Photographs by Igor Starkov / KARTA for Newsweek
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.
