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Yekaterinburg (also romanized
Romanization of Russian

Romanization of the Russian alphabet is the process of transliteration the Russian language from the Cyrillic alphabet into the Latin alphabet. Such transliteration is necessary for writing Russian names and other words in the alphabet of one's own language....
 Ekaterinburg, formerly Sverdlovsk) is a major city in the central part of Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
, the administrative center of 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....
. Situated on the eastern side of the Ural mountain range
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....
, it is the main industrial
Industry

An industry is the manufacturing of a Good or Service within a category. Although industry is a broad term for any kind of economic production, in economics and urban planning industry is a synonym for the secondary sector, which is a type of economic activity involved in the manufacturing of raw materials into goods and products....
 and cultural
Culture

Culture is difficult to define. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions....
 center 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? ....
. Its population of which is down from 1,364,621 recorded in the 1989 Census
Soviet Census (1989)

The 1989 Soviet Census was the final and most comprehensive Soviet Census taken within the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics....
, makes it Russia's fifth largest city. Between 1924 and 1991, the city was known as
Geographical renaming

Geographical renaming is the act of changing the Geonym of a geography feature or area. This can range from the uncontroversial change of a street name to a highly disputed change to the name of a country....
 Sverdlovsk , after the Bolshevik
Bolshevik

Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists were a faction of the Marxism Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the 2nd Congress of the RSDLP in 1903 and ultimately became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union....
 leader Yakov Sverdlov
Yakov Sverdlov

Yakov Mikhaylovich Sverdlov ; known under pseudonyms "Andrei", "Mikhalych", "Max", "Smirnov", "Permyakov" – March 16 1919) was a Bolshevik party leader and an official of the RSFSR....
.

History
The city
City

A city is an urban area with a high population density and a particular administrative, legal, or historical status.Large industrialized cities generally have advanced systems for sanitation, utilities, land usage, house, and transportation and more....
 was founded in 1723 by Vasily Tatischev and named after Saint Catherine, the namesake of Tsar
Tsar

Tsar or czar , occasionally spelled csar or tzar in English language, is a slavs term designating certain monarchs.Originally, the title Czar meant Emperor in the European medieval sense of the term, that is, a ruler who has the same rank as a Ancient Rome or Byzantine emperor due to recognition by another emperor or...
 Peter the Great
Peter I of Russia

Peter I the Great or Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov ruled Russia and later the Russian Empire from until his death, jointly ruling before 1696 with his weak and sickly half-brother, Ivan V of Russia....
's wife Empress Catherine I
Catherine I of Russia

Ekaterina I Alexeyevna , the second wife of Peter I of Russia, functioned as co-ruler with her husband from 1724 until his death early in the next year, and reigned as sole Empress of Russia from 1725 until her death....
 (Yekaterina).






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Yekaterinburg (also romanized
Romanization of Russian

Romanization of the Russian alphabet is the process of transliteration the Russian language from the Cyrillic alphabet into the Latin alphabet. Such transliteration is necessary for writing Russian names and other words in the alphabet of one's own language....
 Ekaterinburg, formerly Sverdlovsk) is a major city in the central part of Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
, the administrative center of 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....
. Situated on the eastern side of the Ural mountain range
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....
, it is the main industrial
Industry

An industry is the manufacturing of a Good or Service within a category. Although industry is a broad term for any kind of economic production, in economics and urban planning industry is a synonym for the secondary sector, which is a type of economic activity involved in the manufacturing of raw materials into goods and products....
 and cultural
Culture

Culture is difficult to define. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions....
 center 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? ....
. Its population of which is down from 1,364,621 recorded in the 1989 Census
Soviet Census (1989)

The 1989 Soviet Census was the final and most comprehensive Soviet Census taken within the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics....
, makes it Russia's fifth largest city. Between 1924 and 1991, the city was known as
Geographical renaming

Geographical renaming is the act of changing the Geonym of a geography feature or area. This can range from the uncontroversial change of a street name to a highly disputed change to the name of a country....
 Sverdlovsk , after the Bolshevik
Bolshevik

Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists were a faction of the Marxism Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the 2nd Congress of the RSDLP in 1903 and ultimately became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union....
 leader Yakov Sverdlov
Yakov Sverdlov

Yakov Mikhaylovich Sverdlov ; known under pseudonyms "Andrei", "Mikhalych", "Max", "Smirnov", "Permyakov" – March 16 1919) was a Bolshevik party leader and an official of the RSFSR....
.

History


The city
City

A city is an urban area with a high population density and a particular administrative, legal, or historical status.Large industrialized cities generally have advanced systems for sanitation, utilities, land usage, house, and transportation and more....
 was founded in 1723 by Vasily Tatischev and named after Saint Catherine, the namesake of Tsar
Tsar

Tsar or czar , occasionally spelled csar or tzar in English language, is a slavs term designating certain monarchs.Originally, the title Czar meant Emperor in the European medieval sense of the term, that is, a ruler who has the same rank as a Ancient Rome or Byzantine emperor due to recognition by another emperor or...
 Peter the Great
Peter I of Russia

Peter I the Great or Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov ruled Russia and later the Russian Empire from until his death, jointly ruling before 1696 with his weak and sickly half-brother, Ivan V of Russia....
's wife Empress Catherine I
Catherine I of Russia

Ekaterina I Alexeyevna , the second wife of Peter I of Russia, functioned as co-ruler with her husband from 1724 until his death early in the next year, and reigned as sole Empress of Russia from 1725 until her death....
 (Yekaterina). The official date of the city foundation, however, is November 18, 1723. The city was named Sverdlovsk after the Bolshevik
Bolshevik

Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists were a faction of the Marxism Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the 2nd Congress of the RSDLP in 1903 and ultimately became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union....
 party leader and Soviet
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
 official Yakov Sverdlov
Yakov Sverdlov

Yakov Mikhaylovich Sverdlov ; known under pseudonyms "Andrei", "Mikhalych", "Max", "Smirnov", "Permyakov" – March 16 1919) was a Bolshevik party leader and an official of the RSFSR....
 from 1924 to 1991.

