Found some scary articles while researching the military training ground:
Article One-"During the Soviet industrialization of the 1930s, Chelyabinsk experienced a fast growth. Several industrial establishments, including the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant and the Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant, were built at this time. During World War II, Joseph Stalin decided to move a large part of Soviet factory production to places out of the way of the advancing German armies in late 1941. This brought new industries and thousands of workers to Chelyabinsk—still essentially a small city. Several enormous facilities for the production of T-34 tanks and Katyusha rocket launchers existed in Chelyabinsk, which became known as "Tankograd" (Tank City). Chelyabinsk was built essentially from scratch at this time. A small town existed before this, signs of which can be found in the centre of the city. The S.M. Kirov Factory no. 185 moved here from Leningrad to produce heavy tanks—it was transferred to Omsk after 1962.
One of the Chelyabinsk theatresA serious nuclear accident in 1957 at the Mayak nuclear fuel reprocessing plant, 150 km north-west of the city, caused deaths in Chelyabinsk Oblast but not in the city...The Mayak plant is associated with two other major nuclear accidents. The first occurred as a result of heavy rains causing a lake polluted with radioactive wastes to overflow into the Techa river, the second occurred when wind spread dust from the bottom of Lake Karachay, a dried-up radioactively polluted lake, over parts of Ozersk."
Article Two- A movie review about a documantary. see the follwing link
CHELYABINSK "The Most Contaminated Spot on the Planet" - a documentary film by Slawomir Grunberg - Log In Productions - distributed by LogTV LTD.
I am wondering if the Chinese troop should bring their NBC equipments with them.