population of 1,333,914, a 24.4% increase compared to 10 72,227 people in 1990. After the 2000 census, the U.S. Census Bureau included Salt Lake City in Summit and Tooele, but excluded Davis and Weber, singling them out as a separate agglomeration of Ogden, Clearfield. Salt Lake City — Ogden — Clearfield is a statistical unit, and as of 1 July 2008, there were 2,094,035 people living in the area, together with the Provo-Ore agglomeration in the south.

Of the 75,177 households, 27.0 per cent live with children under 18 years of age, 41.1 per cent are married couples, 10.2 per cent are single women and 44.3 per cent are other types of household. Of the 75,177 families, 3,904 were married in civil marriage: 3047 are heterosexuals, 458 same sex male and 399 same sex female couples. In 33.2% of households there are single people, and in 9.7% there are single people aged 65 and over. The average household size was 2.48 persons, the average family size was 3.24.

Age structure of population (2000 census):

• 23.6% under the age of 18,
• 15.2% - 18-24 years,
• 33.4% - 25-44 years,
• 16.7% - 45-64 years,
• 11.0% are 65 years and older.

The average age of residents was 30 years. For every 100 women there are 102.6 men. For every 100 women aged 18 and over, there are 101.2 men. The average household income in the city is $36,944 and the average household income is $45,140. Men on average earn 31,511 dollars, and women's income is 26,403 dollars. The city's per capita income is 20,752 dollars. 15.3% of the total population and 10.4% of the total number of families live below the poverty line: 18.7% of the total population under 18 years of age and 8.5% of the population over 65 years of age are below the poverty line.

Because of the large number of large families in the region and the relatively low percentage of empty apartments, the prices for the purchase and maintenance of housing in the Wasatch Front municipal district are high. As a result, one in six people in the city is below the poverty line. Fewer than half of the population of Salt Lake City are followers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS). In Utah's rural regions, this percentage is much higher; In total, about 62% of the state's population is LDS followers. Rose Park and Glendale are mostly Hispanic-speaking, with about 60% of schoolchildren enrolled in public schools being Hispanic. Centro Civico Mexicano is the main cultural and social center of the Latin American community, with 300,000 members in the Wasatch Front municipal district. In 2006, Mexican President Vicente Fox began his working visit to America with a visit to Salt Lake City. Immigrants from Bosnia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Bantu, and Myanmar have settled in the city under state immigration programs. A large community of Pacific Islanders, mostly Samoans and Tongans, is located in the Rose Park, Glendale and Poplar Grove areas. Most of the ethnic Pacific Islanders are LDS members, although Salt Lake City is home to various Samoan and Tunganese religious organizations, including Samoan Congregational, Tongan Wesleyan Methodist, and Roman Catholic. Not far from Salt Lake City, new immigrant communities have emerged, including Nepali residents and Kareni refugees from Myanmar (formerly Burma). Of America's 51 cities, Salt Lake City is one of the 10 cities that "are loyal to sex minorities." There is a large gay community in the city, characterized by enterprise, organization and political support. Leaders of Utah's Diocese Episcopal Church, the leaders of the state's largest Jewish congregation, Salt Lake Kol Ami, and the city's three elected representatives recognize their homosexual orientation. This development has drawn mixed reactions from conservative officials elsewhere in the state. According to a study conducted by UCLA University in 2006, 7.6% of the city's population, or about 14,000 residents, openly acknowledge their homosexuality or bisexuality, compared to 3.7% or 60,00 people in general.

In 2007, Forbes magazine recognized Salt Lake City as America's most vain city. The main criteria were the number of plastic surgeons per 100,000 inhabitants and the current cost of cosmetics, which exceeded the cost in similar cities. However, there are reasons to believe that this data shows the number of plastic surgeons in the city, whose clients include residents of the entire agglomeration. According to Forbes, Salt Lake City ranked eighth in the list of the most stressful cities in America in 2007. For comparison, according to a 2010 study by Portfolio.com and bizjournals, Salt Lake City is the least stressful city in the United States. In 2008, Men's Health and Women's Health magazines recognized Salt Lake City as the best city for women in terms of health. 38 different factors were taken as the basis, including the level of cancer, air quality and the number of visitors to the gyms.

Recreational tourism sector in the mountains of Watsatch is one of the main employers of the region

Salt Lake City's modern economy is largely service-oriented. In the past, the nearby steel, mining, rail and oil refineries, including the Silver King Coalition Mines, Geneva Steel, Bingham Canyon Mine, were the main sources of revenue, but nowadays they are government and municipal services, commercial and transport enterprises, and companies providing and providing professional services. business services. Because the city is located in the center of the western part of the United States, it has been named "The Crossroads of the West." During the daytime, the population of Salt Lake City increases to more than 315,000 people, excluding tourists and students.

A high percentage of the population is employed in local and federal government and state government. Trade, transport and municipal enterprises are large employers, among them the western division of the North American company Delta Air Lines, one of the main transport hubs of which is Salt Lake City International Airport. Professional, business, and health service providers, including Intermountain Health Care, the largest health facility in the western U.S. Intermountain District, play an important role in job creation. Among the big employers are Utah University, Sinclair Oil Corporation and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS). In addition to the main offices of the LDS Church, Salt Lake City also has offices belonging to the Church of the commercial organization Deseret Management Corporation, which includes several subsidiaries.

