What's the other name of Ekaterinburg? Where is it in Russia map?

Answer 1

There are two possible English spellings for the name of the city. Ekaterinburg represents direct transliteration from Russian, while Yekaterinburg tries to show the correct pronunciation. Both spellings are used equally often.


Geography and Climate
Ekaterinburg is situated the middle Urals on east side of the Ural mountains on Iset river. It is surrounded by forests (taiga) and small lakes. The winter lasts here for 5 months - from November till the middle of April and the temperature may fall to minus 35-40 degress Celsius (minus 40-50 degrees Fahrenheit). The summer on the Urals is short and lasts an average of 65-70 days with an average temperature of 20 degrees Celsius (70 degrees Fahrenheit). Due to city location and different winds the weather is very unstable from day to day and from year to year.

History
In the eighteenth century Russia was seeking a way to the ocean, Peter the Great was building the first Russian fleet. The army commenced construction on a number of new factories and fortresses as there was an increased demand for iron and steel armaments of all kinds. Even then the Urals was famous for its minerals. Peter the Great sent people to the Urals to establish new factories and plants. In 1720 he sent Vasilij Tatischev, a captain of artillery to be a superviser of mine plants of the Urals. In 1721 Tatischev chose a place on the Iset river to built a new factory and a town. This place had wood, water, ore - everything necessary for a factory. Approval for building the new plant took a long time, but finally in spring of 1723 the city was founded. The new plant-fortress gave its first production in November of 1723.

Ekaterinburg is situated right on the border between Europe and Asia. Find Ural mountains on the map and Ekaterinburg is just 30 miles east in the Asian part in the middle of Urals.

Answer 2

Look in sector O 41 on the map here:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/images/russia500k_index.gif

And "Tatiana" is right - the Soviet name is Sverdlovsk. The funniest thing is that the name of the region is not renamed. It is still "Sverdlovsk region" and Ekaterinburg (or Yekaterinburg) is its capital.

Answer 3

the Soviet name for the city was Sverdlovsk