Magnitogorsk is an example of a planned industrial city based on Stalin's 1930s five-year plans.

Magnitogorsk (, roughly translated as magnet-mountain city ) is an industrial city in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located on the eastern side of the extreme southern extent of the Ural Mountains by the Ural River.

The largest iron and steel works in the country, Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, is located here.

Administratively, it is incorporated as the City of Magnitogorsk — an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.

Municipally, the City of Magnitogorsk is incorporated as Magnitogorsky Urban Okrug.

The city is connected by the Magnitogorsk International Airport, and by railway.

Metallurg Magnitogorsk is an ice hockey team based in Magnitogorsk, playing in the Kontinental Hockey League.

The town's football team is FC Magnitogorsk playing in the Amateur Football League.

The book is about Magnitogorsk, its history and natural resources

It is said May's " brigade " of German architects and planners established twenty cities in three years, including Magnitogorsk.

Although May's group is indeed credited with building 20 cities in three years, the reality was that May found Magnitogorsk already under construction and the town site dominated by the mine.

Krivoye Ozero is a small lake in the Chelyabinsk Oblast of Russia, southeast of Magnitogorsk, near the Kazakhstani border.

Daniil " Danny " Yevgenyevich Markov (; born July 30, 1976 ) is a professional ice hockey defenceman for Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the Kontinental Hockey League.

There the group of architects was commissioned to help realize the first of Stalin's five-year plans, for example by building the industrial city of Magnitogorsk which, situated in the middle of nowhere in the southern Ural Mountains, Russia, on their arrival only consisted of mud huts and barracks: It was to have 200, 000 inhabitants in a few years ' time, the majority of them working in the steel industry.

The 1995 documentary film Sotsgorod (" Socialist Cities ") interviewed some of the last survivors of these groups: Lihotzky, Jan Rutgers, and Phillipp Tolziner of the Bauhaus Brigade, and visited four of the planned cities: Magnitogorsk, Orsk, Novokuznetsk and Kemerovo.

In 1929, Ivens went to the Soviet Union and, to his astonishment, was invited to direct a film on a topic of his own choosing which was the new industrial city of Magnitogorsk.

A number of industrial complexes such as Magnitogorsk and Kuznetsk, the Moscow and Gorky automobile plants, the Urals and Kramatorsk heavy machinery plants, and Kharkov, Stalingrad and Cheliabinsk tractor plants had been built or were under construction.

The book Behind the Urals, by John Scott, documents the industrial development of Magnitogorsk during the 1930s.

For one, Stalin began to emphasize industrial modernization in favor of agriculture by the mid 1930s ; secondly, Magnitogorsk was rich in iron ore and other minerals ; lastly, and perhaps most importantly, Magnitogorsk lies far from any borders and was less vulnerable to enemy attack.

During the Soviet industrialization in the 1930s the city of Magnitogorsk was founded in the southeastern Urals as a center of iron smelting and steelmaking.

Ernst May, a famous German functionalist architect, formulated his initial plan for Magnitogorsk, a new city in the Soviet Union, primarily following the model that he had established with his Frankfurt settlements: identical, equidistant five-story communal apartment buildings and an extensive network of dining halls and other public services.

In 1937 foreigners were told to exit and Magnitogorsk was declared a closed city.

The city played an important role during World War II because it supplied much of the steel for the Soviet war machine and its strategic location near the Ural Mountains meant Magnitogorsk was safe from seizure by the German Army.

Years after perestroika brought a significant change in the life of the city, the Iron and Steel Plant was reorganized as a joint-stock company Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works ( MISW or MMK ), which helped with the reconstruction of the railway and building a new airport.

Magnitogorsk was built to closely replicate the steel mill city Gary, Indiana.

This particular strain of humane, functionalist urban planning would eventually lead to the extensive German housing projects of Ernst May and Bruno Taut in the 1920s, May's plans for Magnitogorsk and other Russian cities, and then widespread influence through Tessenow's student Otto Koeningsberger, an urban planner who worked in Asia, Latin America, Africa and particularly India, for instance the 1948 plan for the Indian city of Bhubaneswar.

Scott wrote Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel about his experiences in Magnitogorsk, presenting the Stalinist enterprise of building a huge steel producing plant and city as an awe-inspiring triumph of collectivism.

On June 8, 2012 it was announced that Barrasso would be joining Paul Maurice on the coaching staff of Metallurg Magnitogorsk of the Kontinental Hockey League.

The first leg of the final was held on January 21, 2009 in the Magnitogorsk Arena where the Lions came back from a 0-2 deficit to Metallurg Magnitogorsk to end with a 2-2 tie.

The areas of the Central Ural regions on the both sides of the Ural Mountains ( Sverdlovsk, Nizhny Tagil, Chelyabinsk, Magnitogorsk, Orsk ) are dominated by mining and processing of metals and suburban agriculture.

The rapid development of Magnitogorsk stood at the forefront of Joseph Stalin's Five-Year Plans in the 1930s.

A steel production facility in Magnitogorsk in the 1930s

Stalin integrated the construction of Magnitogorsk into a five-year economic plan.

According to original plans Magnitogorsk was to be inspired by Gary, Indiana and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at the time the most prominent centers of steel production in the United States.

However, by the time that May completed his plans for Magnitogorsk construction of both factory and housing had already started.

He returned to the Soviet Union to make the film about Magnitogorsk, Song of Heroes in 1931 with music composed by Hanns Eisler.

Industrial area in Magnitogorsk in 1929.

In 1951, Popovich graduated as a construction engineer from a technical school in Magnitogorsk, as well as receiving a pilot's degree.

The Ural River rises nearby the Mount Kruglayain in the Ural Mountains, flows south parallel and west of the north-flowing Tobol River, through Magnitogorsk, and around the southern end of the Urals, through Orsk where it turns west for about 300 km, to Orenburg, when the Sakmara River joins.

From Magnitogorsk to Orsk its banks are steep and rocky and the bottom has many rifts.

The region has an extensive system of art and cultural schools, including three higher educational institutions: the Chelyabinsk State Institute of Art and Culture, the Chelyabinsk Higher Music School, and the Magnitogorsk State Conservatory.

Due to the 2012 NHL lockout, Gonchar signed with the Kontinental Hockey League's Metallurg Magnitogorsk for the 2012-13 season.

During the 2004 – 05 NHL lockout, Gonchar returned to Russia to play for Metallurg Magnitogorsk, where he played with future Pittsburgh teammates Petr Sýkora and Evgeni Malkin.

For the 2009 – 10 season, Fedorov returned to his home country of Russia signing a 2-year deal with Magnitogorsk.

Fedorov presently resides in Magnitogorsk during hockey season and splits his summers between Detroit and Miami.

* Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works ( Магнитогорский металлургический комбинат ), one of Russia's largest steel companies.

Valery Aleskarov from Nizhnekamsk performed duties as goalkeeper, and Andrey Knyazev from Magnitogorsk played at the top.

Russian Superleague ( now KHL ) team AK Bars Kazan signed 11 NHL players, including Ilya Kovalchuk, Aleksey Morozov, and Vincent Lecavalier while Pavel Datsyuk played for HC Dynamo Moscow, Patrik Elias played for Czech HC JME Znojemští Orli and Russian Metallurg Magnitogorsk, and Czech superstar Jaromir Jagr played for HC Kladno and then Avangard Omsk.

*. magnitka. ru: Magnitogorsk