The city's coat of arms can tell a lot about him, or maybe confuse someone who is not familiar with heraldry .Here, for example, is depicted standing on a green earth near a silver stone wall a golden camel with a load of .What kind of city is not clear .And we are talking about Chelyabinsk, located in the south of the Ural Federal District .Green land means the abundance of the edge, the wall indicates that once the city grew out of the fortress, gold color and luggage symbolize the wealth of the city and success in trade matters, but the camel-worker is chosen because the Urals is already Asia .

How to get to Chelyabinsk

To get into this Ural city, called the Tankograd in the 40s of the 20th century, it is possible with the help of different types of transport .The fastest one is air .The airport "Chelyabinsk" also used to have a different name, "Balandino", because it is located 2 km from the village with the same name .He accepts flights from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Norilsk, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Sochi, Kazan, Gelendzhik, Anapa, Krasnodar .The airport receives international flights from Tajikistan, Armenia, charter flights from Spain, Turkey, Greece and Thailand are operated .In the future, it is planned to expand the coverage of foreign countries .

To the city from the airport you can take the bus number 1 (goes through the railway station, the penultimate stop), 2, 41, 45 and by shuttle bus number 82 (travel 25 rubles, also goes through the railway station).

By train

The railway directly connects Chelyabinsk with Moscow, St. Petersburg, Adler, Kislovodsk, Tynda, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Ufa, Yekaterinburg, Vladivostok and many other cities of Russia. From somewhere you can get there with transfers or in special trailer wagons, as it is done in trains Samara-Novy Urengoy, Nazran-Petropavlovsk.

Direct train from the capital goes to the place of destination 42 hours or 35, if it's a corporate fast "South Ural", the ticket for which costs 2827-3979 Russian rubles, depending on the class of the car. The fare in the ordinary train is less, from 1203 rubles for a sitting place, 1761 for a reserved seat and 2 802 for a place in a compartment. Trains arrive at the railway station of the city, located on the square. Railway station, 1. There are electric trains from the cities of the Chelyabinsk region.

By bus

The bus stations in the city are two, Severny, at ul. Kyshtymskaya, 30, and South on the street. Stepan Razin, 9. They daily serve road races from different cities and towns of the region, as well as from other populated areas of the Russian Federation: Ekaterinburg, Izhevsk, Magnitogorsk, Perm, Tyumen. There are buses even to the resorts of the Caucasus and to Kazakh Kustanay.

Climate

March 1, Sunday Clear +3 ° С a day -13 ° C at night ° С water	2 March, Monday Clear +1 ° C in the afternoon -12 ° C at night ° С water	March 3, Tuesday Clear +1 ° C in the afternoon -13 ° C at night ° С water
Weather forecast for Chelyabinsk for 10 days

Orientation and movement in the city

Chelyabinsk is a large industrial city with a population of over one million people. To provide residents and visitors of the city with free movement on its territory, trams, trolley buses, buses and shuttles are involved. In the summer, in the summer period, 28 special routes are added to the nearest neighborhoods of the city. In addition, work is underway to build the metro. The administration of Chelyabinsk is optimistic and announces the opening of the subway in 2012.

Cuisine and restaurants of Chelyabinsk

To list all places of public catering of such a big city is simply unreal. So do not try and embrace the immensity, it is better just to listen to the opinion of local residents. They often praise the Pizzeria pizzeria (Stepan Razin st., 2, Komarova st., 127a) Vesta Pizza (Lenin Avenue, 69, Sverdlovskiy Avenue 31), Three Oranges (Marchenko Street, 13c), "Venice" (Zwilling Street, 81).

Fast food fans should pay attention to the "Pancake Street" and the bistro "Podzemka."

Shopping and shopping

Many-story shopping and entertainment complexes, where everyone will find something to do to taste, in Chelyabinsk a lot. Among them, "Focus" on the street. Moldovan, 16, Verona (Molodogvardeytsev Str., 33b), Gorki (Artillery Street, 136), Koltso (Darwin Street, 18), Sinegorye (Stepan Razin St., 9, next to bus terminal) and many others.

But the dome of only one of them, located on the banks of the Miass River, became a kind of symbol of the city. This "shopping center" on the street. Kaslinskaya, 64, built in 1975. Since then, under its huge, more hectare, a spherical dome of reinforced concrete boils commercial life, in which all lovers of quality shopping dive with pleasure.

Entertainment, excursions and sights of Chelyabinsk

The main street of the city for all tourists and residents of Chelyabinsk is the pedestrian street of Kirov. It is called the local Arbat or, almost familiarly, Kirovka. It has a lot of cafes and restaurants, the zero kilometer of the city, from which the distance to other cities begins, wonderful bronze sculptures. For example, a professional beggar, who needs to throw a coin and pat on the bald head, so that the wish come true. The bald patch is polished to a shine ...

Here you can admire the Holy Trinity Church, visit the art gallery or take a walk around Kirovka on the way to the local academic drama theater. Or a little farther to listen to music in the Organ Hall (the park Aloe Pole, the building of the former church of Alexander Nevsky). Music is heard in the theater of opera and ballet, the circus, puppet theater and the Theater for Young Spectators are waiting for young spectators, and the older theater for the modern dance, the theater "Maneken" and others.

Many visitors and museums of the city are waiting for visitors: local lore, applied art of the Urals, railway engineering, geology and postal service .They are forced to stop near themselves monuments and memorial complexes of the city, such as "Orlyonok", "Tale of the Urals" or "Sphere of Love" .And what kind of nature is here! A lot of excellent parks, not far from the center is Lake Smolino, away from it lakes First, Second and Sineglazovo .Within the boundaries of the city is the Shershnevo Reservoir, the Miass River flows .There is where to take a walk in the summer and go skiing in winter - after all, Chelyabinsk is good at any time of the year . Photo of Chelyabinsk (29)