Salt Lake City has the headquarters of several major companies, including Huntsman Corporation (listed as a Fortune 500), Zions Bancorporation and Questar Corporation, listed as Fortune 1000, AlphaGraphics, Sinclair Oil Corporation Smith’s Food and Drug (owned by the national supermarket chain Kroger), MonaVie, Myriad Genetics, and Vehix.com. Nearby cities, which are part of Salt Lake City, are the headquarters of Arctic Circle Restaurants, FranklinCovey, and Overstock.com. In the past American Stores, Skaggs Companies and one of the first universal shops in the country ZCMI were located on the territory of the agglomeration. Macy’s, Inc. is the current owner of the store, and the rest of ZCMI’s shopping mall network is under the Macy’s brand. Large regional offices of high-tech companies, including Adobe, eBay, Unisys, Siebel, Micron, L-3 Communications, Telarus, and 3M are located near the city.

The city has a developed tourism sector, there are companies that specialize in business conferences and business meetings, and there are large information and reference services that provide services throughout the district. Since the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, the number of tourists has increased. Many hotels and restaurants were built in the city for this event. After the modern Salt Palace business center was commissioned in the 1990s, the number of companies working in the sphere of conference services increased. The center hosts numerous specialized exhibitions and conferences, including the annual International Trade Exhibition of Sports and Leisure and the annual technical conference of BrainShare, sponsored by Novell.

In 2006, the largest potato farmer in Idaho, United Potato Consumers of America, moved the company's headquarters to Salt Lake City, on the grounds that the city has a large international airport, which is the 22nd largest airport in the world by number of the busiest airports in the world freight and passenger transport. This statement led some Idaho legislators to propose a change in the license plate number of the state's vehicles, which currently bear the phrase "Famous Potato".

In 2005, the central part of the city witnessed a significant increase in the population. The number of dwellings in the central business of the city has increased by 80 per cent since 1995 and is projected to nearly double over the next ten years. In the city there is a building of the residential complex City Creek, which is held with the participation of the church LDS. After the construction of the first stage, which includes the construction of the 126-meter residential complex City Creek, 300 more apartments will appear in the city. Allen Millo Associates has developed two projects that are currently under construction, and two are already being designed. All 200 apartments were sold before the construction of the seven-story residential complex planned by Wood Property. Following the recent completion of the Northgate Apartments, a 12-story residential building in the Gateway area and two houses near it, the Liberty Metro apartments multi-story house near Library Square, it is planned to build a residential complex near Trolley Square.

The level of free office space in the city center is minimal. As a result, two large office buildings are currently under construction: an eight-story building in the Gateway District area, and a 22-story building on the Main Street. In addition, Walker Bank Building, a historic building, is being reconstructed to allow it to become a building with class A offices in the future. The development of the Gateway District, the construction of light rail lines and the planned development of urban electricity lines contributed to the revival of the city center.

The District and Salt Lake City Department Building, the location of the governing bodies since 1894. The building was also used to house the Utah state government until the Utah Capitol was brought into operation on October 9, 1916

Since 1979, Salt Lake City has been characterized by a non-party form of government, the mayor-council. The mayor and seven council members are elected for a four-year term. The mayoral and three council members are elected in one year. The remaining four members of the council are elected two years after the mayor's election. The seats on the board are determined on the principle of territorial distribution of the population. Each member of the council represents approximately 26,000 inhabitants. The authorities are not limited in their terms of office.

The last elections took place in November 2011. Luke Garrott was elected for a second term, while Charlie Luke and Kyla LaMalfa scored an unexpected victory over the current members of the J Council. T. Martin and Van Turner. Soren Simonsen was elected Chairman of the Board in January 2012. Elections take place in odd years. The years in the table refer to the next electoral cycle, the winning candidate will take office in January of the following year. In Salt Lake City, two open lesbians and an open homosexual were elected, representing the city in the state's legislature and in the Senate, respectively.

The secularism issue was acute when the Liberal Party and the People's Party of Utah dominated local political life, with many candidates serving as bishops from LDS Church. This tension has not abated, owing to the religious campaign Bridging the Religious Divide. The campaign was initiated after local residents of the city complained that the political Beaumond of Utah was unfair to non-LDS residents while favoring members of the organization. This has led the city's LDS supporters to feel the growing anti-Mormon sentiment in the city's political life.

The city has a large number of liberal Democratic Party supporters. This is at odds with political views in most of Utah, where conservative sentiment is dominant and most citizens are Republican. There are several non-governmental research centers and initiative groups in the city, including the conservative-minded Sutherland Institute think tank, the LGBTI advocacy group, Equality Utah, and the Envision Utah Living Improvement Group. During the 2002 Winter Olympics, Salt Lake City was visited by numerous high-ranking foreign officials, in 2006, the President of Mexico began his state visit to the United States by visiting the city, and the Israeli ambassador to the United States opened a cultural center in Salt Lake City. President George W. Bush visited the city in 2005 and 2006 to attend a national veterans' conference, both of which sparked protests from then-mayor Rocky Anderson. In 2005, political leaders such as Howard Dean and Harry Reid made speeches in the city.

