Yekaterinburg Facts for Kids

Quick facts for kids Yekaterinburg (English) Екатеринбург (Russian) Sverdlovsk (1924–1991)
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Clockwise: City Administrative Building, Ural State College, Yekaterinburg City, Sevastyanov's House, Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center, Church of All Saints

Coat of arms	Flag
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	Alexander Vysokinskiy
Representative body	City Duma
Statistics
Area	495 km² (191 sq mi)
Population (2010 Census, preliminary)	1,349,772 inhabitants
- Rank in 2010	4th
Population (2017 est.)	1,488,791 inhabitants
Density	2,727/km² (7,063/sq mi)
Time zone	YEKT (UTC+06:00)
Founded	18 November 1723
City status since	1796
Postal code(s)	620000
Dialing code(s)	+7 343
Official website: http://www.ekburg.ru/

Yekaterinburg is a big city in the Ural mountains in the Asian part of Russia. It has a population of 1,483,119 people. The city was started in 1723 by Vasily Tatischev and named after Saint Catherine.

Twin cities

The city duma building with the Lenin statue.

Yekaterinburg is a sister city of

Casting mold that can hold 5 sickles, dating back to the Bronze Age
Snow-covered statue of Yakov Sverdlov
Yekaterinburg City and vicinities, satellite image of ESA Sentinel-2
North side of Devil's Settlement
This photo by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky from 1910 shows the tallest building in the pre-revolutionary Urals, the Great Zlatoust bell tower
Building of the Administration of Yekaterinburg located on 1905 Square
The building of Sverdlovsk Oblast's Legislative Assembly
Residence of the presidential envoy of the Ural Federal District
Iset Tower is a 52-story residential skyscraper and is the tallest building in Yekaterinburg. It is located within the vicinity of Yekaterinburg-City
1st Pyatiletka Square, where Uralmash is headquartered
Vaynera Street, where most of Yekaterinburg's retail is centralised
E22 bypass in the Chkalovsky District
Yekaterinburg tram
Yekaterinburg trolleybus
Yekaterinburg railway station
Regional Clinical Hospital No. 1
Main building of the Ural Federal University
Building of Technical University
Ural State Mining University
Yekaterinburg TV Tower before it was demolished
Yekaterinburg Circus.
District Officers' House
The Central Stadium hosted the 2018 FIFA World Cup games
Crowd of fans in Yekaterinburg during the 2018 World Cup