Soon after the Russian Revolution
Russian Revolution of 1917

The Russian Revolution is the series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union....
, on July 17, 1918, Tsar Nicholas II
Nicholas II of Russia

Nicholas II was the last Tsar of Russian Empire, Grand Prince of Finland, and claimant to the title of King of Poland. His official title was Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias and he is currently regarded as Saint Nicholas the Passion Bearer by the Russian Orthodox Church....
, his wife, Alexandra, and their children Grand Duchesses Olga
Grand Duchess Olga of Russia

Grand Duchess Olga of Russia can refer to:...
, Tatiana, Maria
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia

Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia was the third daughter of Nicholas II of Russia and Alexandra of Hesse. Her murder following the Russian Revolution of 1917 resulted in her canonization as a passion bearer by the Russian Orthodox Church....
, Anastasia, and Tsarevich Alexei were executed by Bolshevik
Bolshevik

Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists were a faction of the Marxism Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the 2nd Congress of the RSDLP in 1903 and ultimately became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union....
s at the Ipatiev House
Ipatiev House

Ipatiev House was a merchant's house in Yekaterinburg where the former Emperor Nicholas II of Russia and several members of his family and household were executed following the Bolshevik Revolution....
 in this city. In 1977 the Ipatiev House was destroyed by order of Boris Yeltsin
Boris Yeltsin

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999.Yeltsin came to power with a wave of high expectations....
 who later became the first President of the Russian Federation
President of the Russian Federation

The President of the Russian Federation is the head of state, Commander-in-chief and holder of the highest office within the Government of Russia of Russia....
.

In the 1920s, Yekaterinburg became a large industrial center of Russia. It was the time when the famous Uralmash
Uralmash

Uralmash is a heavy machine production facility of the Russian engineering corporation OMZ. The facility is located in Yekaterinburg, Russia. The surrounding residential area where workers live is also called Uralmash....
 was built, becoming the biggest heavy machinery factory in Europe. During World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
, 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 Ekaterinburg after the victory. The Hermitage Museum
Hermitage Museum

The State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia is one of the largest museums in the world, with 3 million works of art , and one of the oldest art gallery and museums of human history and culture in the world....
 collections were also partly evacuated from Leningrad
Leningrad

Leningrad is the former name of Saint Petersburg, Russia.Leningrad may also refer to:* Leningrad Oblast, a federal subject of Russia* Soviet helicopter carrier Leningrad, of the Soviet Navy...
 to Sverdlovsk in July 1941 and remained there until October 1945.

In the 1960s, in the days of Khruschev's government, a number of lookalike five-story apartment blocks sprung up all over the city. Most of them still remain today in Kirovsky, Chkalovsky, and other residential area
Residential area

Within a urban area there is a tendency for land uses to aggregate. A residential area is a land use in which the predominant use is housing.Housing may vary significantly between, and through, residential areas....
s of Yekaterinburg.

On May 1, 1960 an American U-2
Lockheed U-2

The Lockheed Corporation U-2, nicknamed "Dragon Lady", is a single-engine, high-altitude aircraft flown by the United States Air Force and previously flown by the Central Intelligence Agency....
 spy plane, piloted by Francis Gary Powers while under the employ of the CIA
Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian intelligence agency of the Federal government of the United States. It is the successor of the Office of Strategic Services formed during World War II to coordinate espionage activities between the branches of the US military services....
, was shot down over Sverdlovsk Oblast. The pilot was captured, put on trial, and found guilty of espionage
Espionage

Espionage or spying involves an individual obtaining information that is considered secrecy or confidential without the permission of the holder of the information....
. He was sentenced to seven years of hard labour, though he served only about a year before being exchanged for Rudolph Abel
Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher

Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher was a noted Soviet Union intelligence officer. He is generally better known by the pseudonym Rudolf Abel, which he adopted on his arrest....
, a high-ranking KGB
KGB

KGB is the Russian language abbreviation of Committee for State Security , which was the official name of the umbrella organization serving as the Soviet Union's premier security agency, secret police, and intelligence agency, from 1954 to 1991....
 spy, who had been apprehended in the United States in 1957. The two spies were exchanged at the Glienicke Bridge
Glienicke bridge

The Glienicke bridge is a bridge in Berlin which spans the Havel River to connect the cities of Potsdam and Berlin near Klein Glienicke. It was completed in 1907....
 in Potsdam
Potsdam

Potsdam is the capital city of the Germany States of Germany of Brandenburg and is part of the Metropolitan area of Berlin/Brandenburg. It is situated on the River Havel, some 25 kilometres southwest of the center of Berlin....
, Germany, on February 10, 1962. Since the end of World War II, the Glienicke Bridge was the most popular captive-trading place when the west
Western world

The term Western world, the West or the Occident can have multiple meanings dependent on its context . Accordingly, the basic definition of what constitutes "the West" varies, expanding and contracting over time, in relation to various historical circumstances....
 and the east
Eastern bloc

During the Cold War, the terms Eastern Bloc, Communist Bloc or Soviet Bloc were used to refer to European annexed or expanded Soviet Socialist Republics of the USSR and Satellite state states, including members of the Soviet-dominated organizations Comecon and the Warsaw Pact....
 felt it necessary to negotiate.

