Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg (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.
Yekaterinburg (English) Екатеринбург (Russian) Sverdlovsk (1924–1991) | |
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- City - | |
250px Clockwise: City Administrative Building, Ural State College, Yekaterinburg City, Sevastyanov's House, Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center, Church of All Saints | |
City Day | 3rd Saturday of August |
Administrative status | |
Country | Russia |
Federal subject | Sverdlovsk Oblast |
Administratively subordinated to | City of Yekaterinburg |
Municipal status | |
Urban okrug | Yekaterinburg Urban Okrug |
Head[1] | Alexander Vysokinskiy[1] |
Representative body | City Duma[2] |
Statistics | |
Area | 495 km2 (191 sq mi)[3] |
Population (2010 Census, preliminary) | 1,349,772 inhabitants[4] |
- Rank in 2010 | 4th |
Population (2017 est.) | 1,488,791 inhabitants[5] |
Density | 2,727/km2 (7,063/sq mi)[6] |
Time zone | YEKT (UTC+06:00) |
Founded | 18 November 1723 |
City status since | 1796 |
Postal code(s) | 620000[7] |
Dialing code(s) | +7 343[7] |
Official website |
Twin cities
Yekaterinburg is a sister city of
- - Pilsen, Czech Republic
- - San Jose, California, U.S.A., since 1992
- - Guangzhou, the People's Republic of China, since July 10 2002
- - Genoa, Italy
- - Ferentino, Italy
Yekaterinburg Media
Snow-covered statue of Yakov Sverdlov
Yekaterinburg City and vicinities, satellite image of ESA Sentinel-2
This photo by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky from 1910 shows the tallest building in the Urals at the time, the Great Zlatoust bell tower
Building of the Administration of Yekaterinburg located on 1905 Square
Related pages
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Official website of Yekaterinburg. Alexander Edmundovich Yakob, Head of Administration of the City of Yekaterinburg Archived 2015-07-12 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
- ↑ Charter of Yekaterinburg, Article 24.1
- ↑ "Стратегический план развития Екатеринбурга до 2015 года. Раздел II. Исходные конкурентные возможности Екатеринбурга. Внутренние факторы развития города". Archived from the original on 21 February 2014. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
- ↑ "Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1[[Category:Articles containing Russian language text]]". Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года (2010 All-Russia Population Census) (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service. 2011. Retrieved June 29, 2012.
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- ↑ The value of density was calculated automatically by dividing the 2010 Census population by the area specified in the infobox. Please note that this value may not be accurate as the area specified in the infobox does not necessarily correspond to the area of the entity proper or is reported for the same year as the population.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Ekaterinburg.com. General Information Archived 2013-01-21 at Archive.today