Yekaterinburg (rus)

Yekaterinburg

Yekaterinburg ranks 374th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Siena, Kingdom of Hungary, and Santander, Spain. Memorable people born in Yekaterinburg include Grigori Aleksandrov, Aleksandr Demyanenko, and Ernst Neizvestny. Memorable people who died in Yekaterinburg include Andrey Prokofyev, Vladislav Krapivin, and Hugo Strauß. Yekaterinburg has been the birth place of many athletes, and hockey players and the death place of many athletes, and politicians. Yekaterinburg is located in Russia.

Yekaterinburg, alternatively romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk, is a city and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Ural Federal District, Russia. The city is located on the Iset River between the Volga-Ural region and Siberia, with a population of roughly 1.5 million residents, up to 2.2 million residents in the urban agglomeration. Yekaterinburg is the fourth-largest city in Russia, the largest city in the Ural Federal District, and one of Russia's main cultural and industrial centres. Yekaterinburg has been dubbed the "Third capital of Russia", as it is ranked third by the size of its economy, culture, transportation and tourism. Read more on Wikipedia