1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Russia
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Chelyabinsk—1,202,371, Asia/Yekaterinburg, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: city in Russia, capital city of Chelyabinsk Oblast.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Chelyabinsk is GeoNames ID 1508291. Its recorded administrative path is Chelyabinskiy Gorodskoy Okrug → Chelyabinsk → Russia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Chelyabinsk occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2026-04-14; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Chelyabinsk ranks 440 by recorded population. Inside the 39 selected Russia entries it ranks 7; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 25. Its 1,202,371 population value is 1.85 times the 648,213 median for the country cohort and 1.81 times the 664,046 regional median. Chelyabinsk falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's Russia population cohort. Chelyabinsk's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Chelyabinsk's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Yekaterinburg at 195.27 km with 1,495,066 recorded people; Tyumen at 336.701 km with 768,358 recorded people; Ufa at 351.702 km with 1,120,547 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 156.432 km. Compared with Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk's recorded population is 0.80 times as large. Against Chelyabinsk, Yekaterinburg follows Sverdlovsk Oblast → Russia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses the shared Asia/Yekaterinburg identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Chelyabinsk's. Against Chelyabinsk, Tyumen follows Tyumen Oblast → Russia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses the shared Asia/Yekaterinburg identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Chelyabinsk's. Against Chelyabinsk, Ufa follows Bashkortostan Republic → Russia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses the shared Asia/Yekaterinburg identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Chelyabinsk's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 981 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Chelyabinsk's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 1508291, the coordinate pair 55.1611 / 61.4288, country rank 7 of 39, and neighbor GeoNames 1486209 at 195.27 km bind Chelyabinsk to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Chelyabinsk's reference point is 55.1611° north and 61.4288° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Yekaterinburg is shared by 6 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Chelyabinsk's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Chelyabinsk's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Chelyabinsk's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Chelyabinsk, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Chelyabinsk's closest other entries in this atlas are Yekaterinburg (195.27 km), Tyumen (336.701 km), Ufa (351.702 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-14; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.