Karabash is a typical Russian single-industry town that has grown up around a metallurgical plant and lives while production is alive. The 20th century was for Karabash a century of labor exploits and ruthless depletion of nature, social development and sudden decline, when once powerful enterprises were closed together with the Soviet Union. How Karabash lived, died and was reborn, where did the bad fame of this city come from and how it rose from the ashes.