There was an anthrax outbreak
Outbreak

Outbreak is a term used in epidemiology to describe an occurrence of disease greater than would otherwise be expected in a particular time and place....
 in Yekaterinburg (then Sverdlovsk) in April and May 1979, which was attributed by Soviet officials to the locals eating contaminated meat
Meat

In modern English usage, meat most often refers to animal biological tissue used as food, mostly skeletal muscle and associated fat, but it may also refer to offal, including livers, skin, brains, bone marrow, kidneys, in some countries lungs, and a variety of other internal organs as well as blood....
. However, American agencies believe that the locals inhaled spore
Spore

In biology, a spore is a reproduction structure that is adapted for biological dispersal and surviving for extended periods of time in unfavorable conditions....
s accidentally released from an aerosol
Particulate

Particulates, alternatively referred to as particulate matter or fine particles, are tiny particles of solid or liquid suspended in a gas or liquid....
 of pathogen
Pathogen

A pathogen , infectious agent, or germ, is a biological agent that causes disease or illness to its Host .There are several substrates and pathways whereby pathogens can invade a host; the principal pathways have different episodic time frames, but soil contamination has the longest or most persistent potential for harboring...
 at a military microbiology
Microbiology

Microbiology is the study of microorganisms, which are unicellular or cell-cluster microscopic organisms. This includes eukaryote such as fungi and protists, and prokaryotes, which are bacteria and archaea....
 facility. Dr. Kanatjan Alibekov's account of the Sverdlovsk anthrax leak
Sverdlovsk anthrax leak

The Sverdlovsk anthrax leak is an incident when spores of anthrax were accidentally released from a military facility in the city of Sverdlovsk 900 miles east of Moscow on April 2, 1979....
 in his book Biohazard
Biohazard (book)

Biohazard, subtitled The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World - Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It, is the title of a 1999 book by former Soviet Union biological warfare researcher Kanatjan Alibekov that purports to expose the former Soviet Union's extensive covert biological weap...
 agrees with the American agencies' view. In 1994, a team of independent American researchers lead by Matthew Meselson
Matthew Meselson

Matthew Stanley Meselson is an American geneticist and molecular biologist whose research was important in showing how DNA replication, recombination and is DNA repair in cells....
 concluded based on a number of sources of evidence that it was conclusive that the illnesses were a result of an anthrax release from the Sverdlovsk-19 military facility.

Geography and climate

Yekaterinburg is situated in Asia, 1,667 km (1,036 miles) east of Moscow, on the eastern side of 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....
 on the Iset
Iset River

Iset River is a river in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Kurgan Oblast, and Tyumen Oblasts in Russia. It is a left tributary of the Tobol River. The length of the Iset River is 606 km....
 river. It is surrounded by forests, mainly taiga
Taiga

Taiga is a biome characterized by coniferous forests. Covering most of inland Alaska, Canada, Sweden, Finland, inland Norway and Russia , as well as parts of the extreme northern continental United States , northern Kazakhstan and Japan , the taiga is the world's largest terrestrial biome....
, and small lakes. The winter lasts for about 5 months — from November until the middle of April — and the temperature may fall to minus 45 degrees Celsius ( minus 49 Fahrenheit), though rarely lower than minus 20 to minus 25 degrees Celsius (minus 4 to minus 13 Fahrenheit). The summer on the Urals is short and lasts an average of 65-70 days with an average temperature of 18 degrees Celsius (64 degrees Fahrenheit). Due to the city's location "behind" the mountain range and different winds, the weather is quite changeable from day to day and from year to year.

Economy and education


The main branches of the regional industry are: machinery, metal processing, ferrous and non-ferrous
Ferrous

Ferrous, in chemical science, indicates a bivalent iron compound , as opposed to ferric, which indicates a trivalent iron compound .Outside of chemical science, ferrous is an adjective used to indicate the presence of iron....
 metallurgy
Metallurgy

Metallurgy is a domain of materials science that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic Chemical element, their intermetallics, and their mixtures, which are called alloys....


Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Academy of Sciences

The Russian Academy of Sciences consists of the national academy of Russia and a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation as well as auxiliary scientific and social units like libraries, publishers and hospitals....
 () and numerous scientific research institutes and establishments are situated in Yekaterinburg. With its 16 state-owned universities and educational academies, as well as a number of private higher education institutions (2005), Yekaterinburg is considered the leading educational and scientific center of the Urals. Ural A.M. Gorky State University
Ural State University

The Ural State University is located in the city of Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian Federation. Founded in 1920, it was an exclusive educational establishment made of several Institute which later became independent University and School....
, Ural State Technical University
Ural State Technical University

Ural State Technical University is a higher education University in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian Federation. It is the biggest technical institution of higher education in Russia, with close ties to local industry in the Ural Mountains....
, Ural State Pedagogical University,Ural State University of Forestry, Ural State University of Mines, Ural State University of the Railways, Russian State Vocational Pedagogics University
Russian State Vocational Pedagogics University

Russian State Vocational Pedagogics University is a university in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia....
, Ural State University of Economics, Military Institute of Artillery, Ural State Conservatory
Ural State Conservatory

Urals State Conservatory is a musical university in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia....
, Ural State Agricultural Academy, Ural State Academy of Law, Ural State Academy of Medicine, Ural State Academy of Performing Arts, Ural Academy of Public Service, and Ural Academy of Architecture are among them.

