EXAMINE THIS REPORT ON RUSSISCH BLAU

It is a vital footballing location, with teams like Gelsenkirchen’s Schalke and Borussia Dortmund numbered One of the country’s most prosperous. In recent years the Ruhr has also burnished its cultural credentials. Rather than demolish and ignore its redundant steelworks and mines, the Ruhr reinvented them as design centres, art galleries or mu