Yekaterinburg

Type: Cities
Location: Russia, Yekaterinburg
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Yekaterinburg is the 4th largest city in Russia after Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk and is the capital of the Urals region.
Yekaterinburg is a very compact city for its population (1.3 million).
Situated on the eastern side of the Ural Mountain range, Ekaterinburg was founded in 1723 as an iron foundry along the Iset River.
The city has now become the main industrial and cultural center of the Ural Federal District. Ekaterinburg forms a natural border between Europe and Asia at the crossroads of the two continents. Its geographical location as the “Gateway to Asia” determined its political, economic and cultural peculiarities.
In Ekaterinburg the last Russian Tsar and his family were assassinated in 1918. After the Russian revolution in 1917 Nicholas II was arrested and sent to the city of Tobolsk in Siberia, and later transferred to Ekaterinburg. By August 1918, Russia was in the throes of Civil War — Red and White Armies fought with alternating success. On July 17, 1918, Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra and their children Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Tsarevich Alexei were executed at the Ipatiev House. The Tsar family's remains were only discovered in 1979. In 1977 the Ipatiev House was destroyed by order of Boris Yeltsin who later became the first President of the Russian Federation. Exactly one day after taking power in 1991, Boris Yeltsin retrieved the remains of the royal family and the identification process began. The world famous Church on the Blood — the biggest church in Ekaterinburg, was later built on the site of the Ipatiev House as a shrine to commemorate the martyrdom of the Tsar and his family.
On September 4, 1991 the city was returned to its original name — Ekaterinburg. Reconstruction of the demolished churches and buildings started. The first President of the Russian Federation — Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin — started his political career in Sverdlovsk. He was a student in the largest University of the Ural — the Ural Technological University (“UPI”). Yeltsin was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and began working in the Communist administration in 1968. After his death, a monument and Yeltsin’s center were built in Ekaterinburg. Today Ekaterinburg is a fast developing megalopolis with a unique geographical position on the border of Europe and Asia. The major sights of Yekaterinburg include:
Church on the Blood, (Near the metro station dinamo.). Church on the Blood built in 2003 at the site of the execution of Tsar Nicholas II and his family.
Monument, (On the river bank near metro station ploshad' 1905 goda.). Easily one of Russia's weirdest attractions is the gargantuan keyboard monument in this city.