Yamantau in the Ural Mountains, upon which some 20, 000 workers continue to labor to this day.
Beginning in the Russian capital, trains trundle their way through birch forests across the Ural Mountains to the town of Yekaterinburg.
Halstead ended up with 100 engineers at the Makeyev State Rocket Center in Miass, a city in Russia's Ural Mountains.
In a tiny flat in the Ural Mountains, Yulia Belyaeva and her 12-year-old daughter Irina are looking through family photos.
And on the same day, a 17m space rock exploded over Russia's Ural mountains with an energy of about 440 kilotonnes of TNT.
In the Ural Mountains, officials have threatened to confiscate children because a family's apartment is sparsely furnished, or the refrigerator is empty, one news site reported.
In February, prosecutors accused the director of Mayak, Russia's main waste processing plant in the Ural Mountains, of allowing tons of radioactive nuclear waste to flow into a nearby river.
Weeks recalls a trip to Ekaterinburg in the Ural Mountains in October 1996 when she had lunch at a tiny restaurant inside a woman's private apartment in a nondescript building.
In 2009, a fire in a packed nightclub in the Ural Mountains city of Perm killed more than 100 people, leading to widespread checks of safety-rules by fire inspection teams around Russia.
Footage of the meteor in Russia's Ural mountains on 15 February and the air crash at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport in December 2012 has highlighted the growing use of dashboard cameras in Russia.
After a surprising meteor shower sent meteorites crashing on sonic speeds in the Ural mountains of Russia, injuring thousands, the Russian military said Wednesday it will develop technology to shoot them down before the hit Earth.
It had seemed like a good idea for two enterprising young students in the Ural Mountains to open a cafe, call it "Putin" and offer a selection of food dedicated to the Russian president, including Putin biscuits, Putin milkshakes and Kremlin drinks.
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