Ekaterinburg Information Portal

Yekaterinburg (also transliterated as Ekaterinburg or Jekaterinburg) (Russian: Екатеринбу́рг) is a major city in central Russia, the administrative center of Sverdlovskaya Oblast. Situated on the Asian side of the Ural mountain range, at 56°51′ N 60°36′ E It is the main industrial and cultural center of the Ural region. Its population of 1,300,000 (2002) makes it Russia's fifth largest city. City is growing fast and it is expected to become the third largest in Russia. Between 1924 and 1991, the city was known as Sverdlovsk (Russian: Свердло́вск), After the Russian revolution of 1917 there were new heros and Sverdlov, one of communist leaders was one of them. So, the old city of Ekaterinburg was re-named after him. The German spelling of Ekaterinburg is Yekaterinburg though this version is not so widesperad as the first one. There is no universal rule on how to transliterate Russian names in other languages, so there are variances.

Ekaterinburg hosts lots of industry and there are vast business opportunities as a result. More and more overseas visitors come to visit Ekaterinburg every year for business and pleasure.

The purpose of this website is to give traveller enough information on the city of Ekaterinburg and to promote travel to the Urals region of Russia.

The city is the leading cultural center of the Urals and has numerous institutions of higher education, including the Urals A.M. Gorky State University (founded 1920), a conservatory, and polytechnic, mining, forestry, agriculture, law, medicine, and teacher-training institutes. The Urals branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and many scientific-research establishments are also located there.

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