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 |
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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
- 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
Images for kids
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Casting mold that can hold 5 sickles, dating back to the Bronze Age
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This photo by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky from 1910 shows the tallest building in the pre-revolutionary Urals, the Great Zlatoust bell tower
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Yekaterinburg tram
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Yekaterinburg trolleybus
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The Central Stadium hosted the 2018 FIFA World Cup games
See also
In Spanish: Ekaterimburgo para niños
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