Editing Irbit (section)

==Economy==
After [[World War II]], various branches of industry, such as engineering, manufacturing of construction materials, pharmaceutical, light, and food-manufacturing industries developed rapidly. During the war a [[motorcycle]]-manufacturing plant was moved here from [[Moscow]]. For more than fifty years, over three million motorcycles had been produced here. The factory now produces only two thousand motorcycles a year, most of which are for export. In the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] times, however, hundreds of thousands were produced. Today it produces different types of motorcycles and spare parts for them, specializing in heavy motorcycles with [[sidecar]]s. Irbit is also the former world headquarters for Russian motorcycle manufacturer [[IMZ-Ural|Ural Motorcycles]]. In 2022, the Ural factory moved to Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan.

Irbit dairy plant is the largest milk-processing plant in the Urals. In 2004, it processed 66,000 [[ton]]s of milk. Irbit bakery plant manufactures different types of breads and batons, cakes, croutons, toasts. Irbit chemico-pharmaceutical plant produces drugs, chemical substances, fluids for chemical industry.

===Natural resources===
Water resources are represented by the [[Nitsa River|Nitsa]] and [[Irbit River]]s. Mineral resources include [[diatomaceous earth]] and glass-making [[sand]] deposits.

===Transportation===
The town is crossed by the long distance railway Yekaterinburg–[[Tavda]]–[[Ustye-Akha]] and by road traffic routes, directed to [[Kamyshlov]], [[Artyomovsk, Russia|Artyomovsk]], [[Turinsk]], and [[Tyumen]].