Transport and accommodation


Yekaterinburg, still called by its Soviet name Sverdlovsk in rail timetables, is an important railway junction on the Trans-Siberian Railway
Trans-Siberian Railway

The Trans-Siberian Railway or Trans-Siberian Railroad is a network of railways connecting Moscow and European Russia with the Russian Far East provinces, Mongolia, China and the Sea of Japan....
, with lines radiating to all parts of the Urals and the rest of Russia. As the economy grew stronger after the slump of the 1990s, several European airlines started or resumed flying to the city's Koltsovo International Airport
Koltsovo International Airport

Koltsovo Airport is an international airport located 16km southeast of Yekaterinburg, Russia. The airport is a hub for Ural Airlines and Aviacon Zitotrans....
 (SVX). These include Turkish Airlines
Turkish Airlines

THY - Turkish Airlines, Inc. is the flag carrier of Turkey based in Istanbul. It operates a network of scheduled services to 140 international and 35 domestic cities, serving a total of 155 airports, in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America....
, Lufthansa
Lufthansa

Deutsche Lufthansa Aktiengesellschaft is one of the List of largest airlines in Europe airlines in Europe in terms of overall passengers carried, and the flag carrier of Germany....
, Malév, Austrian Airlines
Austrian Airlines

Austrian Airlines AG is the flag carrier airline of Austria, headquartered in Vienna. Together with regional subsidiary Tyrolean Airways and charter arm Lauda Air, it operates scheduled services to over 130 destinations....
, Czech Airlines
Czech Airlines

Czech Airlines j.s.c. , trading as Czech Airlines , is the Czech Republic national airline company based at Ruzyne Airport, Prague. It operates scheduled services to 69 destinations in 41 countries, including most major European cities and to transit points in the Middle East, North America, North Africa and Asia....
 and Finnair
Finnair

Finnair Plc is Finland's largest airline and the flag carrier, with its headquarters in Vantaa, Finland, and its main hub at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport....
.

Yekaterinburg is also served by the smaller Yekaterinburg Aramil Airport.

Yekaterinburg's public transit network includes the Yekaterinburg Metro
Yekaterinburg Metro

Yekaterinburg Metro is a rapid transit system that serves the city of Yekaterinburg, Russia....
 which was opened in 1991, and many streetcar (tram
Tram

A tram, tramcar, trolley, trolley car, or streetcar is a railroad car, of lighter weight and construction than a train, designed for the transport of passengers within, close to, or between villages, towns and/or cities, on tracks running primarily on streets....
), bus
Bus

A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. A bus can generally seat a maximum of anywhere from 8 to 200 passengers; many more passengers than a minivan....
, trolleybus
Trolleybus

A trolleybus is an electric bus that draws its electricity from a network of charged overhead wires using spring loaded trolley poles. Two poles are needed, so that one can draw down the live current to power the motor and the other can complete the circuit by carrying the neutral current back to the network....
, and Marshrutka
Marshrutka

Marshrutka , from marshrutnoye taksi is a share taxi in the Commonwealth of Independent States countries, the Baltic states, and Bulgaria....
 routes

Culture

The city has several dozens of libraries including the V. G. Belinsky Scientific Library, the largest public library in 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 is famous for its theaters among which there are some very popular theater companies: Yekaterinburg Academic Ballet and Opera Company, Sverdlovsk Academic Theater of Musical Comedy (legendary company known in Russia and in ex-soviet republics as ???????????? ?????????? - Sverdlovskaya muzkomedia), Yekaterinburg Academic Dramatic Theater, Yekaterinburg Theater for Young Spectators, Volkhonka (popular chamber theater), Kolyada Theater (chamber theater founded by Russian playwright, producer and actor Nikolai Kolyada). Yekaterinburg is the center of New Drama - movement of contemporary Russian playwrights: Nikolai Kolyada, Vasily Sigarev, Konstantin Kostenko, Presnyakov brothers, Oleg Bogayev
Oleg Bogayev

Oleg Bogayev , born 1970, is a Russian playwright based in Yekaterinburg. He has been described by Moscow Times theatre critic John Freedman as "one of the first and best-known students to graduate from [Nikolai] Kolyada?s playwriting course at the Yekaterinburg State Theatre Institute." He is now on the faculty at the sa...
. Yekaterinburg is also often called capital of contemporary dance for a number of famous contemporary dance companies residing in the city: Kipling, Provincial Dances, Tantstrest with a special department of contemporary dance at the Yekaterinburg University of Humanities.

A number of popular Russian rock bands, such as Urfin Dzhyus, Chayf, Chicherina, Nautilus Pompilius
Nautilus Pompilius (band)

Nautilus Pompilius , sometimes abbreviated as Nau , was a prominent Russian rock band formed in Sverdlovsk and active between 1983 and 1997....
, Nastya, Trek
Trek

The word trek has entered the English language as one of few words derived from Afrikaans language. It means a long, hard journey, and is derived from the Dutch language trekken ....
, Agata Kristi
Agata Kristi

Agatha Christie is a Russian Rock music group led by brothers Vadim and Gleb Samoylov, that was established in Yekaterinburg in 1988. It is named after english detective writer Agatha Christie....
 and Smyslovye Gallyutsinatsii, were originally formed in Yekaterinburg (Ural Rock is often considered as a particular variety of the rock music, Yekaterinburg and St. Petersburg are considered to be the main centers of rock music in Russia). Besides some famous opera singers - Boris Shtokolov
Boris Shtokolov

