If you'd like to learn more, this is a good book on Magnitogorsk during the Gorbachev years. http://www.amazon.com/Steeltown-USSR-Soviet-Society-Gorbachev/dp/0

If you'd like to learn more, this is a good book on Magnitogorsk during the Gorbachev years. http://www.amazon.com/Steeltown-USSR-Soviet-Society-Gorbachev/dp/0520073541 http://www.amazon.com/Steeltown-USSR-Soviet-Society-Gorbache... It's really heartrending to read - all that talent and natural resources wasted just to say they met their planned quota.