Yekaterinburg

Yana studies astrophysics in Yekaterinburg.

Yekaterinburg used to be named Sverdlovsk, after the communist revolutionary, Yakov Sverdlov. The oblast that it is in is still called "Sverdlovsk Oblast".

Five people were killed and at least 50 were detained in an attack against Azerbaijanis in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg.

Yekaterinburg, which has city status, is considered one of the largest administrative, cultural, scientific and educational centers of the Ural Federal District and the Ural Economic Region.

In 1781, Catherine II granted Yekaterinburg the status of a district city of Perm Governorate.

Yekaterinburg was one of the centers of the revolutionary movement in the Urals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Yekaterinburg is the fourth largest agglomeration in Russia.

Yekaterinburg is the most important administrative center.