Челябинская область в 1950 году

Chelyabinsk region in 1950

Chelyabinsk Oblast is located in the southern Ural mountains region of Russia and is on the border of Europe and Asia.
During the 1930s, the regional economy and industrial output grew as Chelyabinsk Oblast became a key focus of the first Five-Year Plans. Key factories and enterprises that formed the core of the modern Chelyabinsk economy, including the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant and the Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant, were founded at this time. The economy continued to grow with the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, as industries were evacuated from the western parts of the Soviet Union to Ural, and Chelyabinsk Oblast in particular.
During the war, Magnitogorsk alone produced one third of all Soviet steel, while the city of Chelyabinsk became the main centre of Soviet tank production, earning the nickname "Tankograd" (Tank City)........

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