Boris Shtokolov was a famous Soviet Union and Russian singer, one of the greatest basses of the 20th century.Boris Shtokolov was born in the city of Kuznetsk, Kemerovo Oblast ....
, Yury Gulyayev
Yury Gulyayev

Yury Aleksandrovich Gulyayev was a Russian opera singer from Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia.He studied at the Ural State Conservatory in Yekaterinburg....
, Vera Bayeva - graduated from the Urals State Conservatory. The Ural Philharmonic Orchestra
Ural Philharmonic Orchestra

Ural Philharmonic Orchestra is a full orchestra based in Yekaterinburg and considered to be one of the major and best orchestras in Russia and in Europe....
 (current conductor - Dmitry Liss
Dmitry Liss

Dmitry Liss - Russian Conductor considered to be one of the best European conductors of his generation and famous for his elegant style and artistic execution, artistic director and chief conductor of the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra....
) founded by Mark Paverman and located in Yekaterinburg is also very popular in Russia and in Europe as well as the Ural Academic Popular Chorus - famous folklore singing and dance ensemble.

In Yekaterinburg there are more than 30 museums, among which: several museums of ural minerals and jewellery, some art galleries, one of the largest collections of Kasli mouldings (traditional kind of cast-iron sculpture in the Urals), the famous Shigirskaya Kladovaya (????????? ????????) - Shigir Collection including the oldest wood sculpture in the world — the Shigir Idol found near Nevyansk
Nevyansk

Nevyansk is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Neyva River on the eastern slope of the Middle Urals, some 97 km north of Yekaterinburg....
 and estimated to be made about 9,000 years ago).

Yekaterinburg has also a circus
Yekaterinburg Circus

Yekaterinburg Circus is a circus building for 2600 spectators in Yekaterinburg. Yeaterinburg circus has a lattice steel dome with a distinctive shape, which makes one of the Yekaterinburg's landmarks....
 building.

In Yekaterinburg, there is one of the tallest incomplete architectural structures in the world, the Yekaterinburg TV Tower
Yekaterinburg TV Tower

Yekaterinburg TV Tower is a tall incomplete structure in Yekaterinburg. Construction works started 1983, but were on-hold at the beginning of the 1990s, as its shaft reached a height of 220 metres....
.

International relations

The largest city in the Urals and one of the top five in Russia, Yekaterinburg has a number of consulates of major countries. For people wishing to make a visa
Visa (document)

A visa is an indication that a person is authorized to enter the country which "issued" the visa, subject to permission of an immigration official at the time of actual entry....
 application and needing to attend interview, this can easily take a half-week off the travelling time to get to the interview (in the event that there are internal flights to Yekaterinburg, they may only be once per week).

Consulates

  • United States Consulate—15 Gogol Street
    Gogol Street

    Gogol Street , , is a street in Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation. The street starts at the Pushkin Street, Yekaterinburg to the north, and ends at Kuybysheva Street to the south....
    ; the first consulate with a visa section in the Urals, established in 1994.
  • United Kingdom Consulate—established 1997 as a full consulate with a visa section, on 15a Gogol Street.
  • The Federal Republic of Germany
    Germany

    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
     Consulate—a full consulate with a visa section, on 44 Kuybysheva St.
  • Czech Republic Consulate—general consulate with a visa section, on 15 Gogol Street.
  • Kyrgyzstan
    Kyrgyzstan

    Kyrgyzstan , officially the Kyrgyz Republic, is a country in Central Asia. Landlocked and mountainous, it is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the southwest and People's Republic of China to the east....
     Consulate—general consulate on 105 Bolshakova Street.
  • Bulgaria
    Bulgaria

    The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....
     Consulate—general consulate on 74 Lunacharskogo Street.
  • The People's Republic of China Consulate—general consulate.
  • The Republic of Hungary
    Hungary

    Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia....
     Consulate—a full consulate with a visa section, on 15a Gogol Street.
  • The Republic of Austria
    Austria

    Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
     Consulate—honorary consular representation on 16 Turgeneva Street / 13 Pervomayskya Street.
  • The Republic of Armenia
    Armenia

    Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in South Caucasus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea....
     Consulate—honorary consular representation.
  • The Italian Republic
    Italy

    Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
     Consulate—honorary consular representation on 28 Kirova Street.
  • The Socialist Republic of Viet Nam
    Vietnam

    Vietnam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam , is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by People's Republic of China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea to the east....
     Consulate—general consulate on 22 Karl Libknehta Street.
  • The French Republic
    France

    France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
     Consulate—a full consulate with a visa section on 22 Karl Libknehta Street.
  • Spain Visa Application Center, 36 Gogol Street.


Twin cities

Yekaterinburg is a sister city of
  • Pilsen
    Pilsen

    Plzen is a city in western Bohemia in the Czech Republic. It is the capital of the Plzen Region and the fourth most populous city in the Czech Republic....
    , Czech Republic
  • Wuppertal
    Wuppertal

    ||-||}Wuppertal is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located on the Wupper river south of the Ruhr area. Population 361,333 ....
    , Germany, since 1993
  • San Jose
    San Jose, California

    San Jose or San Jos? is the List of cities in California city in California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States....
    , U.S.A., since 1992
  • Guangzhou
    Guangzhou

    'Guangzhou' is the Capital and a sub-provincial city of Guangdong Province of China in the northern and southern China part of the People's Republic of China....
    , People's Republic of China, since July 10, 2002
  • Genoa
    Genoa

    Genoa is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria. The city has a population of about 610,000 and the urban area has a population of about 900,000....
    , Italy
  • Ferentino
    Ferentino

