The canteen of the former sanatorium «The Urals Machine Builder» (nowadays boarding school) has also functioned as a club. There was a dancing square opposite the present-time railway station. There was a brass band there. In March, 1946, the Red Army amateur talent activities were organized. A shed was made just in the street and there «the artists» performed. The movies in military unit were shown outdoors. They waited for the darkness and stretched a sheet on the wall. There was a library, a medical unit, a canteen and a club in barracks. In 1952 the building of a club was constructed on the territory of the military unit. But especially the amateur talent activities were developed in a reformatory, because in the colony the real artists served time, whose talents allowed to stage such operettas as «Silva», «Raskinulos More Shiroko»(«The Sea Has Stretched Wide») and others. A good brass band performed not only on holidays, but on guard mounting as well. When the amateur talent activities gave fee paying concerts for the town in the Club of Building, it was overcrowded. The artists were encored. In front of the curtain, on a stage the soldiers with sub-machine-guns were sitting.
In 1949 the plant No 813 started to work and our town’s and its professional cultural establishments’ development began. The Culture department attached to the trade union committee No 9 of the plant was created. The club «Stroitel» («The Builder») became the first cultural institution in 1949. It was situated in the railway-station district for the military builders. Barchukov  V. K. was appointed as the director of the club. In that year the library was opened, it was situated in Lenin Street. Besides that the Junior Technical Station, the stadium «Stroitel», the Water Station were opened. In 1949 the cinema «Rodina»(«Motherland») started its work. Then the Musical School was created. Nowadays its name is the Children’s Arts School. In 1951 the Theatre was opened in our town.
In March, 1954, Novouralsk officially got the status of the town and in June the Culture department was handed over to the authority of the Town Soviet. In November, 1955, the Culture House of the UECP (the Urals Electro-Chemical Plant) was opened. In 1957 the Puppet-show started its work. In 1961 one more library appeared — the Library of UPC-123 (the United Plant Committee). In 1968 the House of Young Pioneers and Schoolchildren was built. Soon the second cinema «Neiva» was opened. In 1973 the new building of «Stroitel»-club was built. In 1975 the Museum of Regional Studies was opened in our town. In 1979 the Children’s Art School admitted new students. In 1988 the Park of Attractions started its work. In 1992 a new building of the Central Town Library was opened for our citizens. At last in March, 1998, the Concert-Sport Complex (уSC) began working.