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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°ECoordinates: 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 (2018)[5] | 1,468,833 (+8.8%) |
• 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 ![]() |
Postal code(s)[7] | 620000 |
Dialing code(s) | +7 343[7] |
City Day | 3rd Saturday of August |
Twin towns | San Jose, Ferentino, Plovdiv![]() |
OKTMO ID | 65701000001 |
Website | www |
Yekaterinburg is a big city in the Ural mountains in the Asian part of Russia. It has a population of 1,293,537 people. The city was started in 1723 by Vasily Tatischev and named after Saint Catherine.
Twin cities[change | change source]

The city duma building with the Lenin statue.
Yekaterinburg is a sister city of
- Pilsen, Czech Republic
- San Jose, California, U.S.A., since 1992
- Guangzhou, the People's Republic of China, since July 10 2002
- Genoa, Italy
- Ferentino, Italy
References[change | change source]
- ↑ Charter of Yekaterinburg, Article 24.1
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Official website of Yekaterinburg. Alexander Edmundovich Yakob, Head of Administration of the City of Yekaterinburg (Russian)
- ↑ "Стратегический план развития Екатеринбурга до 2015 года. Раздел II. Исходные конкурентные возможности Екатеринбурга. Внутренние факторы развития города". Archived from the original on 21 February 2014. Retrieved 8 February 2014. Cite uses deprecated parameter
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(help) - ↑ "Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1[[Category:Articles containing Russian-language text]]" [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1)]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года (2010 All-Russia Population Census) (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service. 2011. Retrieved June 29, 2012. Check date values in:
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(help); URL–wikilink conflict (help) - ↑ http://www.gks.ru/free_doc/doc_2018/bul_dr/mun_obr2018.rar; archive date: 26 July 2018; retrieved: 25 July 2018; archive URL: http://web.archive.org/web/20180726010024/http://www.gks.ru/free_doc/doc_2018/bul_dr/mun_obr2018.rar.
- ↑ "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). 3 June 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Ekaterinburg.com. General Information
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