Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works
1932 - Operational
Overview
Stalins showcase steel city in the southern Urals, planned with American engineering input as a socialist mirror of Pittsburgh. Blast furnaces blew in during the chaos of the first five year plan, and in WWII the steel rolled out east of the front lines. It still makes steel at scale.
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