Fun fact 1 about Yekaterinburg
city
Yekaterinburg was founded in 1723 by Russian historian Vasily Tatishchev and engineer Georg Wilhelm de Gennin under the decree of Peter the Great.
Yekaterinburg
Russia
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city
Yekaterinburg
Russia
Country
Russia
Population
1.5M
Coordinates
56.84, 60.61
Yekaterinburg, alternatively romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk (1924–1991), is a city and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Ural Federal District, Russia.
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