Cities and Towns in Sverdlovsk Oblast - Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Tagil, Kamensk-Uralsky, Serov, Pervouralsk, Krasnoufimsk, Novouralsk, Irbit (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Tagil, Kamensk-Uralsky, Serov, Pervouralsk, Krasnoufimsk, Novouralsk, Irbit, Verkhoturye, Sredneuralsk, Lesnoy, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Zarechny, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Krasnoturyinsk, Asbest, Nizhniye Sergi, Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Alapayevsk, Beryozovsky, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Talitsa, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Nevyansk, Volchansk, Artyomovsky, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Polevskoy, Krasnouralsk, Karpinsk, Severouralsk, Kachkanar, Sukhoy Log, Kamyshlov, Mikhaylovsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Ivdel, Degtyarsk, Bogdanovich, Verkhnyaya Salda, Kirovgrad, Kushva, Turinsk, Nizhnyaya Tura, Verkhnyaya Tura, Revda, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Aramil, Sysert, Nizhnyaya Salda, Tavda, Verkhny Tagil, Novaya Lyalya, Rezh, Upper and Lower Serginsk. Excerpt: Yekaterinburg (Russian: , also romanized Ekaterinburg) is a major city in the central part of Russia, the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast. Situated on the eastern side of the Ural mountain range, it is the main industrial and cultural center of the Urals Federal District with a population of 1,350,100 (2010 Census) (up from 1,293,537 recorded in the 2002 Census), making it Russia's fourth largest city. Between 1924 and 1991, the city was known as Sverdlovsk (), after the Bolshevik party leader Yakov Sverdlov. Church of Ascension (built 1792-1818)The city was founded in 1723 by Vasily Tatischev and Georg Wilhelm de Gennin and named after Saint Catherine, the namesake of Tsar Peter the Great's wife Empress Catherine I (Yekaterina). The official date of the city's foundation is 18 November 1723. It achieved town status in 1796. Soon after the Russian Revolution, on 17 July 1918, Tsar Nicholas II, his wife, Alexandra, and their children Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Tsarevich Alexei were murdered by the Bolsheviks at the Ipatiev House in this city. Other members of the Rom...