Geography of Magnitogorsk
Magnitogorsk, Russia, a city on the Ural River in the Ural Mountains, 880 miles (1,420 km) east of Moscow. The city is the site of an iron and steel plant and also produces chemicals and heavy machinery. Nosov Institute of Ore Mining and Metallurgy is here. Magnitogorsk was founded in 1929.
Population: 430,000.