Where is Chelyabinsk? On the map of Russia there are many well-known large cities and glorious small towns. The administrative center of the Chelyabinsk region occupies a worthy place among the leading industrial regions.
What secrets does the history of the city keep? What does this regional center look like now? Tourists who are going to this region and those who need to make a business trip to a large industrial city have a lot of questions. First, let's look at where Chelyabinsk is located on the map of Russia.
Geography
Chelyabinsk is comfortably located to the east of the Ural Mountains. It is the southern neighbor of Yekaterinburg, the distance to which is about 200 km. The area is recognized by geologists and geographers as a conditional frontier of Western Siberia and the Urals. The Leningrad Bridge is a link between the "Ural" and "Siberian" banks of the Miass River, which is the main waterway of Chelyabinsk.
The city of Chelyabinsk on the map of Russia, intended for motorists, is highlighted by the Meridian highway passing through the residential area, part of which is recognizedborder of Siberia and the Urals. The southwestern and northern neighbor of the city is the Sosnovsky district, in the east it borders on the satellite city of Kopeysk. In the northeast of Chelyabinsk - Krasnoarmeysky district.
In the city there is a large donor of drinking water - the Shershnevskoye reservoir. There are picturesque clean lakes in the vicinity: First, Smolino, Sineglazovo. On the territory of Chelyabinsk there are several small rivers that carry their waters to Miass. Among them are Chernushka, Igumenka, Chikinka, Kolupaevka.
Chelyabinsk stands on a hilly terrain in the west, which gradually changes and to the east, closer to the city of Miass, turns into hollows with lakes and swamps. Both banks of the river are covered with dense shrubs.
The location of Chelyabinsk on the map of Russia indicates that the city is in the Ekaterinburg time zone. There is a constant offset relative to Moscow time, denoted by MSK+2.
Origin of the name
At the moment, scientists do not have a consensus on the origins of the name of the city. There is a widespread version according to which, on the site of modern Chelyabinsk, there was a settlement founded in the tract Chelebi, which in translation from Turkic means “an educated prince”. There is a version among the old-timers that the city owes its name to a fortress that stood on a depression, a large shallow pit, which is translated into Bashkir as “Silabe”. Later, an alternative version appeared that before the birth of Chelyabinsk, this place was the Tatar village of Selyaba. There is a theory of the origin of the toponym from the name of the river, becausethis is how the Turkic peoples used to call their patrimonies.
History
When and where is Chelyabinsk? This city appeared on the map of Russia in 1736 thanks to the decision of Colonel Tevkelev to lay a fortress on the site of the Bashkir settlement of Chelyaba. The consent of the owner of the land plot, the Bashkir Tarkhan Shaimov, was obtained, which ultimately contributed to the exemption of the Bashkirs from taxes. The city status was assigned to Chelyabinsk half a century later - in 1787.
Until the end of the 18th century, Chelyabinsk was a calm county town, in which global events rarely took place. At this time, the development of alluvial gold started on the Miass River. And with the official discovery of the gold-bearing vein, the region was swept by the “gold rush”. The first half of the 19th century was characterized by the intensive development and development of trade and crafts. In just a few years, thanks to the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway, the city has taken a leading position in the Urals in the trade of butter, bread, tea, and meat.
Over the century, the population has increased significantly and by 1917 was about 70 thousand inhabitants. The territory of Chelyabinsk has grown by a third. New settlements appeared near the railway station. A women's gymnasium, a spiritual and real school, and a trade school were opened. The Railway Assembly Club and the People's House began to work. Agencies, trade offices, branches of foreign companies were active.
In the Soviet period, Chelyabinsk becomes largeindustrial and industrial center. In the 1990s, the city experienced a severe financial crisis. Many enterprises went bankrupt, workers were not paid wages, unemployment increased, social programs were not financed enough.
Modernity
The ongoing reforms have yielded results: enterprises of the industrial sector began to work actively, revenues to the budget increased, incomes of citizens began to grow. Many factories and combines presented their products to the world market. The reconstruction of roads and the construction of modern transport routes have started.
Today this city is the administrative center of regional significance with a population of over 1,100 thousand inhabitants.
Location (see where Chelyabinsk is located on the map of Russia) and perfect transport interchange helped him to become one of the largest industrial cities in Russia. In its arsenal are enterprises of metallurgy, mechanical engineering, instrument making, light and food industries.
In Chelyabinsk there are large trading structures of both international and federal companies. There are banking and credit institutions. Chelyabinsk is a significant cultural center. The city has an unusually developed infrastructure of the hotel sector, which provides visitors with comfortable and affordable housing.
