Yekaterinburg
Екатеринбург | |
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Clockwise: City Administrative Building, Ural State College, Yekaterinburg City, Sevastyanov's House, Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center, Church of All Saints | |
Coordinates: 56°50′N 60°35′E / 56.833°N 60.583°E | |
Country | Russia |
Federal subject | Sverdlovsk Oblast |
Founded | 18 November 1723 |
City status since | 1796 |
Government | |
• Body | City Duma[1] |
• Head[2] | Alexander Vysokinskiy[2] |
Area | |
• Total | 495 km2 (191 sq mi) |
Elevation | 237 m (778 ft) |
Population | |
• Total | 1,349,772 |
• Estimate (2017)[5] | 1,488,791 |
• Rank | 4th in 2010 |
• Density | 2,700/km2 (7,100/sq mi) |
• Subordinated to | City of Yekaterinburg |
• Capital of | Sverdlovsk Oblast, City of Yekaterinburg |
• Urban okrug | Yekaterinburg Urban Okrug |
• Capital of | Yekaterinburg Urban Okrug |
Time zone | UTC+5 (MSK+2 [6]) |
Postal code(s)[7] | 620000 |
Dialing code(s) | +7 343[7] |
OKTMO ID | 65701000001 |
City Day | 3rd Saturday of August |
Twin towns | San Jose, Ferentino, Plovdiv, Wuppertal, Plzeň, Genoa, Guangzhou, Incheon, Gothenburg, Bishkek, Birmingham, Turin, Ho Chi Minh City |
Website | www |
Yekaterinburg (formerly named Sverdlovsk) is a big city in the Ural mountains in the Asian part of Russia. It is the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast. It has a population of 1,483,119 people. The city was started in 1723 by Vasily Tatischev and named after empress Catherine I who was the Peter the Great’s wife.