Magnitogorsk

Year of foundation – 1929

Territory – 376 sq. km

Nearest railway station – Magnitogorsk

Distance to the region center - 260 km
Population – 426,5 thousand people

Magnitogorsk, the second largest city in the region, is one of the biggest industrial centers in Russia.

It is situated on the eastern slope of the South Urals, on the river Ural.

Iron-ore deposits of Magnitnaya mount were found in 1740s. In 1743 the Cossack fortress, the Magnitnaya stanitsa, was built nearby. It was one of the base stations of the Orenburg frontier line. Two centuries later in 1929 the construction of the gigantic plant began near mount Magnitnaya.

Culture. Sights

Theaters: dramatic, puppet.
Museums: regional museum, museums of equipment of the Magnitogorsk metallurgical industrial complex and of mining-metallurgical institute, museum-apartment of the poet Ruch'ev B.A.  

Institutes of higher education

-Magnitogorsk state mining-metallurgical academy (455000, Magnitogorsk, Lenin st., 38,
tel.: (3519) 32-04-46, 32-12-87).
- Magnitogorsk state musical pedagogical institute (455036, Magnitogorsk, Gryaznov st., 22, tel.: (3519) 37-13-75).
- Magnitogorsk state university (455043, Magnitogorsk, Lenin st., 114, tel.: (3519) 35-96-55, 34-74-98).

City's economy

The leading branches of industry are ferrous metallurgy, machine-building, metal-working, forest, woodworking and pulp and paper industry, flour-and-cereals and mixed fodder industry, industry of building materials.

In 2001 industry comprised 88,4%, building – 6,0%, transport and communications – 1,4%, trade and public catering – 0,5% in the structure of production. 

Enterprises:
- Magnitogorsk metallurgical industrial complex
- Hardware-metallurgical, calibrating, crane, forming, oxygen, sulfuric acid  and other plants

- Building materials production

- Piano factory

- Enterprises of light (clothes factory, etc.) and food (dairy factory) industries

Growing of vegetables, fruit, berries and potatoes prevails in agriculture. Growing of cattle and poultry and the production of milk and eggs are developed.