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
