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Ural is a geographical region around the Ural Mountains
Ural Mountains

The Ural Mountains are a mountain range that runs roughly north and south through western Russia. They are usually considered as the natural boundary between Europe and Asia....
, mostly within Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
 but also including a part of northwestern Kazakstan. This is a historical, not an official entity, with the boundaries overlapping its western Volga and eastern Siberia
Siberia

Siberia , is the name given to the vast region constituting almost all of North Asia and for the most part currently serving as the massive central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, having served in the same capacity previously for the Soviet Union from its beginning, and the Russian Empire beginning in the 16th century....
 neighbor regions. At points in time, parts of the Urals were considered a gateway to Siberia
Siberia

Siberia , is the name given to the vast region constituting almost all of North Asia and for the most part currently serving as the massive central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, having served in the same capacity previously for the Soviet Union from its beginning, and the Russian Empire beginning in the 16th century....
, if not Siberia itself, or were combined with the Volga administrative divisions.






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Ural is a geographical region around the Ural Mountains
Ural Mountains

The Ural Mountains are a mountain range that runs roughly north and south through western Russia. They are usually considered as the natural boundary between Europe and Asia....
, mostly within Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
 but also including a part of northwestern Kazakstan. This is a historical, not an official entity, with the boundaries overlapping its western Volga and eastern Siberia
Siberia

Siberia , is the name given to the vast region constituting almost all of North Asia and for the most part currently serving as the massive central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, having served in the same capacity previously for the Soviet Union from its beginning, and the Russian Empire beginning in the 16th century....
 neighbor regions. At points in time, parts of the Urals were considered a gateway to Siberia
Siberia

Siberia , is the name given to the vast region constituting almost all of North Asia and for the most part currently serving as the massive central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, having served in the same capacity previously for the Soviet Union from its beginning, and the Russian Empire beginning in the 16th century....
, if not Siberia itself, or were combined with the Volga administrative divisions. At present time, there are two official namesake entities, the Urals Federal District
Urals Federal District

Urals Federal District is one of the seven Federal districts of Russia of Russia. It is the westernmost of the three Asia districts. Its population was 12,373,926 in the Russian Census , covering an area of 1,788,900 km? ....
 and the Urals economic region
Urals economic region

Urals economic region is one of twelve economic regions of Russia.The southern half of the Ural region has been a major center of Russian iron and steel production....
. While the latter follows the historical boundaries reasonably well, the former is purely a product of an imposed political will, as the District omits western Urals and includes western Siberia instead.

The historical center of Urals is Cherdyn
Cherdyn

Cherdyn is a town in Perm Krai, Russia. It is located at . Kolva River, Perm Krai flows by the town. Population: 5,756 .Local authorities advertise Cherdyn to tourists as the capital of the ancient Great Perm ....
, nowadays it is the small town in Perm Krai
Perm Krai

Perm Krai is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia that came into existence on December 1, 2005 as a result of the 2004 referendum on the merger of Perm Oblast and Komi-Permyak Okrug....
. Perm was an administrative center of the gubernia with the same name by 1797. The most territory of historical and modern Ural was included in Perm gubernia. The administrative center of Ural was moved to Sverdlovsk (nowadays Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg

Yekaterinburg is a major types of inhabited localities in Russia in the central part of Russia, the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast....
) after Revolution and Civil war. Nowadays Urals economic region
Urals economic region

Urals economic region is one of twelve economic regions of Russia.The southern half of the Ural region has been a major center of Russian iron and steel production....
 don't have a administrative and informal capital. Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg

Yekaterinburg is a major types of inhabited localities in Russia in the central part of Russia, the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast....
's mass media sometimes calls Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg

Yekaterinburg is a major types of inhabited localities in Russia in the central part of Russia, the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast....
 as the "capital" of the Urals, but nobody knows about that in Chelyabinsk
Chelyabinsk

Chelyabinsk is a types of inhabited localities in Russia in Russia, located just to the east of the Ural Mountains, on Miass River. It is the administrative center of Chelyabinsk Oblast....
, Perm
Perm

Perm is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and administrative center of Perm Krai, Russia. It is situated on the banks of the Kama River, in the European part of Russia near the Ural Mountains....
, Ufa
Ufa

Ufa is the capital of the Bashkortostan, Russia. Population: 1,021,500 ; 1,042,437 ....
 and other cities in the region. Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg

Yekaterinburg is a major types of inhabited localities in Russia in the central part of Russia, the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast....
 is administrative center only of the Urals Federal District
Urals Federal District

Urals Federal District is one of the seven Federal districts of Russia of Russia. It is the westernmost of the three Asia districts. Its population was 12,373,926 in the Russian Census , covering an area of 1,788,900 km? ....
.