Salt Lake City Public Library. The American Library Association named her the best in the United States in 2006

In 1847, Jane Dillworth spent her first class in her tent for the children of the first LDS settlers. At the end of the 19th century, there was disagreement over the education of children living in the area. LDS supporters and opponents could not agree on the scope of the Church's influence on school education. Nowadays, the majority of middle- and senior-school-aged children (grades 9 to 12) who are members of the Church attend classes on religion, called "seminaries." Students can leave public schools at any time of the day to attend seminaries. Seminaries are usually located in buildings belonging to the Church, either adjacent to or close to the school.

Because of the high birth rate and the large number of students in the class, Utah state authorities spend the least on a single student in all states, but at the same time spend the most on per capita terms, except in Alaska state. Money is always scarce, so many businesses donate money to maintain schools. Charitable foundations have been established in several districts to raise money. More recently, money has been allocated for the reconstruction of more than half of primary schools and one secondary school in the Salt Lake City School District, an area where most students living in the city study. The district has 23 K-6 primary schools (up to grade 6), five secondary schools for students in grades 7-8, three high schools for students in grades 9-12 (Highland, East and West, in the past also located South High, which is now part of the South City campus, in the Salt Lake Community ), as well as an alternative high school (Horizonte). In addition, the Highland School has recently hosted the Salt Lake School for the Performing Arts (SPA). A large number of Catholic schools, including Judge Memorial High School, can also be found in the city. Rowland Hall-St. Mark's School, founded in 1867 by Bishop Daniel Tuttle Church, is the best private school in the region.

The Salt Lake City Public Library system includes a central library building and five offices throughout the city. The central library, designed by the famous architect Moshe Safdie, was opened in 2003. In 2006, Salt Lake City Public Library was awarded the title "Best Library of the Year" by the American Library Association.

Higher education in Salt Lake City is available at Utah University, Westminster College, Salt Lake Community College, Stevens-Henager College, Eagle Gate College, The Art Institute of Salt Lake City and LDS Business College. The city has opened general education centers from Utah University and Brigham Young University (one of the largest private universities in the United States). The city also has a large number of vocational schools, such as Healing Mountain Massage School and Utah College of Massage Therapy. Utah University is famous for its research and medical programs. The University is one of four educational institutions that in 1969 were connected to the ARPANET packet network, considered the forerunner of the Internet, and is the place where the first artificial heart was developed in 1981.

Museums and fine arts

The former Denver and Rio Grande Western Depot station now houses the Utah Historical Society, the State Archive and the Farmer Market

There are several museums in Salt Lake City. Near Temple Square is Church History Museum, managed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the museum contains collections of artifacts, documents, works of art, photographs, tools, clothing and furniture that reflect the nearly two-century history of the LDS Church. In the western part of Temple Square, near the Gateway District, is Clark Planetarium, where you can find a movie theater that shows movies in the format of IMAX, Discovery Gateway, and a museum for children. The Utah Museum of Fine Arts and Natural History Museum of Utah is a campus of the University of Utah. The Utah State Historical Society, the Memorial Museum of Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Fort Douglas Military Museum, Social Hall Heritage Museum, and the Leonardo Museum of Modern Art, Science and Technology also operate in the city.

Salt Lake City also has several classic cinemas, including the Tower Theatre and the currently closed Trolley Corners and Villa Theatre.

On December 5, 2007, the Salt Lake Chamber and Downtown Alliance announced that two blocks in the city center, south of the City Creek Center's designed residential complex, are planned for a new center for the development of fine arts. It is planned to restore two theaters located in the area, build a new theater with 2,400 seats and allocate more space for galleries and exhibitions of artists. The opening of new facilities should coincide with the opening of the City Creek Center array in 2011. The location of the new theater, which will cost $81.5 million to build, has been officially announced and fundraising has begun to secure funding for the project. At the same time, plans to build the theater have been criticized, especially by nearby small theaters, which show performances by touring experimental avant-garde troupes. They argue that such a theater is impossible to maintain and its opening would harm their activities.

