The town’s growth advanced rapidly in the 1890s with the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railroad, which made Chelyabinsk a major junction in the southern Urals and a gateway to the east.

NPR's Anne Garrels followed developments in the "real Russia" in the 1990s from the provincial town of Chelyabinsk. Ten years ago, the Russian economy fell, and the remote industrial town faded ...

The Chelyabinsk meteorite lit up skies near the Russian town of 1 million on Feb. 15 Glass was shattered for 75 miles 1%2C619 people were injured by the shock wave it created The number of ...

The mayor of a town outside Chelyabinsk has resigned after a small riot last week in response to the murder of a local woman allegedly by a member of the Roma community. In a public statement, ...

Police in a town outside Chelyabinsk that witnessed rioting last month after a taxi driver’s murder have been conducting sweeps of “dense Roma settlements,” handing out dozens of citations for traffic ...

People look at what scientists believe to be a chunk of the Chelyabinsk meteor, recovered from Chebarkul Lake, about 1500 kilometers (930 miles) east of Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013.

10 years ago today, the Chelyabinsk meteor explosion showed why we need better methods of detecting and tracking near-Earth asteroids. On Feb. 15, 2013, Paul Chodas, manager of the Center for Near ...

MOSCOW, March 19 (Itar-Tass) – The meteor that slammed into the area of Chelyabinsk, an industrial city in the Urals, on a bright winter morning last month, was at least 289 mln years old, the ...