Parizh, Chelyabinsk Oblast

Eiffel Tower Replica in the village of Parizh, Russia

Parizh (russian: Пари́ж, for " Paris") is a village ('' selo'') in Nagaybaksky District of

Chelyabinsk Oblast Chelyabinsk Oblast (russian: Челя́бинская о́бласть, ''Chelyabinskaya oblast'') is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia in the Ural Mountains region, on the border of Europe and Asia. Its administrative center is the city ...

, Russia, located on the south border of the district. Population: 2,390 (1997 est.). It was established as a

Nağaybäk Nağaybäks (Nağaybäk pronounced in Tatar language ; Tatar plural: Nağaybäklär; plural in ) are an indigenous Turkic people in Russia recognized as a separate people under Russian legislation. The majority of the Nağaybäks live in the N ...

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settlement in 1842 and soon after was given its name to honor the Battle of Paris. Several other villages named for Russian victories in Napoleonic Wars are located nearby: Fershampenuaz (the administrative center of the district), Leyptsig, Berlin, and others. In 2005, an Eiffel Tower 1:5 replica was constructed in Parizh to serve as a

cellular network A cellular network or mobile network is a communication network where the link to and from end nodes is wireless. The network is distributed over land areas called "cells", each served by at least one fixed-location transceiver (typically thre ...

station. Rural localities in Chelyabinsk Oblast {{ChelyabinskOblast-geo-stub