Performing arts

Salt Lake City has many venues where both professional and amateur theaters perform. In the historic building of the Capitol Theatre, numerous touring theater groups show Broadway and experimental productions. Among the local professional actors are Pioneer Theatre Company, Salt Lake Acting Company, and Plan-B Theatre Company, the only of its kind in the state of Utah whose repertoire consists entirely of plays by local playwrights. Off-Broadway Theatre, located in the historic Clift Building for Salt Lake City, offers comedy shows and the longest in Utah improvised Laughing Stock comedy production. Salt Lake City features the Mormon Skinia Choir, founded in 1847. Each week, the choir performs on the radio and television program Music and the Spoken Word. This program has been continuously aired for many years, thus being the longest project in the history of world radio broadcasting. Salt Lake City also hosts the Utah Symphony Orchestra, which was founded in 1940 by Maurice Abravanel, and most recently the band has gained great fame. At present the conductor of the orchestra is Thierry Fischer. Initially, the orchestra performed at Salt Lake Tabernacle, but since 1979 it has been constantly rehearsing and giving its concerts at Abravanel Hall, located in the western part of the city center. The city has The Salt Lake Children’s Choir, a renowned children’s choir. The choir was organized in 1979, now it is acting under the leadership of Ralph B. Woodward. The University of Utah prepares first-class professionals in the specialty "classical dance (ballet)" and "modern dance". The professional dance groups in the city include Ballet West, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company (in the 2008/2009 season celebrated its 45th anniversary) and the Repertory Dance Theatre. Both bands, RWDC and RDT, rehearse and perform at Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center.

Music

The local music industry is dominated by the following groups: blues, rock and roll, punk, datkor, horrorkor and indie. Among popular groups and musicians who either started their musical career in the Wasatch Front agglomeration, or grew up in the area, and this affected their creativity, it should be noted: Iceburn, The Almost, The Brobecks, Meg and Dia, Royal Bliss, Shedaisy, The Summer Obsession, and The Used. Gaza and Bird Eater are represented by underground metal in Salt Lake City. In 2004, more than 200 groups provided their compositions for a collection initiated by the local music magazine SLUG Magazine. Of all the songs presented, only 59 were selected, showing different directions in music, namely hip-hop, jazz, jazz-fusion, punk and different styles of rock-n-roll.

Every summer, the Twilight Concert Festival takes place in Salt Lake City. This festival has been part of the musical life of the city for more than 23 years. In 2010, about 40,000 people attended the concert at Pioneer Park Central Park.

Since 1976, the city has hosted the Gina Bahauer International Pianist Competition.

Cinema and TV

Salt Lake City's agglomeration produced a huge number of films, promotional and musical clips and TV shows, including: Punk from Salt Lake City, Angel Touch, Widow Love, Great Love, Bonneville, Dawn of the Dead, drive me crazy, Hard-On,Bad,Classic Mut zickle, class musical 2: Kanikuli, Classic musical 3: Graduate, Blonde in Law 2, Unattended Children, Stupid and more stupid, Confrontation, Halloween 4: Michael Myers' Return, Halloween 5: Michael Mayers Revenge, Halloween 6: Michael Myers Curse, Independence Day, Duel, Brown Rabbit, Fastest "Indian", The Way of Arms, Carnival Showers, Amazing Race 8, Denizen, The Po stal Service’s "Such Great Heights", Pirates of the Caribbean Sea: On the edge of the world, the square.

Major events

Olympic flame at Rice Eckles stadium during the 2002 Winter Olympic Games

Although the influence of the Church of the Latter-Day Saints in the city is still great, its cultural and religious life is diverse. The city hosts a huge number of cultural events. Thanks to the joint efforts of the volunteer committee, labor collectives and local NGOs, the Utah Pride Festival takes place every June in Salt Lake City. Since 1983, the annual small and mostly secret meetings have evolved into a three-day festival, where local celebrities perform. Not long ago, 20,000 people attended the festival, including members of the LGBT community and their supporters among relatives, friends, neighbors and colleagues. The Utah Pride Festival is a project of the local public organization Utah Pride Center. The organization's main activities are to support, educate and advocate for the rights and interests of homosexuals, lesbians, bisexuals, transgender people, as well as free-minded people and their supporters, through a variety of programs, services and resources.

On July 24, the city's residents celebrate the state's most important holiday, Pioneer Day, the date of the first group of Mormon pioneers in Salt Lake Valley. Every year, a variety of events take place during the week, including a children's parade, a horse parade, Days of '47 Parade (one of the largest parades in the United States), a rodeo and a grand fireworks show at Liberty Park. On New Year's Eve, the Rice Eckles stadium, which is part of Utah University, hosts a large-scale festivities and events for the whole family. At midnight, colorful fireworks illuminate the sky above the city. On this day it is possible to officially sell and launch fireworks.

As a sign of respect for the cultural and historical values of Greeks living in the state of Utah, a Greek festival takes place every year in the first weekend after Labor Day. The three-day program of the festival includes performances by folk musicians and dance groups, excursions through the temple, a trade fair for artisans and tasting of traditional dishes. The event takes place in the central part of the city at the Greek Orthodox Church and is usually attended by between 35,000 and 50,000 people.

Since 1977, the city has hosted the annual Utah Arts Festival, which usually attracts about 80,000 people. Art lovers can visit 130 different exhibition stands and listen to music at five concert venues.

Salt Lake City is hosting part of the Sundance Film Festival. Every year, prominent cultural figures, film actors, celebrities and thousands of film lovers come to the city to watch the program of the largest independent film festival in the United States. The festival headquarters is located in the nearby town of Park City.

Salt Lake City Marathon has been held in Salt Lake City since 2004. In 2006, the Real (Madrid) football team and many of America's best cyclists participated in the event.

In recent years, local events have been organized in the city, including the most famous Friday Night Flicks, free film screenings in city parks and study fitness programs within the framework of the Salt Lake City Gets Fit sporting event, which is supported by the mayor.

