Online camera Kopeysk. Sutyagin Street, Kuznetsova Street (Chelyabinsk region).
Kopeysk, a city in Chelyabinsk Oblast in the south of the West Siberian Plain, borders Chelyabinsk in its southeastern part. Kopeysk is often referred to as a satellite city because of its proximity to Chelyabinsk. Forms the Kopeysk urban district. The fifth largest city in the Chelyabinsk region. The length from north to south is almost 60 kilometers. Population - 150383 people (2019). It is part of the agglomeration of Greater Chelyabinsk. The name comes from the word "dig, digging earth. In Russia, kopecks called pits, and with the beginning of mining mines, first open, and then mines.
History of Kopeysk goes back to 1736, when the fortress was built Chelyabinsk, which later became the city of Chelyabinsk. At the site of the current city in the XIX century there was a Cossack settlement Tugaykul. It served as a frontier post, and was located on the shore of the lake of the same name. The first documentary mention of the settlement Tugaykul is dated April 2, 1810.
