Ekaterinburg - City Information
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The queen city of the Urals and a major city in the central part of Russia, Ekaterinburg is the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast. Ekaterinburg is the main industrial and cultural center of the Urals Federal District with a population of 1,350,100 (2010 Census) which makes it Russia's forth largets city.
The city was founded in 1723 by Vasily Tatischev and Georg Wilhelm de Genninnamed and named after St. Catherine, the saint in whose name Peter I's wife, Catherine I, was baptized. During the Soviet period this city's name was changed to the evermore romantic 'Sverdlovsk' (after the Bolshevik party leader Yakov Sverdlov), which remains the name of the region of which it serves as capital.
Ekaterinburg is connected with many memorable events in Russian history. After the Russian Revolution OF1918, Tsar Nicholas II, his wife, Alexandra, and their children were murdered by the Bolsheviks at the Ipatiev House in this city. During World War II, many government technical institutions and whole factories were relocated to Yekaterinburg away from the war-affected areas (mostly Moscow), with many of them staying in Yekaterinburg after the victory. The Hermitage Museum collections were also partly evacuated from Leningrad to Sverdlovsk in July 1941 and remained there until October 1945. During the 1991 coup d'état attempt, Sverdlovsk, the home city of President Boris Yeltsin, was selected by him as a reserve capital for the Russian Federation in the event that Moscow became too dangerous for the Russian government
Today it is a large industrial city, whose fast development started the 1930s when famous Uralmash was built. The main areas of the region's industry are machinery, metal processing, and ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy.
Yekaterinburg is a home to The Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and numerous scientific research institutes and establishments. With its 16 state-owned universities and educational academies, as well as a number of private higher education institutions (as of 2005), Yekaterinburg is considered the leading educational and scientific center of the Urals.
The city is an important railway junction on the Trans-Siberian Railway. Ural Airlines has its head office in Yekaterinburg.
Yekaterinburg is famous for its theaters, among which are some very popular theater companies: the Yekaterinburg Academic Ballet and Opera Company, the Sverdlovsk Academic Theater of Musical Comedy, the Yekaterinburg Academic Dramatic Theater, the Yekaterinburg Theater for Young Spectators, the Volkhonka.
A number of popular Russian rock bands, such as Urfin Dzhyus, Chaif, Chicherina, Nautilus Pompilius, Nastya, Trek, Agata Kristi and Smyslovye Gallyutsinatsii, were originally formed in Yekaterinburg. Yekaterinburg won the title of one the main centers of rock music in Russia. (Another is St. Petersburg.) Also, some famous opera singers - Boris Shtokolov, Yuri Gulyayev, Vera Bayeva - graduated from the Urals State Conservatory. The Ural Philharmonic Orchestra, located in Yekaterinburg, is also very popular in Russia and in Europe, as well as the Ural Academic Popular Chorus, a famous folk singing and dance ensemble.
Some of Yekaterinburg highlights include Sevastyanov Estate, Monument to Fathers-Founders of Ekaterinburg - Tatischev and DeHeninn at Historical Square and Iset river embankment, Square of Labor and Chapel of Saint Ekaterina, Square of Lovers, Opera and Ballet House, Rastorguev-Kharitonov Estate and its park, Traditional Wooden Architecture - Filits Estate, Museum of Stone or Ural Museum of Mineralogy and others.
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