Salt Lake City hosted the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. At the time of the competition, the city was the most populated locality that hosted the Winter Olympic Games. This event brought Salt Lake City to the international stage, and many believe that these games have become the most successful Winter Olympics ever.

In February 2002, the Italian city of Turin was named the Olympic sister city of Salt Lake City, and in October 2003 it was named as a friendly city. On January 13, 2007, a contract was signed in which Salt Lake City and Turin officially became the Olympic sister cities.

Every third Friday of the month you can take a free "walk through galleries" in Salt Lake City. At this time, many galleries and other establishments in the city center work late so that art lovers can attend various exhibitions after work. Sometimes street artists, actors and musicians take part in these events.

Media

Salt Lake City has a wide range of media outlets. The offices of most major television and radio stations are within or near the city. Salt Lake City is the 30th largest broadcast market and the 31st broadcast market in the United States. Two major daily newspapers, The Salt Lake Tribune and the Deseret Morning News, are featured in the press. The local market includes specialized publications such as In Utah This Week, Salt Lake City Weekly, Nuestro Mundo, a Spanish-language newspaper, QSaltLake, and The Pillar for the LGBT community. Other Spanish-language newspapers include El Estandar, Ahora Utah, Amigo Hispano (Internet only) and El Observador de Utah, which is delivered free of charge to the home. Several local magazines are published in the city, including Wasatch Journal (a quarterly magazine that covers events in the cultural and sports life of Utah), Utah Homes & Garden, Salt Lake Magazine (a bi-monthly magazine on various aspects of life) ), CATALYST Magazine (a monthly publication on environment, health, visual art and politics) and SLUG Magazine, a music magazine that covers alternative music streams and underground.

KTVX is the first television channel in Utah, the first to be broadcast in 1947 using experimental call W6SIX. KTVX is the oldest channel in the Mountain Time Zone and the third oldest channel west of the Mississippi River. He is currently a branch of the ABC media corporation. The studios of KSL-TV, which is a part of NBC, are located in the city center in Broadcast House, which is part of the Triad Center's office buildings complex. KSL is owned by Deseret Media Companies, which in turn belongs to the LDS Church. The CBS branch in Salt Lake City is KUTV. KSTU operates as a regional branch of Fox Corporation. KUCW is a branch of CW and a duopolist with the KTVX channel. Independent TV channel KJZZ-TV belongs to Larry Miller family, the late owner of the Utah Jazz basketball team.

Due to the fact that television and radio companies are used in more territory (all over Utah, some western areas of Wyoming, southern Idaho, parts of Montana and eastern Nevada), the income from ratings is generally higher than in similar cities. Some of Salt Lake City's radios broadcast via radio transponder systems throughout the state.

In Salt Lake City there was a situation of saturation of the FM-band broadcasting market, as a result, if you scroll the FM tuner, in two frequencies you will surely get to any radio station. Several companies, including Millcreek Broadcasting and Simmons Media, have installed antennas on Humpy Peak, part of the Mount Winta mountain range, east of the city. Due to these radio masts, frequencies intended for use in nearby mountain settlements are enhanced by the use of low-power FM transmitters installed along the Wasatch Front.

Salt Lake City Church

Salt Lake City is home to the main administrative and office buildings of the Mormon Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, many of which are open to visit. The city's central attraction is Temple Square, which houses the Salt Lake City Temple (forbidden to the general public) and information centers that are open to visitors. The square also houses the historic building of Skinia, where the world-famous Chorus of Mormon Skinia is performing. The modern Conference Center of the Church is located across the street to the server. The Family History Library, home to the largest collection of genealogical documents, is located east of Temple Square. It belongs to the SPD Church and is free of charge to the public. Near Temple Square is the Eagle Gate monument and the Brigham Young monument.

In 2004, the main building of the public library received the Institute Honor Award for Architecture award from the American Institute of Architecture. The building has a unique architectural style. The roof of the library features a viewing area with beautiful views of Salt Lake Valley. The marble floors and the Utah Capitol dome are identical to those in the building where the U.S. Congress sits. Other famous historical buildings include Thomas Kearns (now Governor House), City and County Building, built in 1894, Kearns Building on Main Street, St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral, built in 1874, and Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Madeleine, built in 1909.

This is the Place

Near the mouth of Emigration Canyon is This Is The Place Heritage Park, which is the site of the 19th-century order of life of the first settlers of the LDS Church, as well as a monument of the same name. There is Hogle Zoo across the road from the park. Liberty Park's largest public park, with a territory of more than 100 acres (0.40 km²), features a lake with an island in the middle and a Tracy Aviary Nature Reserve. Its main inhabitants are the various kinds of birds, living on both the will and in special enclosures. The Red Butte Garden and Arboretum botanical garden is located at the foot of the mountains and is the venue for various exhibitions and music concerts. Jordan Park has International Peace Gardens botanical gardens. The Bonneville Shoreline Trail, popular for hikers and cyclists, runs along the foot of the Wasatch Front at a distance of about 90 miles.

