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  1. Industrial town and capital of Chelyabinsk
  2. region, W Siberia, USSR; population (1987)
  3. 1,119,000. It has iron and engineering works
  4. and makes chemicals, motor vehicles, and
  5. aircraft. It lies E of the Ural Mountains,
  6. 240 km/150 mi SE of Sverdlovsk. It was
  7. founded 1736 as a Russian frontier post.
  8.