Pictures from Chelyabinsk.

Chelyabinsk (62 degrees of eastern longitude, 55.5 degrees of northern latitude) is located in the southern part of the Ural mountains approximately 1500kms to the east from Moscow. Chelyabinsk is the capital of the large Chelyabinsk region that occupies 87,900 square km. around the border of Europe and Asia in the southern part of the Urals. The population of Chelyabinsk was about 1.4 million people in 1997. Chelyabinsk region has a highly developed industry and occupies the fifth position in Russia (after Moscow city, St.Petersburg, Moscow and Sverdlovsk Oblast) by volume of industrial production.

Chelyabinsk: an overview (the largest city on the south of Ural), sights of the city and pictures of wild nature around Chelyabinsk ( Russian version). All pictures are maintained on FREEnet Ural Regional Center server. Comments: webmaster@urc.ac.ru

Chelyabinsk in postcards from the 1980s:
1. Revolution Square (1st view) (69 KB)
2. Revolution Square (2nd view) (78 KB)
3. Hotel "Malakhit" (85 KB)
4. Embankment of the Miass river (77 KB)
5. Centre of the city (86 KB)
6. Railway station (84 KB)
7. Southern Urals State University (77 KB)
8. Komsomoliskiy Prospect (97 KB)
9. Memorial to V.I. Lenin (92 KB)
10. Palace of the Young Pioneers & N.K. Krupskoy School (96 KB)
Pictures of old and modern city views of Chelyabinsk are presented on the server Chelyabinsk.Ru. The server was created by the Business Communication Center of Chelyabinsk Oblast and is supported by the Economics Committee of the Chelyabinsk Oblast Administration. E-mail to: www@chelyabinsk.ru.

Pictures from Snezhinsk. This city was known as Chelyabinsk-70 in the cold war era and was one of the most closed cities in the world because The Russian Federal Nuclear Center is located there. Now you can see a collection of several pictures taken in the city, read about its history and find more information about life there. Send your comments to: wwwadmin@delta.ch70.chel.su

Sight-seeing tour (in Russian, Win encoding) around Magnitogorsk in the Chelyabinsk region is constructed by Artem Novokreschenov. Send comments to: Shtirlitz@bbs.magnitka.ru
Magnitogorsk is a large metallurgic center; its population was about 450,000 in 1996. The Ural river divides the city into 2 parts, the western part belonging to Europe, the eastern part belonging to Asia. Street cars go via 4 bridges linking Europe and Asia. Other information about the city and the joint-stock company Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works is available from the Magnitka.ru server. Send comments/questions to: dmitry@magnitka.ru and Webmaster@magnitka.ru

Miass and the State Reserve Ilmeny. Copyright © Institute of Mineralogy, 1996. Send comments to: root@imin.urc.ac.ru

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