page_title: Yekaterinburg
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context_page_description: Yekaterinburg, alternatively romanized Ekaterinburg, is the largest city and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast. The city is located on the Iset River in Western Siberia, with a population of 1,493,749 million inhabitants, it is the fourth-largest city, and one of the main cultural and industrial centres of Russia. Yekaterinburg has been dubbed the "Third capital of Russia", as it is ranked third by the size of economy, culture, transportation and tourism.
  The region was settled and developed by Novgorodians by the 11th century.
  Yekaterinburg was founded on 18 November 1723 and named after the Russian emperor Peter the Great's wife, who after his death became Catherine I, Yekaterina being the Russian form of her name. The city served as the mining capital of the Russian Empire as well as a strategic connection between Europe and Asia at the time. In 1781, Catherine the Great gave Yekaterinburg the status of a district town of Perm Province, and built the main road of the Empire, the Siberian Route, through the city.
context_section_description: Yekaterinburg (/jɪkətərɪnˈbɜːrɡ/; Russian: Екатеринбу́рг, IPA: [jɪkətʲɪrʲɪnˈburk]), alternatively romanized Ekaterinburg, is the largest city and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast. The city is located on the Iset River in Western Siberia, with a population of 1,493,749 million inhabitants, it is the fourth-largest city, and one of the main cultural and industrial centres of Russia. Yekaterinburg has been dubbed the "Third capital of Russia", as it is ranked third by the size of economy, culture, transportation and tourism.
  The region was settled and developed by Novgorodians by the 11th century.
  Yekaterinburg was founded on 18 November 1723 and named after the Russian emperor Peter the Great's wife, who after his death became Catherine I, Yekaterina being the Russian form of her name. The city served as the mining capital of the Russian Empire as well as a strategic connection between Europe and Asia at the time. In 1781, Catherine the Great gave Yekaterinburg the status of a district town of Perm Province, and built the main road of the Empire, the Siberian Route, through the city. Yekaterinburg became a key city to Siberia, which had rich resources, and was known as the "window to Asia", a reference to Saint Petersburg as a "window to Europe". In the late 19th century, Yekaterinburg became one of the centres of revolutionary movements in the Urals. In 1924, after Russia became a socialist state, the city was named  Sverdlovsk (Russian: Свердло́вск) after the Bolshevik leader Yakov Sverdlov. During the Soviet era, Sverdlovsk was turned into an industrial and administrative powerhouse. In 1991, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the city returned to its historical name.
  Yekaterinburg is one of the most important economic centres in Russia, and was one of the host cities of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The city had experienced economic and population growth recently, and some of the tallest buildings in Russia are located in the city. Yekaterinburg will host the 2023 Summer Universiade.
caption: Clockwise from top right: City Administrative Building, Ural State College, Yekaterinburg-City, Sevastyanov's House, Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center, Church of All Saints
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