Chelyabinsk's city centre holds more than its industrial reputation suggests. The Kirovka pedestrian street is the social heart — lined with Soviet-era buildings, quirky bronze sculptures, and pavement cafés. The city's cultural institutions are serious: an opera and ballet theatre of genuine quality, regional museums including the star attraction of the 2013 meteor fragment, and a tractor plant that shaped twentieth-century history. Ice hockey is the city's great sporting passion — a Traktor HC home match at the Traktor Ice Arena is as much a cultural experience as a sporting one.