Near the Rice-Eccles Stadium is Olympic Cauldron Park, where you will find the Olympic Fire monument, the visitor center and the Hoberman Arch arch. The Gateway District has an Olympic Legacy Plaza, where you can see a dancing music fountain and a stone with the names of 30,000 Olympic volunteers. Not far from the city Park City is Utah Olympic Park, where in 2002 were held Olympic competitions on jumping from a trampoline, bobsled, sandy sports and skeleton. Nowadays in this park all year round trainings and various competitions take place. Visitors can watch the events and even go for a bobsled ride. The Utah Olympic Oval Arena is located in Kearns. It was specially built to hold speed skating competitions and is now open to visitors. Soldier Hollow Ski Resort is another popular Olympic destination, offering cross-country skiing. It is located southeast of Salt Lake City near Heber City.

The area around Salt Lake City is home to several world-class winter and summer resorts: Snowbird, Alta, Brighton, Solitude, Park City Mountain Resort, and Deer Valley. Millions of tourists come here every year and enjoy their active holidays all year round. Shopping enthusiasts will be delighted by several large shopping centers. The Trolley Square Shopping Complex is a huge number of both closed and open outlets, including small art shops, cozy cafes and shops of large national trading networks. The shops are located in buildings, which are a restored tram park with cobblestone streets. The open-air shopping complex Gateway District features numerous national restaurants, clothing shops, Clark Planetarium Cinema, the Discovery Gateway Children's Museum, The Depot Concert Platform and Olympic Legacy Plaza Street. In the modern City Creek Center there are elite boutiques with exclusive goods, which can be purchased only here and nowhere else in the state of Utah.

Gateway District

On October 3, 2006, the LDS Church, which was the owner of the ZCMI Center Mall and Crossroads Mall shopping centers located on the Main Street, announced its plans. In order to carry out the reconstruction of the City Creek Center, a project worth 1.5 billion dollars, it was necessary to demolish shopping centers, skyscrapers and other buildings. It was planned to build several residential buildings and office complexes (one of which is the third highest building in Utah) around the open shopping center, inside which it was planned to lay a stream, fountain and other cultural and recreational facilities The opening of the complex took place on March 22, 2012. Sugar House has a small shopping street and several old parks. Sugar House Park, the second largest city park, often hosts a variety of events, including a salute dedicated to America's Independence Day.

Other attractions in or around the city include Golden Spike National Historic Site, Lagoon Amusement Park, Great Salt Lake, Bonneville Salt F salt mines, and the Golden Spike National Historic Site lats, the Gardner Historic Village, one of the largest dinosaur museums in the United States, at the Thanksgiving Point museum complex in Lehi, and one of the world's largest artificial quarries at the Bingham Canyon Mine.

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1853-1893) and House of Prayer (1867), "Bee House", Temple Square, "Lion House", sports-endings Salt Palace, State Capitol, Solar Lake Art Center, Southeastern Temple (1909), one of the largest Krossrouds Plaza shopping centers in the United States. In the suburbs of ski resorts, salt fields of Lake Bonneville.

Winter sports such as skiing and snowboarding are very popular in the Wasatch Mountains east of Salt Lake City. 8 ski resorts are located 80 km from the city. Alta, Brighton, Solitude and Snowbird Resorts are located in the southeast in the mountains of Watsatch, while the other three resorts are located near the city of Park City. The popularity of ski resorts has grown by almost 29% since the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. Hiking, hiking, mountaineering, mountain biking and other sports are very popular in the mountain areas in summer. The small water bodies and rivers located in the mountains of Watsatch are popular places for lovers of boat trips, fishing and other water sports.

Sports

Salt Lake City is home to the Utah Jazz professional basketball team, which is a member of the National Basketball Association (NBA). In 1979 the team moved to the city from New Orleans, home games are held on the arena "Energy Solutions Arena". Of the last 25 seasons, the team has been in the playoffs 22 times, making it considered one of the NBA's most successful, with the only thing left to do for the players to be champions. From 1970 to 1975, Salt Lake City was home to the Utah Stars professional basketball team, which works for the American Basketball Association (ABA). They won one championship in the city (in 1971) and had one of the strongest support among the ABA league teams, but a few months before the ABA merger with the NBA the team ceased to exist to avoid takeover of the NBA league. Stars’ successes may have been one of the main reasons why the Jazz team moved to Salt Lake City in 1979.

Spring Mobile Ballpark, Salt Lake Beaiz Home Arena

Energy Solves Arena, formerly known as Delta Center, has been the home arena of Utah Jazz since 1991

The Real Salt Lake team in Major League Soccer was created in 2005. At first, home games took place at the Rice-Eccles Stadium, which belongs to Utah University, until the construction of the Rio Tinto Stedium stadium, a football-friendly stadium, was completed in the Sandy area in 2008. Construction lasted more than two years and was accompanied by financial problems and certain difficulties. The team won its first MLS 2009 Cup, defeating Los Angeles Galaxy. The U.S. national team has played several international football matches here (due to fanatical support in games with Hispanic football clubs).