Current administrative divisions and their affiliations

subdivision historic Urals Economic region Federal district
Bashkortostan Republic
Bashkortostan

The Republic of Bashkortostan or Bashkiria is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . It is located between the Volga River and the Ural Mountains....
 (Ufa
Ufa

Ufa is the capital of the Bashkortostan, Russia. Population: 1,021,500 ; 1,042,437 ....
) 		yes Urals Volga
Chelyabinsk Oblast
Chelyabinsk Oblast

Chelyabinsk Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . Its administrative center is the city of Chelyabinsk.Area: 87,900 km?; population: 3,603,339 ; 3,623,732 ....
 (Chelyabinsk
Chelyabinsk

Chelyabinsk is a types of inhabited localities in Russia in Russia, located just to the east of the Ural Mountains, on Miass River. It is the administrative center of Chelyabinsk Oblast....
) 		yes Urals Urals
Kurgan Oblast
Kurgan Oblast

Kurgan Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia of Kurgan, Kurgan Oblast....
 (Kurgan
Kurgan

Kurgan is the Russian language word for a tumulus, a type of burial mound or barrow, heaped over a burial chamber, often of wood.The distribution of such tumuli in Eastern Europe corresponds closely to the area of the Pit Grave or Kurgan culture in South-Eastern Europe....
) 		partly Urals Urals
Orenburg Oblast
Orenburg Oblast

Orenburg Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia of Orenburg....
 (Orenburg
Orenburg

Orenburg is a types of inhabited localities in Russia on the Ural River and the administrative center of Orenburg Oblast in the Volga Federal District of Russia....
) 		no Urals Volga
Perm Krai
Perm Krai

Perm Krai is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia that came into existence on December 1, 2005 as a result of the 2004 referendum on the merger of Perm Oblast and Komi-Permyak Okrug....
 (Perm
Perm

Perm is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and administrative center of Perm Krai, Russia. It is situated on the banks of the Kama River, in the European part of Russia near the Ural Mountains....
) 		mostly Urals Volga
Sverdlovsk Oblast
Sverdlovsk Oblast

Sverdlovsk Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia located in the Urals Federal District. Given that the bulk of the oblast lies on the Asian side of the Ural Mountains it should be recognized as the most populous oblast within Asian Russia....
 (Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg

Yekaterinburg is a major types of inhabited localities in Russia in the central part of Russia, the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast....
) 		no Urals Urals
Tyumen Oblast
Tyumen Oblast

Tyumen Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia of Tyumen. It has administrative jurisdiction over two autonomous okrugs, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug....
 (Tyumen
Tyumen

Tyumen is a types of inhabited localities in Russia in Urals Federal District in Russia, located on the Tura River east of Moscow. It is the administrative center and the largest city of Tyumen Oblast in the Urals Federal District....
) 		no West Siberia Urals
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug

Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug?Yugra , or Khantia-Mansia, is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . The people native to the region are the Khanty and the Mansi, known collectively as Ob Ugric people....
(Khanty-Mansisk) 		no West Sibera Urals
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug

Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug , or Yamalia, is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia .The Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug is the largest administrative division of Tyumen with an area 750,300 km?....
 (Salekhard
Salekhard

Salekhard is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and the administrative center of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia. It is believed to be the only town in the world that is located right on the Polar circle....
) 		no West Siberia Urals
Udmurt Republic
Udmurtia

Udmurt Republic or Udmurtia is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . The direct romanization of Russian of the Republic's Russian name is Udmurtskaya Respublika or Udmurtiya; Udmurt name: Udmurt Respublika....
 (Izhevsk
Izhevsk

Izhevsk , from 1985 to 1987?Ustinov , after Dmitry Ustinov, is the capital types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Udmurtia, Russia, located on the Izh River in the Western Ural Mountains area....
) 		no Urals Volga
West Kazakhstan (Oral, Ural'sk
Oral, Kazakhstan

Oral is a city in northwestern Kazakhstan, at the confluence of the Ural River and Chogan River Rivers close to the Russian border. As it is located on the western side of the Ural river, it is considered geographically in Europe....
) 		yes n/a n/a