Well endowed for heavy and metallurgical industries which get copper from central Ural, and calabash; iron ore from Nizhniy – tail and Magnitogorsk; and chromium from saran,
but does not have coking coal, which is brought by rail from Kasbahs, Karaganda coal fields.
UFA
· Situated in the western Ural region, has very productive oil fields.
· A major centre of oil refinery and petrochemical plants.
PERM
· Situated to the west of the Ural Mountains.
· Centre of oil refinery and petrochemical plants.
NIZHNI TAGIL
· Situated in the central Ural region has rich iron-ore reserves.
· Centre of heavy engineering and metallurgical industries.
MAGNITOGORSK
· Situated in the southern Ural region.
· Known for its high quality iron-ore reserve (magnetite) and iron – steel industry.
CHELYABINSK
· Famous for iron-steel and machine tools industry.
SURGUL, TOBOLSK
· Centre’s of oil refineries and petrochemical plants
· They are situated in the West Siberian Plain.
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