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Advantages of the region

As of 2021, among the Russian regions the Chelybinsk region ranks

  • 5thin terms of chicken eggs production
  • 6thin terms of manufacturing industries production
  • 9thin terms of meat and poultry production in live weight
  • 9thin terms of population
  • 10thin terms of general public paid services
  • 12thin terms of retail trade turnover
  • 12thin terms of housing commissioning
  • 13thin terms of exports
  • 19thin terms of investments in fixed assets
  • 21stin terms of  agricultural production

Every 4th ton of unalloyed steel, every 5th ton of rolled products, and every 5th kg of pasta are produced in the region

The gross regional product is mainly formed by

The major investments are in manufacturing industries (metallurgy and production of finished metal products, production of machinery and equipment), electricity, gas and water production, transport and communications, mining.

The region has more than 650 mineral deposits and unique facing stone and more than 200 mining and processing enterprises in the mining industry.


Main exports

2021 Foreign trade turnover amounted to 10,853.9 million USD, including exports of 7,332.8 million USD, imports - 3,521.1 million USD. In 2021, the share of the Chelyabinsk Region in the national exports amounted to 1.5%, in imports - 1.2%.


Exports structure

Ferrous and non-ferrous metals

80% of total exports

Mineral products

6.3% of total exports

Mechanical engineering products

5.4% of total exports

Consumer goods

2.6% of total exports

Wood and wood products

1% of total exports

Food products

2.6% of total exports

Chemical industry products

2.6% of total exports

Main imports

  • Mineral products 44.6% of total imports
  • Mechanical engineering products 29.2% of total imports
  • Metals and metal products13.9% of total imports
  • Chemical industry products4.5% of total imports
  • Consumer goods3% of total imports
  • Food products3,7% of total imports
  • Wood and wood products1.1% of total imports

Major imports from

  1. Kazakhstan
  2. China
  3. Republic of South Africa
  4. Uzbekistan

We work with

  • Kazakhstan
  • Turkey
  • China
  • Uzbekistan
  • Egypt
  • Kuweit
  • Belarus

Specialization of municipalities

  • Ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy, metalworking

    Chelyabinsk, Magnitogorsk, Zlatoust, Karabash city districts and Asha and Satka municipal districts

  • Mechanical engineering

    Chelyabinsk, Kopeysk, Miass, Zlatoust, Ust-Katav, Ozersk Trekhgorny, Kyshtym and Youzhno-Uralsk urban districts

  • Mining

    Plast, Verkhneuralsk, Etkul, and Agapovsk municipal districts and Bakalskoye urban settlement

  • Innovations

    Chelyabinsk, Magnitogorsk, Miass, Snezhinsk

Chelyabinsk region
in numbers

  • ~ 2 million

    employable population

  • > 60%

    industrial products are produced by the metallurgical complex

  • 5775.9 MW

    total capacity of power plants

  • > 200

    mining and processing enterprises

  • 150 million tons

    the reserve of copper-zinc ores in 9 deposits

  • 450

    sites for industrial
    production

  • 650

    deposits

  • 1.3 billion tons

    total iron ores reserves

  • 345 thousand m2

    A & B class warehouses

  • 3170

    lakes

  • 377

    reservoirs

  • 1 million hectares

    protected areas

  • 6

    nature reserves and
    national parks

  • 20

    ski resorts and centers