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3 unusual facts about Chelyabinsk Oblast


Chelyabinsky

Chelyabinsk Oblast (Chelyabinskaya oblast), a federal subject of Russia

Ignateva Cave

Ignateva Cave can be freely visited although it is best to travel via the small village of Serpiyevke, which is off the main road past Sim, Chelyabinsk Oblast heading eastwards, about 15 km.

Oleg Dolmatov

Oleg Vasilyevich Dolmatov (Russian: Олег Васильевич Долматов; born November 29, 1948 in Chelyabinsk-40) is a former Russian footballer and a current manager.


Ivan Sidorenko

After the war ended, Sidorenko retired from the Red Army, and settled down in Chelyabinsk Oblast, in the Ural Mountains, where he worked as the foreman of a coal mine.

Muhammed-Gabdulkhay Kurbangaliev

Born in 1889 in the village of Mediak in Chelyabinsk province, Orenburg Governorate (these days in the Argayashsky District, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia) to the family of the religious leader of a local Islamic community; his father Gabidulla Kurbangaliev was the local Imam khatib and a religious teacher who had a number of followers (Murids).


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