A presentation about the history of Yekaterinburg (Russian: Екатеринбу́рг), the fourth-largest city in Russia.

1. Yekaterinburg

2. Geography
• Yekaterinburg (Russian: Екатеринбу́рг;
also spelled Ekaterinburg), formerly
known as Sverdlovsk (1924–1991) is
the fourth-largest city in Russia and the
administrative center of Sverdlovsk
Oblast (map shown right).
• It lies on the Iset River, a tributary of the
Tobol River, on the eastern slope of the
Ural Mountains, slightly east of the
border between Europe and Asia.
• It is located 1,036 miles (1,667 km) east
of Moscow.

3. Current status
Administrative status (as of 2011) Municipal status (as of June 2009)
• Country: Russia
• Federal subject: Sverdlovsk Oblast
• Administratively subordinated to:
City of Yekaterinburg
• Administrative center of: Sverdlovsk
Oblast, City of Yekaterinburg
• Urban okrug: Yekaterinburg Urban Okrug
• Administrative center of: Yekaterinburg
Urban Okrug
• Head (Mayor): Yevgeny Roizman
• Representative body: City Duma

4. Current status (cont.)
• Statistics
▫ Area: 495 km2 (191 sq mi)
▫ Population (2010 census): 1,349,772 inhabitants (ranked fourth in 2010)
▫ Population (2017 est.): 1,488,791 inhabitants
▫ Density: 2,727/km2 (7,060/sq mi)
▫ Time zone: YEKT (UTC+05:00)

5. Symbols
Flag Coat of arms

6. Yekaterinburg city center and Iset River

7. History
• Near the village of Shartash, which was founded in 1672 by members of the Russian
sect of Old Believers, an ironware was established in 1721, and a castle in 1722.
• In 1723, the new community was named Yekaterinburg in honor of Catherine I, the
wife of Peter the Great (the ruler of Russia from 1682–1725) and the Empress of
Russia from 1725–1727.
• The town expanded as the administrative center for all the ironware of the Urals
region; its prominence rose after 1783, when the Great Siberian Highway was
constructed through it.
• It was granted city status in 1796.
• After 1878, the Trans-Siberian Railroad connected the city to Siberia.
• After the Russian Revolution of 1917 (October), Yekaterinburg gained infamy as the
scene of the killing of the last tsar, Nicholas II, and his family in July 1918.
• In 1924, the city was renamed Sverdlovsk in honor of the Bolshevik leader Yakov M.
Sverdlov.
• It changed back to its original name in 1991.

8. Trans-Siberian Highway

9. Trans-Siberian Railway

10. Modern Yekaterinburg
• Modern Yekaterinburg is one of the main manufacturing centers of Russia,
particularly for heavy production.
• The Uralmash constructs heavy equipment and is the city’s largest production
company; it once had about 50,000 workers, but it now has only a small portion of
that figure.
• Industrial products made in the city include metallurgical and chemical equipment,
turbines, diesels, and ball bearings.
• During the Soviet era, the city was an important center of biological and chemical
warfare research and development.
• There is an assortment of light industries, including an old-fashioned one of gem
cutting; food managing is also vital.
• The city, laid out on a regular grating design, stretches across the valley of the Iset—
blocked there to create a sequence of small lakes—and the low adjoining hills.

11. Modern Yekaterinburg (cont.)
• Yekaterinburg is an important railway
interchange, with lines extending from it to
all parts of the Urals and the rest of Russia.
• The city is the primary cultural center of the
Urals and has countless centers of higher
education, including the Urals A.M. Gorky
State University (founded in 1920; right), a
music school, and polytechnic, mining,
forestry, agricultural, law, medical, and
teacher-training institutes.
• The Urals office of the Russian Academy of
Sciences and many scientific-research
institutions are also situated there.
• Boris Yeltsin, the first democratically
elected president of Russia and its first post-
Soviet leader (1991–1999), was educated in
Yekaterinburg and spent much of his
political career there.

12. Church of Ascension

13. References
• https://www.britannica.com/place/Ye
katerinburg
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yekater
inburg