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Yekaterinburg
City in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia

Yekaterinburg

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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The city is located on the Iset River between the Volga-Ural region and Siberia, with a population of roughly 1.5 million residents, up to 2.2 million residents in the urban agglomeration. Yekaterinburg is the fourth most populous city in Russia, the largest city in the Ural Federal District, and one of Russia's main cultural and industrial centres. Yekaterinburg has been dubbed the "third capital of Russia", as it is ranked third by the size of its economy, culture, transportation and tourism, behind Moscow and Saint Petersburg.

Get in

Getting to Yekaterinburg

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    Koltsovo International Airport
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    Central Railway
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    Northern Bus Station
  4. 04
    Southern Bus Station
See

Worth seeing

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    Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts

    5, Voevodina str (just south of the Gorodskoy Prud, on the west bank of the river).

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    Dam on the River Iset
  3. 03
    House of the Merchant Pshenichnikova
  4. 04
    Building of the HQ of Mining
  5. 05
    QWERTY Monument
  6. 06
    Sevastjanov House
Do

Things to do

Cross-country skiing: the trails stretch away for miles. There are some downhill skiing resorts as well. It will take you approximately 25 minutes to get to the nearest of them from the center of the city. Watch football at Yekaterinburg Arena, which hosted matches in the 2018 World Cup.

Eat

Where to eat

Many cafés and restaurants provide the usual mix of Russian, Japanese and Italian food, but the level of international cuisine is not that high.

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    Si!

    They offer respectively Italian, American, and Japanese accessible cooking.

How locals move

Getting around Yekaterinburg the local way

  • Go nextFrom the outermost bus stop there is a little marshrutka going to the next one for .

From Wikivoyage: Yekaterinburg, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

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