Chelyabinsk — UN urban centre
Chelyabinsk: 794,411 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #666 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7269; territory: Russia (RUS). UN source workbook.
Method: Degree of Urbanisation (contiguous 1 km2 cells, density 1,500+ people/km2, total 50,000+). This is a source-defined urban centre, not a municipality or province. No association with a separate administrative entity is inferred from proximity or name.
Source centroid: 55.1584, 61.3986. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 956,960 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,003,494 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,014,132 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,000,899 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 917,472 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 856,308 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 801,708 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 809,964 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 807,241 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 808,462 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 794,411 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 784,775 | Projection |
| 2035 | 774,578 | Projection |
| 2040 | 766,330 | Projection |
| 2045 | 758,982 | Projection |
| 2050 | 750,409 | Projection |
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