    Ferentino is a town and comune in Italy, in the province of Frosinone, Lazio, 65 km southeast of Rome.It is situated on a hill 400 m above sea-level, in the Monti Ernici area....
    , Italy
  • Incheon
    Incheon

    Incheon is a Special cities of Korea and a major seaport on the west coast of South Korea, near Seoul.Human settlement at the location goes back to the Neolithic....
    , South Korea


Notable citizens

The following people were either born in Yekaterinburg or made names for themselves while residing there. Note that many of the ice hockey players listed play in North America's National Hockey League
National Hockey League

The National Hockey League is a professional ice hockey league composed of 30 teams in North America. It is considered to be the premier professional ice hockey league in the world, and one of the North American Major professional sports leagues of the United States and Canada....
.
  • Aleksei Balabanov
    Aleksei Balabanov

    Aleksei Balabanov is a popular Cinema of Russia. Balabanov is best known for the 1997 crime film Brother , and its more action-oriented sequel, Brother-2 , both of which starred the late Sergei Bodrov Jr....
    , film director
  • Pavel Bazhov
    Pavel Bazhov

    Pavel Petrovich Bazhov was a Russian writers.He is famous as the author of the collection of fairy-tale stories The Malachite Casket based on the Urals folklore....
    , author
  • Sergei Chepikov, biathlon competitor, Olympic champion
  • Chiang Ching-kuo
    Chiang Ching-kuo

    Chiang Ching-kuo , Kuomintang politician and leader, was the son of President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and held numerous posts in the government of the Republic of China ....
    , president of the Republic of China
    Republic of China

    The Republic of China , also known as Nationalist China is a country in East Asia that has evolved from a single-party state with full global recognition into a multi-party democratic state with Political status of Taiwan....
     from 1978 to 1988. From 1932 to 1937, Chiang Ching-kuo
    Chiang Ching-kuo

    Chiang Ching-kuo , Kuomintang politician and leader, was the son of President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and held numerous posts in the government of the Republic of China ....
     worked in Ekaterinburg at Ural Heavy Machinery Plant (Uralmash
    Uralmash

    Uralmash is a heavy machine production facility of the Russian engineering corporation OMZ. The facility is located in Yekaterinburg, Russia. The surrounding residential area where workers live is also called Uralmash....
    ). In Ekaterinburg he met his wife Faina Ipatyevna Vakhreva
    Chiang Fang-liang

    Faina Chiang Fang-liang was the wife of President of Republic of China Chiang Ching-kuo and served as First Lady of the Republic of China on Taiwan from 1978 to 1988....
    .
    Churchon Blood
    *Pavel Datsyuk
    Pavel Datsyuk

    Pavel Valerievich Datsyuk is a Russian professional ice hockey player and Captain of the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League . He is known for his stickhandling and is considered one of the best two-way forwards in the game today, having won the Frank J....
    , ice hockey player
  • Aleksandr Demyanenko
    Aleksandr Demyanenko

    Aleksandr Demyanenko was a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, People's Artist of the USSR....
    , actor
  • Irina Denezhkina
    Irina Denezhkina

    Irina Denezhkina is a Russian controversial writer, notable for a vulgar style of her works, which is explained by some as a reflection of the modern reality, as of Generation Y ....
    , author
  • Bella Dizhur, children's poet, mother of Ernst Neizvestny
    Ernst Neizvestny

    Ernst Iosifovich Neizvestny is a famous Russian-Jewish sculptor of the second half of the 20th century. Ironically, his surname translates to "unknown" or "not famous" in English....
  • Alexander Dolsky
    Alexander Dolsky

    Alexander Alexandrovich Dolsky is a Russian poet, writer, artist, and most famously known for being a Bard .Dolsky graduated from the Ural Polytechnical Institute in 1963 and in the same year he also graduated from Music school, majoring in guitar....
    , poet
  • Aleksei Fedorchenko, film director, winner of the 62 Mostra for First on the Moon
  • Stanislav Govorukhin
    Stanislav Govorukhin

    Stanislav Sergeyevich Govorukhin has been one of the most popular Soviet and Russian film directors since the 1960s. His films, often featuring detective or adventure plots, are commonly dominated by strong male characters who seek to revenge criminal acts but have to eschew commonly accepted social norms in order to succeed....
    , film director
  • Aleksei Haritidi, cartoonist, Palme d'Or Court Métrage winner at the Cannes International Film Festival for Gagarin
  • Nikolai Khabibulin
    Nikolai Khabibulin

    Nikolai Ivanovich Khabibulin is a professional ice hockey goaltender, currently with the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League. His abilities have been recognized with four appearances in the NHL All-Star Game and two Olympic medals....
    , ice hockey goaltender
  • Ilya Kormiltsev
    Ilya Kormiltsev

    Ilya Valer'yevich Kormiltsev was a Russian poet, translator, and publisher.Kormiltsev is most famous for working as songwriter and producer in Nautilus Pompilius , one of most popular rock bands in Soviet Union and, later, Russia....
    , poet, translator
  • Olga Kotlyarova
    Olga Kotlyarova

    Olga Kotlyarova is a Russian runner. She used to compete mainly in 400 metres, and has an Olympic bronze medal from 2000 in relay race. She is also a world champion in this event....
    , runner
  • Vladimir Krasnopolsky, film director
  • Vladislav Krapivin
    Vladislav Krapivin

    Vladislav Petrovich Krapivin is a Russian literature author of children's books....
    , children's author
  • Nikolai Krasovsky
    Nikolai Nikolaevich Krasovsky

