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Chelyabinsk
City in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia

Chelyabinsk

Chelyabinsk is the administrative center and largest city of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia.

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It is the seventh-largest city in Russia, with a population of over 1.1 million people, and the second-largest city in the Ural Federal District, after Yekaterinburg. Chelyabinsk is located to the east behind the south part of the Ural Mountains and runs along the Miass River.

Get in

Getting to Chelyabinsk

  1. 01
    Chelyabinsk
See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    State Historical Museum of the South Urals
  2. 02
    Chelyabinsk Museum of Art

    Ulitsa Truda, 92А.

  3. 03
    Monument to Kurchatov
Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Chelyabinskiy Zoopark

    Ulitsa Truda, 191,.

  2. 02
    Gagarin Park or Park Imeni Yuriya Gagarina

    Heavily-forested park where you can enjoy taking a walk.

  3. 03
    Uralskaya Lightning Ice Palace

    Big European class ice skating rink operating year-round.

  4. 04
    SUSU Sports Complex

    South Ural State University 60, Sony Krivoy street,.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Farfor

    Pizza, rolls, sushi, assorted sets, Japanese soups, salads, desserts, main dishes and drinks.

  2. 02
    Restaurant Rodnya

    A pretty Russian-representative dining experience.

How locals move

Getting around Chelyabinsk the local way

  • Get inChelyabinsk airport serves regular flights to Düsseldorf, Dushanbe, Yerevan, Khujand, Vienna, Harbin, Dubai and charter flights to Antalya, Rimini, Bangkok.
  • Get inA ticket costs approximately $0.40 Small city buses with stops on demand ("marshrutkas") line 82 to the railway station.
  • Get aroundMarshrutka is a very convenient means of transportation.
  • Get aroundMarshrutka can be considered as a shared taxi but it follows a certain route.
  • Get aroundAll marshrutkas have route numbers painted on them.
  • Get aroundIf you want to take marshrutka, stay at the right place (a bus stop) and hitch by stretching your hand.
  • Get aroundThis sounds as an inconvenience but as soon as you get accustomed to marshrutkas, you appreciate them.
  • Get aroundThe transport network covers all the city and surroundings, the speed of a marshrutka is comparably high (much higher than one of buses as it doesn't stop at every bus stop) and the number of vehicle is tremendously big.

From Wikivoyage: Chelyabinsk, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-03.

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