Yekaterinburg (from 1924 to 1991 - Sverdlovsk) is a city in Russia, the administrative center of the Ural Federal District and the Sverdlovsk Region [5]. Forms a municipal entity in the city of Yekaterinburg with the status of a city district [6]. It is the largest administrative, cultural, scientific and educational center of the Urals. Located on the eastern slope of the Middle Urals, along the banks of the Iset. Founded on November 7 (November 18), 1723, as an iron works. The name is given in honor of Empress Catherine the First. Catherine II in 1781 granted Ekaterinburg the status of a district town of the Perm province. In the late XIX - early XX century, he was one of the centers of the revolutionary movement in the Urals. In the Soviet years it turned into a powerful industrial and administrative center of the country. The city made a huge contribution to the victory of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War. The Ural Heavy Machine Building Plant was one of the largest Soviet manufacturers of armored vehicles in the war years.
Located on the eastern slope of the Middle Urals, along the banks of the Iset.
Founded on November 7 (November 18), 1723, as an iron works. The name is given in honor of Empress Catherine the First. Catherine II in 1781 granted Ekaterinburg the status of a district town of the Perm province.
In the late XIX - early XX century, he was one of the centers of the revolutionary movement in the Urals. In the Soviet years it turned into a powerful industrial and administrative center of the country. The city made a huge contribution to the victory of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War. The Ural Heavy Machine Building Plant was one of the largest Soviet manufacturers of armored vehicles in the war years.