    Nikolai Nikolaevich Krasovsky is a prominent Russian mathematician who works in the mathematical Control theory, the theory of dynamical systems and the theory of Game theory....
    , prominent mathematician
  • Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov
    Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov

    Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov was a Soviet Union intelligence agent and Soviet partisans who operated in the occupied Ukraine during World War II....
    , partisan and hero of World War II
    World War II

    World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
  • Yaropolk Lapshin, film director
  • Yury Levitan, radio speaker during World War II
    World War II

    World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
  • Dmitry Liss
    Dmitry Liss

    Dmitry Liss - Russian Conductor considered to be one of the best European conductors of his generation and famous for his elegant style and artistic execution, artistic director and chief conductor of the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra....
    , conductor of the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra
    Ural Philharmonic Orchestra

    Ural Philharmonic Orchestra is a full orchestra based in Yekaterinburg and considered to be one of the major and best orchestras in Russia and in Europe....
  • Lyudmila Lyadova, composer
  • Vladimir Malakhov
    Vladimir Malakhov (ice hockey)

    Vladimir Malakhov is a retired professional ice hockey player. He is currently under contract with the San Jose Sharks in the NHL. He has also played in the Russian Super League....
    , ice hockey player
  • Dmitry Mamin-Siberyak, author
  • Georgi Misharin
    Georgi Misharin

    Georgi Misharin is an ice hockey player.CHL Import Draft- Saginaw Spirit 2nd Round 2003Career statistics...
    , ice hockey player
  • Vladimir Motyl
    Vladimir Motyl

    Vladimir Yakovlevich Motyl is a Soviet Union and Russian film director and scenarist.Vladimir Motyl was born in Lepel, Belarus. His father was a Poland ?migr?, who was arrested in 1930 and sent to Solovki and died there the next year....
    , film director and scenarist
  • Ernst Neizvestny
    Ernst Neizvestny

    Ernst Iosifovich Neizvestny is a famous Russian-Jewish sculptor of the second half of the 20th century. Ironically, his surname translates to "unknown" or "not famous" in English....
    , sculptor
  • Nikolai Nikonov, author
  • Yury Osipov
    Yury Osipov

    Yury Sergeevich Osipov is a prominent Soviet Union and Russian mathematician. He is a full member and the president of the Russian Academy of Sciences....
    , mathematician and president of the Russian Academy of Sciences
    Russian Academy of Sciences

    The Russian Academy of Sciences consists of the national academy of Russia and a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation as well as auxiliary scientific and social units like libraries, publishers and hospitals....
  • Gleb Panfilov
    Gleb Panfilov

    Gleb Anatolyevich Panfilov is an internationally acclaimed Russian film director noted for a string of mostly historical films starring his wife, Inna Churikova:...
    , film director
  • Mark Paverman, conductor, founder of the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra
    Ural Philharmonic Orchestra

    Ural Philharmonic Orchestra is a full orchestra based in Yekaterinburg and considered to be one of the major and best orchestras in Russia and in Europe....
  • Ivan Polzunov
    Ivan Polzunov

    Ivan Ivanovich Polzunov was a Russian inventor. He is credited with creation of the first steam engine in Russia and the first two-cylinder engine in the world....
    , inventor
  • Alexander Stepanovich Popov
    Alexander Stepanovich Popov

    Alexander Stepanovich Popov was a Russian physicist who first demonstrated the practical application of electromagnetic waves, although he did not apply for a patent for his invention....
    , physicist who was the first to demonstrate the practical application of electromagnetic waves (radio)
  • Alexander Popov, swimmer, full member of the International Olympic Committee
    International Olympic Committee

    The International Olympic Committee is an organization based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrios Vikelas on June 23, 1894....
  • Oleg and Vladimir Presnyakov, playwrights
  • Ivan Pyriev, film director
  • Evgeniy Rodygin, composer
  • Fyodor Reshetnikov
    Fyodor Mikhaylovich Reshetnikov

    Fyodor Mikhaylovich Reshetnikov was a Russian author. In his short 29 ? years he published to critical acclaim a number of novels dealing with the plight of the lower classes....
    , author
  • Eduard Rossel
    Eduard Rossel

    Eduard Ergartovich Rossel is the governor of Sverdlovsk Oblast, an oblast in Russia. He was born on October 8, 1937, and is of Germany origin....
    , politician, governor of Sverdlovsk Oblast
  • Boris Ryzhy
    Boris Ryzhy

    Boris Borisovich Ryzhy or Ryzhii At the time of his death, Ryzhy's reputation had burgeoned and he was starting to receive recognition as one of the premier poets of his generation....
    , poet
  • Nikolai Semikhatov, mechanic, constructor of ballistic missiles control systems
  • Vera Sessina
    Vera Sessina

    Vera Sessina is a Russian individual rhythmic gymnastics. She trains in Moscow at the MGFCO - Dinamo Club. She started rhythmic gymnastics in 1993....
    , gymnast
  • Ivan Shadr
    Ivan Shadr

    Ivan Shadr , pseudonym of Ivan Dmitriyevich Ivanov was a Russian/Soviet sculpture who took his pseudonym after his hometown of Shadrinsk....
    , sculptor
  • Ivan Konontsev, software engineer, responsible for Merlin application
  • Boris Shtokolov
    Boris Shtokolov

    Boris Shtokolov was a famous Soviet Union and Russian singer, one of the greatest basses of the 20th century.Boris Shtokolov was born in the city of Kuznetsk, Kemerovo Oblast ....
    , opera singer
  • Vasily Sigarev, playwright
  • Anatoly Solonitsyn
    Anatoly Solonitsyn

