Yekaterinburg

Yekaterinburg
Екатеринбург
City[1]
View of Yekaterinburg-City and the Iset River from Vysotsky Skyscraper
Church of All Saints
Sevastyanov's house
Main building of Ural Federal University
Summit Business Center and Yekaterinburg Circus
Flag of Yekaterinburg
Flag
Coat of arms
Coat of arms
Location of Yekaterinburg
Map
Yekaterinburg is located in Russia
Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg
Location of Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg is located in Sverdlovsk Oblast
Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk Oblast)
Coordinates: 56°50′08″N 60°36′46″E / 56.83556°N 60.61278°E / 56.83556; 60.61278
CountryRussia
Federal subjectSverdlovsk Oblast[1]
Founded18 November 1723[2]
City status since1781[3]
Government
 • BodyCity Duma[4]
 • Head[5]Alexey Orlov
Area
[6]
 • Total1,111 km2 (429 sq mi)
Elevation
237 m (778 ft)
Population
 (2010 Census)[7]
 • Total1,349,772
 • Estimate 
(2024)[8]
1,536,183
 • Rank4th in 2010
 • Density1,200/km2 (3,100/sq mi)
 • Subordinated toCity of Yekaterinburg[9]
 • Capital ofSverdlovsk Oblast,[1] City of Yekaterinburg
 • Urban okrugYekaterinburg Urban Okrug[10]
 • Capital ofYekaterinburg Urban Okrug[10]
Time zoneUTC+5 (MSK+2 Edit this on Wikidata[11])
Postal code(s)[12]
620000
Dialing code(s)+7 343[12]
OKTMO ID65701000001
City Day3rd Saturday of August
Websiteекатеринбург.рф

Yekaterinburg[a] is a city and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Ural Federal District, Russia. The city is located on the Iset River between the Volga-Ural region and Siberia, with a population of roughly 1.5 million residents,[14] up to 2.2 million residents in the urban agglomeration. Yekaterinburg is the fourth-largest city in Russia, the largest city in the Ural Federal District, and one of Russia's main cultural and industrial centres. Yekaterinburg has been dubbed the "Third capital of Russia", as it is ranked third by the size of its economy, culture, transportation and tourism.[15][16][17][18]

Yekaterinburg was founded on 18 November 1723 and named after the Orthodox name of Catherine I (born Marta Helena Skowrońska), the wife of Russian Emperor Peter the Great. The city served as the mining capital of the Russian Empire as well as a strategic connection between Europe and Asia. In 1781, Catherine the Great gave Yekaterinburg the status of a district town of Perm Province, and built the historical Siberian Route through the city.[3] Yekaterinburg became a key city to Siberia, which had rich resources. In the late 19th century, Yekaterinburg became one of the centres of revolutionary movements in the Urals. In 1924, after the Russian SFSR founded the Soviet Union, the city was renamed Sverdlovsk after the Bolshevik leader Yakov Sverdlov. During the Soviet era, Sverdlovsk was turned into an industrial and administrative powerhouse. On 23 September 1991 the city returned to its historical name.

Yekaterinburg is one of Russia's most important economic centres and was one of the host cities of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The city is currently experiencing an economic and population boom, which resulted in some of the tallest skyscrapers of Russia being located in the city. Yekaterinburg is home to the headquarters of the Central Military District of the Russian Armed Forces, as well as the presidium of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Yekaterinburg is famous for its constructivist architecture[19][20][21] and is also considered the "Russian capital of street art".[22][23][24]

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  3. ^ a b "Журнал "Родина": ОКНО В АЗИЮ". archive.is. 26 January 2013. Archived from the original on 26 January 2013. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  4. ^ Charter of Yekaterinburg, Article 24.1
  5. ^ Official website of Yekaterinburg. Alexander Edmundovich Yakob, Head of Administration of the City of Yekaterinburg Archived 12 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
  6. ^ "Проект о внесении изменений в Генеральный план развития городского округа – муниципального образования «город Екатеринбург» на период до 2025 года" (in Russian). p. 168.[permanent dead link‍]
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  8. ^ "Federal State Statistic Service". Government of Russia. 1 January 2024. Retrieved 6 June 2024.
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  11. ^ "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). 3 June 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  12. ^ a b "Срок регистрации домена закончился". www.ekaterinburg.com. Archived from the original on 21 January 2013. Retrieved 26 February 2022.
  13. ^ Upton, Clive; Kretzschmar, William A. Jr. (2017). The Routledge Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English (2nd ed.). Routledge. p. 1552. ISBN 978-1-138-12566-7.
  14. ^ "RUSSIA: Ural'skij Federal'nyj Okrug: Ural Federal District". City Population.de. 4 August 2020. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  15. ^ "Рейтинг столичных городов России от Фонда "Институт экономики города"". Urbaneconomics.ru.
  16. ^ Kolossov, Vladimir; Eckert, Denis (1 January 2007). "Russian regional capitals as new international actors: the case of Yekaterinburg and Rostov". Belgeo (1): 115–132. doi:10.4000/belgeo.11686.
  17. ^ "Central Asian Chapter by Eurasian Respiratory and Allergy Consortium". Era-cac.org. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
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  19. ^ "Конструктивизм. Жемчужина архитектуры Екатеринбурга". www.e1.ru (in Russian). 16 January 2018. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  20. ^ "Как Екатеринбург за 10 лет стал столицей конструктивизма". Strelka Mag (in Russian). Archived from the original on 5 March 2021. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  21. ^ Урал, Наш (19 May 2016). "Советская утопия: эпоха конструктивизма в Екатеринбурге". Наш Урал (in Russian). Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  22. ^ "Все кругом храпят, а Екатеринбург — пробужденный Когда уральский город объявил себя российской столицей стрит-арта, многие смеялись. А потом он стал ею". Meduza (in Russian). Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  23. ^ "Как Екатеринбург становится столицей стрит-арта". Российская газета (in Russian). 16 April 2019. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  24. ^ "Екатеринбург – столица стрит-арта. Часть первая". www.uralweb.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 3 March 2021. Retrieved 21 December 2021.


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