Where is Chelyabinsk
Where is Chelyabinsk
Chelyabinsk is the largest city in Russia, the industrial center of metallurgy and the largest transport hub. The city gained fame thanks to its factories and legends about the severity of local men.
The border of Siberia and the Urals
Chelyabinsk is one of the largestindustrial cities of the Russian Federation with a predominance of metallurgical plants. The city was founded in 1736 and is located on the territory of the Chelyabinsk region, being its center. And not only administrative, but also a connecting node of railways, highways and airports. It is through Chelyabinsk that the longest trans-Siberian railway passes in the world, linking one end of the country with another. And it is here that almost all the equipment of heavy industry and materials of the whole country is shipped. An interesting feature is that the city is built on seven hills in the same way as Moscow, Rome and Constantinople. The fourth Rome has a temperate continental climate. The city itself is located in the middle of Eurasia continent far from the seas. Winter here is long and snowy, and spring is long and warm. Chelyabinsk has an unofficial honorary title "Gateway to Siberia", because it is located on the border of Siberia and the Urals. In the XIX-XX centuries, after the construction of the Transsib was completed, many travelers from other countries preferred to buy postcards at the railway station of Chelyabinsk as proof that they had visited Siberia. In addition, Chelyabinsk is often unofficially called the "Capital of the South Urals" and "Tankograd" for its location, size, economic impact on the region and history.Location of Chelyabinsk
Chelyabinsk is located to the east of the Uralsmountains almost two hundred kilometers south of Yekaterinburg. It is located at an altitude of 250 m above sea level. The western part stands on the granite of the Urals, and the eastern part - on the sedimentary rocks of Western Siberia. The Leningrad bridge is a bridge that connects the west and east of the banks of the Miass River. It is this river that is the border of Siberia and the Urals, and the bridge was baptized among the people from the Urals to Siberia. In addition, the city has a Shershnevo reservoir and three lakes - Smolino, Sineglazovo and Pervoi. From north to south-west extends Sosnovsky district, and from the east Chelyabinsk supports the satellite town of Kopeisk. In the north-east the city divides the border with the Krasnoarmeysky district. If you look on the map, the industrial center of the Chelyabinsk region is located at coordinates 55 ° 09 'north latitude and 61 ° 24' east longitude and covers an area of up to 530 square kilometers. Regarding Moscow, the city is in zone of the Ekaterinburg time zone MSK +2 or UTC +6.
