Chelyabinsk is a city and the administrative center of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located

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Chelyabinsk is a city and the administrative center of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located in the northeast of the
oblast, 210 kilometers south of Yekaterinburg, just to the east of the Ural Mountains, on the Miass River, on the
border of Europe and Asia.

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Fortress Chelyaba, from which the city takes its name, was
constructed on the site in 1736.
The city was incorporated in 1781.
Colonel Alexey Ivanovich Tevkelev is the founder
of Chelyabinsk. He decided where should be located
the fortress and how it should be built.

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Chelyabinsk has 17 public parks. The largest of them is one of the best in Russia - Chelyabinsk Central Park,
named after Gagarin. Its territory is saved in the urban forest,
where, among pine trees and granite rocks there are several
picturesque ex-quarries now flooded with water.
You can walk across Kirovka Pedestrian Street.
This street is popular among tourists because
of the beauty of the architecture,
cafes and bars, great food, and beautiful atmosphere.

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There are many museums such as Chelyabinsk Museum of Regional Studies, Museum of Labor and Fighting Glory and
a lot of others. There is a great number of monuments, memorials, and sculptures in Chelyabinsk.
For instance, monument to Kurchatov, Monument to Orlenok,
Memorial to Law and Order Soldiers,
Monument to Soldiers-Internationalists, Sculpture the Firefighter,
Monument To New Way and a lot of others.
Also you can find Eternal Flame in Tsvillinga street in Chelyabinsk.
It was lit in 1965 after the people who did not return from World War 2.

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There are many sport facilities of Chelyabinsk. For example, palace of sports Yunost, Сentral stadium, ice palace of
sports Ural molnia.
Ice Arena Traktor is the biggest and most popular sport facilities. It is a big and new hokey arena.

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There are many means of transport in Chelyabinsk. For example, bus, trolleybus, tram and minibus.

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A lot of famous people were born in Chelyabinsk, such as Evgeny Kuznetsov, Oleg Mityaev, Stanislav Yarushin.
Alexey Texler and other.