    Anatoly Alekseyevich Solonitsyn was a famous Soviet actor....
    , actor, winner of the Berlin International Film Festival prize for best actor
  • Lev Sorokin, author, poet
  • Boris Stenin
    Boris Stenin

    Boris Andrianovich Stenin was a Soviet Union Speed skating, speed skating coach, and speed skating scientist.Living in Yekaterinburg, Stenin met and married fellow skater Valentina Stenina during the early days of his speed skating career....
    , speed skater
  • Pyotr Tayozhny
    Pyotr Tayozhny

    Pyotr Tayozhny , Russian sculpture. Studied at the Artistic Industrial School in Yekaterinburg together with his close friend, sculptor Ivan Shadr....
    , sculptor
  • Vladimir Uskov, film director
  • Sergei Vonsovsky
    Sergei Vonsovsky

    Sergei Vasilyevich Vonsovsky was a prominent Soviet Union and Russian physicist....
    , prominent physicist
  • Alexei Yashin
    Alexei Yashin

    Alexei Valeryevich Yashin is a professional ice hockey player who plays for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League. Prior to this he played for the New York Islanders and Ottawa Senators clubs of the National Hockey League, from 1993 to 2007....
    , ice hockey player
  • Boris Yeltsin
    Boris Yeltsin

    Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999.Yeltsin came to power with a wave of high expectations....
    , first Russian president
  • Rimma Zhukova
    Rimma Zhukova

    Rimma Mikhaylovna Zhukova was a Speed skating. She was born in Yekaterinburg, Russia.Rimma Zhukova competed for the Soviet Union and after having become Soviet Allround Champion three times and having won the prestigious Kirov prize four times, she became World Allround Speed Skating Championships in 1955....
    , speed skater
  • Irina Lashko
    Irina Lashko

    Irina Lashko is a Russian diving, who after her marriage with an Australian became known as Irina Furler.Lashko competed in four Summer Olympics, and represented four different countries: Soviet Union , Unified Team , Russia and Australia ....
    , silver winner (diving) at the 1996 Summer Olympics


Honorary citizens

House Zotov Tarasov
This is a short list of the most notable honorary citizens of Yekaterinburg (title conferred every year on the Day of the City):
  • Arkady Chernetsky
    Arkady Mikhailovich Chernetsky

    Arkady Mikhailovich Chernetsky was the mayor of Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia as of 2007....
    , mayor of Yekaterinburg
  • Gennady Mesyats, vice-president of the Russian Academy of Sciences
    Russian Academy of Sciences

    The Russian Academy of Sciences consists of the national academy of Russia and a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation as well as auxiliary scientific and social units like libraries, publishers and hospitals....
    , one of the founders of the contemporary Demidov Prize
    Demidov Prize

    The Demidov Prize was a national scientific prize in the Russian Empire awarded annually to the members of the Russian Academy of Sciences. One of the most prestigious and oldest scientific awards in the world, its traditions influenced other awards of this kind including the Nobel Prize....
  • Vladimir Tretyakov
    Vladimir Tretyakov

    Vladimir Tretyakov is a Russian mathematician. He has been the rector of the Ural State University since 1993 to 2006 and presently is its President....
    , president of the Ural State University
    Ural State University

    The Ural State University is located in the city of Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian Federation. Founded in 1920, it was an exclusive educational establishment made of several Institute which later became independent University and School....
  • Eduard Rossel
    Eduard Rossel

    Eduard Ergartovich Rossel is the governor of Sverdlovsk Oblast, an oblast in Russia. He was born on October 8, 1937, and is of Germany origin....
    , governor of the 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....
  • Sergei Chepikov, biathlon competitor, Olympic champion
  • Vera Bayeva, famous opera singer
  • Vladislav Krapivin
    Vladislav Krapivin

    Vladislav Petrovich Krapivin is a Russian literature author of children's books....
    , children's author
  • Nikolai Krasovsky
    Nikolai Nikolaevich Krasovsky

    Nikolai Nikolaevich Krasovsky is a prominent Russian mathematician who works in the mathematical Control theory, the theory of dynamical systems and the theory of Game theory....
    , prominent mathematician
  • Nikolai Karpol, coach of the national women volleyball team and the legendary Yekaterinburg women volleyball club Uralochka (????????)
  • Sergei Vonsovsky
    Sergei Vonsovsky

    Sergei Vasilyevich Vonsovsky was a prominent Soviet Union and Russian physicist....
    , prominent physicist
  • Vladimir Kurochkin, musical comedy and opera producer


Other

A ballistic missile submarine of the Project 667BDRM 'Delfin' class (NATO reporting name: Delta IV) has been named "Ekaterinburg" (K-84/'807') in honor of the city.

The asteroid
Asteroid

Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, smaller than planets but larger than meteoroids....
 27736 Ekaterinburg
27736 Ekaterinburg

27736 Ekaterinburg is a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on September 22, 1990 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory....
 was named in the city's honour on June 1, 2007.

See also

  • Sverdlovsk anthrax leak
    Sverdlovsk anthrax leak

    The Sverdlovsk anthrax leak is an incident when spores of anthrax were accidentally released from a military facility in the city of Sverdlovsk 900 miles east of Moscow on April 2, 1979....
  • Yekaterinburg-City
    Yekaterinburg-City

    Yekaterinburg-City ? is a commercial center under construction in the center of Yekaterinburg. The project combines more than 400,000 square meters of commercial space, offices, hotels, entertainment centers, cafes, and restaurants....


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