Talk:Chelyabinsk

Closed to foreigners & most polluted spot on earth

For forty-five years, Chelyabinsk province of Russia was closed to all foreigners.Only in January of 1992 did President Boris Yeltsin sign a decree changing that.Shortly afterwards, I made my first trip to this region, which later Western scientists declared to be the most polluted spot on earth. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.229.38.162 (talk) 11:02, 24 June 2005 (UTC)

It's complete nonsense. I say it as I've been living here all my life. --Anthony Ivanoff 03:07, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I was born there and I heard very much the same thing that it is in fact the most polluted place on Earth, more so than Chernobyl. However, the polluted area is not the city itself but rather a part of the Chelyabinsk Oblast north of the city. It's not like the accident happened in the city itself. alex 02:22, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

You might want to take a look at the Zone Rouge, an area in Northern France where there is so much unexploded ordinance, heavy metal and poison gas contamination from World War I that it's estimated that it won't be habitable for another 300 - 700 years.I don't know how that compares to the contaminated area near Chelyabinsk, but if it isn't worse, it's damn close. JDZeff (talk) 22:58, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

Meteor shower

Reuters has news of a meteor shower hitting the city; not yet sufficiently verified to be encyclopedic, but possibly notable once the dust settles. Edward Vielmetti (talk) 05:44, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Blast was in 9:26 local time. Meteorit destroed in air above Korkino and Emanzhelinsk between Yuzhnouralsk and Chelyabinsk. Some windows broken by blast. This information from Yuzhnouralsk, Chelyabinsk state.94.51.51.232 (talk) 07:18, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

I think this is the first meteor to land in an urban area, and if it isn't already notable it definitely will be in just hours. --83.4.83.191 (talk) 08:27, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

The meteor didn't "land" or "crash". The original 11 000 tonne object, travelling at 18 km/sec, exploded some 25 km above ground. The shock wave from that blew in the windows. Thousands of tiny fragments fell out of the sky down range from the explosion. Most are very small, but there may be a few objects in the hundred kg range yet to be found. Additionally, there was no meteor shower. A meteor shower is when multiple objects are seen brightly in the sky coming from the same direction over a period of hours or days. This event was caused by a single object entering the atmosphere. The breakup created a strewn field. That's something quite different to a meteor shower. -- 212.139.104.186 (talk) 09:52, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

These offer pretty thorough coverage:

• http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2013/02142336-breaking-meteor-fall-causes.html
• http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/02/15/breaking_huge_meteor_explodes_over_russia.html

-- 108.194.162.222 (talk) 08:27, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Geography and Climate

I tried to cast all the information contained in many chaotic sentences into a somewhat consistent picture. However I came across a sentence which said: Strictly by the Urals and Siberia border of the road from the "Meridian". This is not English and I have no idea what the author was trying to say, so I moved it here. --BjKa (talk) 13:40, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

You'd have to translate this back to Russian, word to word, for it to start making any sense :) Basically, what the sentence is trying to say is that the city sits on the border which separates the Urals from Siberia (and thus Europe from Asia). "Meridian" is the designation of the auto route which follows that border. At any rate, while this is a mildly interesting fact, it probably is not worth reinstating in the article.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); April 28, 2015; 14:07 (UTC)

Winter photos would be nice

All the photos in the article appear to show the city in summer. How about other seasons? --Pmsyyz (talk) 10:21, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

There are a few winter Chelyabinsk photos on the Commons (do check the subcats, too). You are welcome to pick some which you believe would be a better choice and use them in this article.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); April 25, 2016; 16:28 (UTC)

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Russlish

Some parts of the text are seriously ungrammatical, affected by Russian syntax and probably vocabulary, and require some heavy editing by someone who can read the Russian article.

History:
In addition, in Chelyabinsk was organized custom office set "customs fracture" the bounding duty-free grain and tea to the European part of the country that led to the emergence in mills and set the tea-packing factory. Soon Chelyabinsk started turning into a major trade center, its population reached 20,000 inhabitants by 1897, 45,000 by 1913, and 70,000 by 1917. For rapid growth at the turn of the 20th century, similar to American cities, Chelyabinsk called "Behind the Urals Chicago".

--Thnidu (talk) 00:23, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

Cannibalism incident of 1999

Is this at all relevant? I haven't found any info on it other than this documentary, so I wanted to make sure.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_KEO7RDzwo

172.97.223.45 (talk) 22:12, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 23 October 2019

Please add this paragraph to the article. "In November 2017 in Chelyabinsk in the park near the organ hall Rodina was opened a monument to the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Empire Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin. The event was dedicated to the 111th anniversary of the Stolypin Reforms. The author of the monument is sculptor Anton Plokhotsky, a member of the Moscow Union of artists. Stolypin Reforms added momentum to the development of Chelyabinsk." Assyma (talk) 18:30, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

 Not done. First, where in the article? But more importantly, you need to provide reliable source(s) that verify this information. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 19:01, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

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