American mini-football began to develop since 2006 after the appearance of the Utah Blaze team in the city, which acts in the Arena Football League. In the first season of the game the team was visited by a huge number of fans. After the AFL began to experience some difficulties and subsequently ceased to exist, the future of the Blaze team was called into question. However, the league's assets were redeemed, and in 2010, a new organization came up, with the old name Arena Football League. In the same year, a new season of games began, in which the newly formed league began to function as the actual follower of the original AFL. The Blaze deal has been resumed and the team is currently playing in a new league.

There are also two teams in the city who play in the lower leagues. Salt Lake Bees is a branch of the professional baseball team Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in the Pacific League Triple A. Home games are held at the Spring Mobile Ballpark stadium. The team was organized in 1994 under the name of Buzz. In 2002 the name changed to Stingers, and in 2006 was renamed to Bees, the name of the baseball team, which has historical significance for Salt Lake City. The Utah Grizzlies hockey team, which sits in the ECHL league, was founded in 2005, replacing the previous Grizzlies team, which existed from 1995 to 2005 and played first in the IHL league and later in the AH L. The team plays at the Maverik Center Stadium, located in West Valley City.

The city doesn't have a professional team that plays American football, although the state is very popular with student team games. Both Utah University and Brigham Young University teams have a huge number of fans in the city, and the rivalry between the two universities has a long history and has come up with legends. Although Utah University is not a religious institution, sometimes this rivalry is called Holy War, because BYU belongs to the LDS Church. Before the 2011-2012 season, both teams performed at the Mountain West Conference NCAA’s Division I and from 1896 met on the field 90 times (continuously since 1922). Utah University has been at the center of a scandal related to making objective decisions about the participation of student teams in the Bowl Championship Series (BCS). In the 2004 and 2008 seasons the university team became the winner. However, she was not invited to participate in the national championship, citing twice the team's performance at the Mountain West Conference, which is not part of the BCS league. The Utah University team is the first student team to win the BCS League Cup twice (and was the only team invited to participate) without being a conferee member since the new system was introduced in 1998. In 2009, after the team was denied a second national championship, Utah Chief Prosecutor Mark Shurtleff announced that the BCS had launched an antitrust investigation, and Senator Orrin Hatch threatened to launch a case of antitrust violation the law.

The Utah Avalanche team, formed in January 2011, plays in the rugby league. She'll be a newcomer to the American National Rugby League. The Utah Warriors rugby team has been competing in the Rugby Super League since 2011. Home games take place at Rio Tinto Stadium. In June 2012 in Salt Lake City passed IRB Junior World Rugby Trophy the main international tournament on rugby among juniors in which more than 20 national teams acting in the second division took part.

Utah became the only state after Minnesota to play ball hockey after the creation of the Olympic Bandy Club in Salt Lake City. There are also two teams in the city that are competing in the roller-derby competition: the Salt City Derby Girls and Wasatch Roller Derby, who often compete with new teams.

Roads

State Street, Utah State Capitol

Salt Lake City is at the crossroads of two national highways: The I-15 runs north-south to the west of the city center, while the I-80 connects the city center with Salt Lake International Airport in the west, while the east leads to Parley’s Canyon. The I-215 route encloses the city in a 270-degree loop shape. The SR-201 extends to the western suburbs of Salt Lake City. The Legacy Parkway road, which was judicial and permanently delayed, was completed in September 2008. The route goes from I-215 and runs along the east coast of the Great Salt Lake north to Davis. The terrain makes it difficult to travel to Davis because of the narrow terrain between the Great Solar Lake in the west and the Wasatch Mountains in the east. Only four routes connecting the two districts carry the main traffic flow from Davis during rush hour.

The system of city streets in Salt Lake City has a simple rectangular layout. Streets are marked according to their directions to the north, south, east or west, where the main point of the report is the south-eastern corner of Temple Square, which is located in the center of the city. One of the main plans of Brigham Young and the first settlers was to create a system of wide, spacious streets, which became the hallmark of the city center. The rectangular layout has been preserved in the city almost in its original form, except for the East Bench area, due to its special geographical location. Almost the entire area of the Salt Lake Valley has the same rectangular and number layout, although in the more remote areas it becomes more disorderly. Most streets have their own names, as well as names according to the grid of coordinates, both of which can be used to specify an address. The US-89 section, which starts at the entrance of the city from the northwest direction and runs through the entire valley, is called State Street (except for the section of the road in the northern part of Salt Lake City).

Public transport

UTA TRAX Green Line tram at Gallivan Plaza stop

Salt Lake City has a public transportation system that includes bus, tram and suburban trains, controlled by the Utah Transit Authority (UTA). In May 2011, Salt Lake City's public transportation system ranked third in the country, according to the Brookings Institution's version, getting to work whenever possible, providing access to 59% of the jobs in the valley.

