Yekaterinburg, alternatively romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk, is a city and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Ural Federal District, Russia. The city is located on the Iset River between the Volga-Ural region and Siberia, with a population of roughly 1.5 million residents, up to 2.2 million residents in the urban agglomeration. Yekaterinburg is the fourth most populous city in Russia, the largest city in the Ural Federal District, and one of Russia's main cultural and industrial centres. Yekaterinburg has been dubbed the "third capital of Russia", as it is ranked third by the size of its economy, culture, transportation and tourism, behind Moscow and Saint Petersburg.
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Yekaterinburg was founded on 18 November 1723 and named after the Orthodox name of Catherine I – Russian: Екатерина I, romanized: Yekaterina I –, the wife of Russian Emperor Peter the Great. The city served as the mining capital of the Russian Empire as well as a strategic connection between Europe and Asia. In 1781, Catherine the Great gave Yekaterinburg the status of a district town of Perm Province, and built the historical Siberian Route through the city. Yekaterinburg became a key city to Siberia, which had rich resources.
In the late 19th century, Yekaterinburg became one of the centres of revolutionary movements in the Urals.
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Towns around Yekaterinburg
- Beryozovsky13 km NE
- Verkhnyaya Pyshma13 km N
- Sredneuralsk17 km NW
- Aramil22 km SE
- Talitsa36 km W
- Degtyarsk36 km SW
- Pervouralsk41 km W
- Sysert’42 km S
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