Yekaterinburg Екатеринбург | |
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The skyline o Yekaterinburg | |
Coordinates: 56°50′N 60°35′E / 56.833°N 60.583°ECoordinates: 56°50′N 60°35′E / 56.833°N 60.583°E | |
Kintra | Roushie |
Federal subject | Sverdlovsk Oblast |
Foondit | 18 November 1723 |
Govrenment | |
• Bodi | Ceety Duma |
• Head[1] | Yevgeny Porunov[1] |
Area | |
• Total | 468.0 km2 (180.7 sq mi) |
Elevation | 237 m (778 ft) |
Population | |
• Total | 1,350,136 |
• Rank | 4t in 2010 |
• Density | 2,900/km2 (7,500/sq mi) |
• Caipital o | Sverdlovsk Oblast |
• Urban okrug | Yekaterinburg Urban Okrug |
Time zone | UTC+5 ([3]) |
Postal code(s)[4] | 620000 |
Dialin code(s) | +7 343 |
Ceety Day | 3rd Seturday o August |
Twin touns | San Jose, Plovdiv, Wuppertal, Plzeň, Genoa, Guangzhou, Incheon, Gothenburg, Bishkek, Birmingham, Turin, Ho Chi Minh Ceety![]() |
OKTMO ID | 65701000001 |
Website | www |
Yekaterinburg (Roushie: Екатеринбу́рг, romanizit as Ekaterinburg an aw) is the fowert-lairgest ceety in Roushie wi a population o 1,398,889 (2012). It is situatit in the middle o the Eurasie continent, on the mairch o Europe an Asie.[5][6]
Yekaterinburg is the admeenistrative centre o Sverdlovsk Oblast an the main industrial an cultural center o the Ural Federal Destrict. Atween 1924 an 1991, the ceety wis namit Sverdlovsk (Свердло́вск) efter the Communist pairty leader Yakov Sverdlov.
Internationally Yekaterinburg is best kent as a ceety whaur the last Roushie Tsar Nicholas II an his family wur executit in 1918.