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ID: 7010190 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7010190			Record Type: administrative

Magnitogorsk (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 53 27 00 N degrees minutes			Lat: 53.4500 decimal degrees
Long: 059 04 00 E degrees minutes			Long: 59.0667 decimal degrees

Note: Located on both banks of Ural River, which is dammed to form two reservoirs within the city; site of one of world's largest iron- & steelworks; other industries include glass, cement, clothing & footwear; site of teacher-training & mining institutes.

Names:

Magnitogorsk (preferred,C,V,O)

Magnetogorsk (C,U)

Магнитогорск (C,U,Russian-P)

Hierarchical Position:

World (facet)

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Asia (continent) (P)

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Russia (nation) (P)

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Chelyabinsk Oblast (oblast) (P)

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Magnitogorsk (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:

inhabited place (preferred, C)	............	founded as an iron-ore center for nearby Mount Magnitnaya in 1929
city (C)
industrial center (C)
manufacturing center (C)
mining center (C)
educational center (C)

Sources and Contributors:

Магнитогорск..........	[VP]
.......................	NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2950121

Magnetogorsk..........	[VP]
.......................	NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2950121

Magnitogorsk..........	[VP Preferred]
.......................	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 687
.......................	NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2950121
.......................	Times Atlas of the World (1994) 119

Subject: .....	[VP]
..................	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 687
..................	NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2950121
..................	Times Atlas of the World (1994) 119


Note:
English	..........	[VP]

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