Yekaterinburg
Екатеринбург | |
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Location of Yekaterinburg  | |
  Yekaterinburg Location of Yekaterinburg  Yekaterinburg Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk Oblast) | |
| Coordinates: 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 |
| • Head | Alexander Vysokinskiy |
| Area | |
| • Total | 495 km2 (191 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 237 m (778 ft) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 1,537,000 |
| • Estimate (2025) | 1,488,791 |
| • Rank | 4th in 2010 |
| • Density | 3,100/km2 (8,000/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) | 620000 |
| Dialing code(s) | +7 343 |
| OKTMO ID | 65701000001 |
| City Day | 3rd Saturday of August |
| Twin towns | San Jose, Ferentino, Plovdiv, Wuppertal, Plzeň, Genoa, Guangzhou, Incheon, Gothenburg, Bishkek, Birmingham, Turin, Ho Chi Minh City |
| Website | www |
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Yekaterinburg (Russian: Екатеринбург; formerly named Sverdlovsk) is a big city in the Ural mountains in the Asian part of Russia. It is the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast. It has a population of 1,483,119 people. The city was started in 1723 by Vasily Tatischev and named after empress Catherine I who was the Peter the Great’s wife.
