Megaprojects Magnitogorsk: The Soviet City Built from Scratch Posted: February 4, 2025 | Last updated: March 8, 2025 In the 1930s, the Soviet government decided it wanted to build a perfect modern ...

As Schlögel writes in his chapter on Magnitogorsk, ‘it is scarcely possible to conceive ... The disintegration of the Soviet Union was seen as surprisingly peaceful at the time. But it may be that the ...