Chelyabinsk is the name of a province and its capital city in west-central Russia. It covers an area of about 34,000 mi2 (88,060 km2) and has a population of about 3.6 million. Chelyabinsk city lies on the Miass River on the eastern side of the Ural...

Coordinates: 55°10′N 61°24′E / 55.167, 61.4 Chelyabinsk (Russian: Челя́бинск) is a city in Russia, located just to the east of the Ural Mountains, on Miass River. It is the administrative center of Chelyabinsk Oblast. Population:...

Aside from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the meltdown at Chernobyl is commonly regarded as the deadliest nuclear catastrophe in history. In fact that unhappy distinction belongs to another place in the former Soviet Union, a place called Chelyabinsk. Tucked behind...

"Down and Out in Chelyabinsk" is an excerpt from The Siberian Bachelor/The Further Notebooks of Yakov Marateck, Outlaw, which continues the picaresque saga recorded in The Samurai of Vishogrod (Jewish Publication Society, 1976). The story so far: Yakov M., a skeptical participant...

The leaders of Russia, China and Iran said Thursday that Central Asia should be left alone to manage its stability and security _ an apparent warning to the United States to avoid interfering in the strategic, resource-rich region.The veiled warning came at a meeting of...