Chelyabinsk Oblast
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Chelyabinsk Oblast is a federal subject of Russia in the Ural Mountains region, on the border of Europe and Asia. Its administrative center is the city of Chelyabinsk.
Lake Itkul
Seat of the Oblast government in Chelyabinsk
Governor's residence
Magnitogorsk
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Magnitogorsk is an industrial city in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, on the eastern side of the southern Ural Mountains by the Ural River. Its population is currently 410,594.
Chelyabinsk Oblast
…War in 1941, as industries evacuated from the western parts of the Soviet Union to the Urals, and to Chelyabinsk Oblast in particular. During the war, Magnitogorsk alone produced one third of all Soviet steel, while the city of Chelyabinsk became the main center of Soviet tank production, earning the nickname…
Magnitogorsk State Technical University
Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, 1930s
Great Mosque of Magnitogorsk
Magnitogorsk Church of the Ascension of the Lord