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Magnitogorsk City Info
Magnitogorsk is a mining and industrial city by the Ural River in Russia, with one of the largest iron and steel works in the country.On the eastern (Siberian) side of the southern part of the Ural Mountains. In 2002 the all-Russia population census reported 419,100 inhabitants.Magnitogorsk, according to plans, would have followed the linear city design, with rows of similar superblock neighborhoods running parallel to the factory, and with a strip of greenery - or greenbelt - to separate them. Planners would align living and production spheres so as to minimize necessary travel time: workers would generally live in a sector of the residential band closest to the sector of the industrial band in which they worked