The light rail system, called TRAX, is made up of three lines with a total length of 56 km. The blue line, which was opened in 1999 and expanded in 2008, stretched from Salt Lake City Intermodal Hub to the south to the nearest town of Sandy. The red line, which started in 2001 and was expanded in 2011, goes from Utah University to Salt Lake City in a southeast direction to Daybreak. The third, Green Line, was opened in 2011 and connects Intermodal Hub to West Valley City. The light rail system has 41 stations, 17 of which are located within the city. Two sections of the road are underground; The blue line is currently being extended south to Draper, while the Green Line is further northwest to International Airport. According to the data for the third quarter of 2011, the daily traffic is 55,500 people, according to this indicator TRAX is the ninth largest light rail system in the U.S. in terms of usage.

The FrontRunner Suburban Railway Service, which began operating on April 26, 2008, ran from Intermodal Hub north to Ogden. According to data as of the third quarter of 2011, the line serves about 6,000 passengers daily. Currently, work is underway to expand FrontRunner south to Provo. The line is scheduled to end in December 2012. This construction is part of the UTA's FrontLines 2015 project. The extension of the lines was made possible by the increase in sales taxes, which are aimed at improving roads, light rail and suburban transport systems. The project was approved by residents on 7 November 2006. In addition, Federal Transit Administration has signed a $500 million agreement of intent to extend the 4 planned TRAX lines in addition to extending the FrontRunner line to the city of Provo.

UTA’s bus routes run throughout Wasatch Front, from Brigham City in the north to Santaquin in the south, to Grantsville in the west and Park City in the east. UTA also has routes to the Big and Little Cottonwood Canyons ski resorts, which are available during the ski season (usually from November to April). Every day, about 60,000 passengers are transported by buses, although it is reported that passenger traffic has decreased since the TRAX system became operational.

Amtrak, a national rail operator, connects passengers to Salt Lake City via the California Zephyr route between Chicago and Emeryville, California on a daily basis. Greyhound Bus Lines operates buses in the city, serving north-south routes along the I-15 highway in Utah. Both of these stations are located on the Intermodal Hub territory.

Air Message

Salt Lake International Airport is about 6 km west of the city center. On the territory of the airport there is a transit point of Delta Air Lines airline, which performs about 100 direct flights to the USA, Mexico, Canada, as well as to Paris and Tokyo. SkyWest Airlines' largest Delta Connection transit site is located at the airport, and the company routes to 243 cities under the trademarks Delta Connection and United Express. The airport serves 4 bus routes of the UTA organization, it is planned to open routes of light rail transport by 2012. Salt Lake International Airport received a total of 22,029,488 passengers in 2007, an increase of 2.19% over 2006. The airport is 21st in the U.S. in terms of load, and consistently ranks first in the country in terms of flight arrival and departure schedules and second in terms of the lowest number of canceled flights. Near the city are two airports of civil aviation: South Valley Regional Airport in West Jordan and Skypark Airport in Woods Cross.

Bike transport

In Salt Lake City, bike rides are becoming more and more popular. In 2010, the League of American Cyclists awarded Salt Lake City the Silver-level Bicycle Friendly Community, placing it in 18th place among "bicycle-friendly" cities with a population of more than 100,000 in the US. Before that, in 2007, the city received the award one level lower - the bronze. Bicycle lanes are located on most of the city's highways and a special map has also been issued. The map shows bicycle lanes, universal use lanes and mountain routes.

One of the most popular cycling and hiking routes is the road around City Creek Canyon on Bonneville Boulevard. One lane (one-way) is for road transport and the other (two-way) is for cyclists and pedestrians. The City Creek Canyon Road is closed to public transportation on odd days in the summer, and is prohibited from cycling on even days and holidays.

As of 2010, 80 private businesses are part of the Bicycle Benefits Program, which provides discounts for all customers who arrive at a particular location on a bicycle.

Salt Lake City has the first "Green Shared Lanes" lanes in the USA, designed specifically for cyclists. In 2008, a transport engineer from Dangenthal initiated a project that would have marked green paths for cyclists in the middle of the road. The same projects were implemented in the cities of Long Beach, California, and Brookline, Massachusetts.

Bicycles are allowed in buses, trams, and FrontRunner suburban trains. Also, bicycles can be transported free of charge at peak hour. However, each bus or train has a limit on the number of bicycles. You can carry folded bicycles on Amtrak trains on the California Zephyr route when you drive to Salt Lake City. Bicycles that are not folded should be placed in a box and carried in a special luggage wagon of the convoy, although not all stops of the route can be picked up.

In September 2010, the Utah Transit Authority, together with the management of Salt Lake City, Utah Department of Transportation, Wasatch Front Regional Council Mayor’s Bicycle Advisory Committee, opened the Bicycle Transit Center (BTC) at the Intermodal Hub ). This center provides secure parking inside the building for 50 bicycles. Bikes are also available for rent in the center. It is expected that BTC will serve passengers traveling by TRAX and FrontRunner trains, who use various modes of transport, as well as provide bicycle protection services for cyclists who want to go on a hiking tour through Salt Lake City or through the city. The grand opening ceremony took place on September 25, 2010.

Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker is an avid mountain bike lover. He goes to work by bicycle and often near City/County Building you can see his vehicle. In 2009, during Becker's administration, Ms. Becca Rolf was appointed as the first coordinator of cycling and walking in the Transport Department of the city.

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