relatively severe winters for the latitude. This climate type is typical for southerly Russian areas far from large bodies of water. The average July high is around with lows of with January averages ranging from in daytime high to in average low. Temperatures approaching or above have been measured from May to September with real severe frosts below have been measured in all other months than that except transitional months April and October. Demographics Ethnic composition (2010):. Twin towns – sister cities Magnitogorsk is twinned with: Atyrau, Kazakhstan Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany Daugavpils, Latvia Gomel, Belarus Huai'an, China References Notes Sources Scott, John, Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel, Indiana University Press, 1989. Degtyarev A. G., Letopis' gory Magnitnoy i goroda Magnitogorska, 1993. Kotkin, Stephen. Steeltown, USSR:Soviet Society in the Gorbachev Era Kotkin, Stephen, Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization. Further reading Kotkin, Stephen Steeltown, USSR date 1991. Publisher U. of California Press. External links Official Magnitogorsk Administration Site http://www.dialogpress.ru/ Magnitogorsk Main News http://macalester.edu/courses/geog61/aritz/magnitogorsk.html Macalester College site about Magnitogorsk Magnitogorsk and Vicinity (Abzakovo, Bannoye) The Soviet Steel City at Magnitogorsk Magnitogorsk Photos Cities and towns in Chelyabinsk Oblast Cities and towns built in the Soviet Union Transcontinental cities Populated places established in 1743