Kopeisk

Year of foundation – 1933
Territory – 358 sq. km

Nearest railway station – Chelyabinsk - Yuzhny

Distance to the region center - 24 km
Population – 138,2 thousand people

City status from 20.06.1933

It is situated on the eastern slope of the South Urals, 20 km to the south-east from Chelyabinsk.

It appeared from several working villages on the place of the Chelyabinsk coal mines where in 1907 industrial coal mining began near the Tugaikul village (from Turkic "tugai" meaning "flood-lands forest" and "kul" – "lake"). The name of the village was Kopi, the Chelyabinsk coal mines.

Kopeisk is the only city in the region which has the battle award - the Red Colours Order for the heroism of the miners during the Civil War. In the years of first five-year plans several large mines were built.

Culture, Sights

Regional museum

City's economy

Kopeisk is the city of coal-miners.

The leading branches of industry are machine-building, metal-working, fuel, food and medical industry, industry of building materials.

In 2001 industry comprised 56,4%, agriculture – 24,3%, building – 4,0%, transport and communications – 4,1%, trade and public catering – 0,3% in the structure of production. 

City enterprises:

Plants: machine-building, plastic, car repair, repair and engineering works, household chemical goods, radio-television repair.

Factories: furniture factory and two clothes factories.

Dairy and meat farming, poultry keeping prevail in agriculture. Potato, vegetable, fruit and berry growing is developed.