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Ekaterinburg
Chelyabinsk
Magnitogorsk
Orsk
Orenburg
Ekaterinburg
Ekaterinburg Lenin
Ekaterinburg Lenin
City Founders
St Katherine's Chapel
Statue of Yakov Sverdlov
Station Mural: WWII
Station Mural: Civil War & Romanovs
Station Mural: Gary Powers falls to earth.
Sverdlov outside station
Church on the Blood
Restaurant CCCP
Military Museum
Chelyabinsk
Former Church
Now a Concert Hall for Chamber and Organ Music
Sunday believers, outside former church.
Lenin in Chelyabinsk
Lenin in Chelyabinsk
Traktorozavodsky Raion
Tractor Factory Museum (closed)
Tank Commander Monument.
WWII Eternal Flame
62 miles SW of Chelyabinsk
Magnitogorsk
"Urals to the Front" Monument
Eternal Flame + Urals Monument
Magnitogorsk Lenin
Outside the Town Hall
Steelworker Statue
Opposite train station.
Magnitogorsk Station
Tent Monument
To the early construction teams.
Magnitogorsk: The Mighty Steelworks
Magnitogorsk Steelworks
From across the Ural River
The Mighty Steel Works
Modern section of Steel Works
Steelworks Gates Frieze
Lenin at the Steelworks Gates
Steelworks Gates Frieze
Steelworks Shop
Steelworks Working Entrance
Steelworks from vista hill.
Magnitogorsk: MMK Museum
MMK Theatre, beside Museum
WWII Tank, opposite MMK Museum
Magnitogorsk: Local Lore Museum
Local Lore Museum
Relics from 1929
Photo of the Tent City
St Ivan Slays the Nazi Dragon !
Magnitogorsk: Local History Museum
Painting of 1930s construction
A lump of the Magnetic Mountain
Magnitogorsk: Other
Hotel Laguna: Water Park
Hotyel Laguna: Piranha Club
Magnitogorsk Mosque
Magnitogorsk Cathedral
Magnitogorsk Tram
Grand 1930s building near steelworks gates.
Old City Soviet??
Europe-Asia Bridge over Ural River
Ural River
From Europe to Asia
Magnitogorsk Apartments
Apartment Block
Orsk
Oddly aloof Lenin in central Orsk
Ural River at Orsk
Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Cossack Hetman
A relaxed, human, and slightly green Lenin
Orsk Church
Orsk Mosque
Orsk WWII Heroes
Fortecia Steppe Hotel
Fortecia Steppe Hotel
Orenburg
Welcoming Lenin, in Orenburg
Orenburg City Hall
Oremburg Lenin #2
V.P. Chkalov, Soviet Test Pilot
After whom the city was named, 1938-57
Ural River at Orenburg
Europe-Asia marker on Ural Bridge
Oremburg Cossack Monument
Local History Museum
Local History Museum
Kazakh symbol
Local History Museum
Pugachev, of Pugachev Rebellion fame
Local History Museum
Sad Stalin, Local History Museum
SS20 at Victory Park
SS20 at Victory Park
Mig 23
WWII Monument, Victory Park
A glimpse of Stalin through a window.
In a closed exhibit at Victory Park
Sel-propelled Artillery, Victroy Park
Victorious Tanks
Eccentric Cossack Museum
17 miles West of Orenburg
109 miles West of Orenburg
52 miles East of Samara
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