An industrial city in southern Russia feels the pinch of a declining global economy

The steel city of Magnitogorsk, built by Stalin in the 1930s as a Soviet version of Gary, Ind., is a company town of half a million residents by the Ural river. Now, like hundreds of other Russian cities dependent on metals, oil and gas, Magnitogorsk is starting to feel the collapse of world-commodity prices. This gallery offers a tour of the city and the people who live there.

 
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  • Posted By: marc_5464 @ 02/28/2009 11:42:25 AM

    If you seach for photos of poverty and despair perhaps you should take a stroll thru the ghettos of Washington D.C. only a short distance from the white house with your camera. Chances are you wont have a camera, or any other valuables when you leave

  • Posted By: marc_5464 @ 02/28/2009 11:41:03 AM

    If you seach for photos of poverty and despair perhaps you should take a stroll thru the ghettos of Washington D.C. only a short distance from the white house with your camera. Chances are you wont have a camera, or any other valuables when you leave

  • Posted By: Tom Paine1 @ 02/28/2009 10:50:24 AM

    From Moscow to London to Washington to Beijing and more, maybe workers around the world have far more in common with each other than with their incompetent, money grubbing, power hungry leaders in their corporate-sponsored governments. Workers arounfd the world need to try to build links with each other, instead of being fooled into conflicts by our so-called "leaders." Please don't censor this Newsweek.

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