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of the

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of the city of

Yekaterinburg Yekaterinburg ( ; rus, Екатеринбург, p=jɪkətʲɪrʲɪnˈburk), alternatively romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk ( rus, Свердло́вск, , svʲɪrˈdlofsk, 1924–1991), is a city and the administra ...

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Prior to 20th century

* 1723 - built. * 1725 - Verkhne-Isetski ironworks established. * 1735 - Mint begins operating. * 1758 - St. Catherine's Cathedral founded. * 1774 - Epiphany Cathedral founded. * 1783 - Yekaterinburg coat of arms design adopted. * 1824 - Rastorguyev-Kharitonov Palace built. * 1839 - Trinity Cathedral consecrated. * 1845 - Ekaterinburg Drama Theatre founded. * 1853 - Natural history museum opens. * 1860 - Population: 19,830. * 1876 - Bolshoi Zlatoust (church belltower) built. * 1878 - Perm-Ekaterinburg railway begins operating. * 1883 - Population: 25,133. * 1885 - Russian Orthodox established. * 1895 -

Trans-Siberian Railway The Trans-Siberian Railway (TSR; , , ) connects European Russia to the Russian Far East. Spanning a length of over , it is the longest railway line in the world. It runs from the city of Moscow in the west to the city of Vladivostok in the ea ...

begins operating. * 1897 -

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: 43,052.

20th century

* 1913 - Population: 70,000. * 1918 - 17 July: Execution of the Romanov family by Bolsheviks. * 1919 - City becomes capital of the . * 1920 -

Ural State University The Ural State University (russian: Урáльский госудáрственный университéт и́мени А.М. Гóрького, , often shortened to USU, УрГУ) is a public university located in the city of Yekaterinburg, Sve ...

founded (including Ural Industrial Institute). * 1923 - City becomes capital of

Ural Oblast The Ural Oblast (russian: Уральская область) was an oblast of the RSFSR within the USSR. It was created November 3, 1923 by the merger of Perm, Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk and Tyumen Governorates. The capital of the oblast was Sv ...

. * 1924 - City renamed "Sverdlovsk." * 1926 - Population: 136,421. * 1928 - Nizhne-Isetski becomes part of city. * 1930 ** established. ** Avangard football club formed. ** Bolshoi Zlatoust (church belltower) demolished. * 1932 - Uktus Airfield in operation. * 1933 - Ural Heavy Machine Building Plant begins operating. * 1934 **

Urals State Conservatory Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatoire is a musical university in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. The Ural State Conservatory was founded in 1934. In 1939 the Conservatory had its first graduates. Notable alumni *Anatoliy Andreyev – ...

founded. ** City becomes capital of the

Sverdlovsk Oblast Sverdlovsk Oblast ( rus, Свердловская область, Sverdlovskaya oblast) is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia located in the Ural Federal District. Its administrative center is the city of Yekaterinburg, formerly known as S ...

. * 1936 - Ural Philharmonic Orchestra founded. * 1939 - Population: 425,544. * 1941 - Red Army Theatre relocates temporarily to Sverdlovsk. * 1943 - Koltsovo Airport in operation. * 1955 - Television Centre begins broadcasting. * 1957 - Central Stadium built. * 1965 - Population: 919,000. * 1977 - Ipatiev House demolished. * 1979 ** 2 April:

Sverdlovsk anthrax leak On 2 April 1979, spores of '' Bacillus anthracis'' (the causative agent of anthrax) were accidentally released from a Soviet military research facility in the city of Sverdlovsk, Soviet Union (now Yekaterinburg, Russia). The ensuing outbreak of ...

. ** Population: 1,239,000. * 1983 - TV Tower construction begins. * 1985 - Population: 1,300,000. * 1991 ** City named "Yekaterinburg" again. ** Yekaterinburg Metro begins operating. ** Yekaterinburg Commodity Exchange founded. * 1992 - Arkady Mikhailovich Chernetsky becomes mayor. * 1993 - 27 September: declared. * 1999 - Bishop ousted. * 2000 - City becomes part of the Ural Federal District.

21st century

* 2003 - Church of All Saints built. * 2006 -

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branch in busines

* 2009 ** 16 June:

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held in city. ** Yeltsin Presidential Center founde

* 2010 ** Alexander Yacob becomes head of city administration. ** built on ** Population: 1,349,772. * 2011 ** Russian Orthodox established. ** Vysotsky (skyscraper) built. * 2013 ** 15 February:

Chelyabinsk meteor The Chelyabinsk meteor was a superbolide that entered Earth's atmosphere over the southern Ural (region), Ural region in Russia on 15 February 2013 at about 09:20 Yekaterinburg Time, YEKT (03:20 Coordinated Universal Time, UTC). It was caused ...

visible from city. ** 28 August: Search for escaped crocodile. ** 8 September: held;

Yevgeny Roizman Yevgeny Vadimovich Roizman (Russian: Евге́ний Вади́мович Ро́йзман; born 14 September 1962) is a Russian opposition politician who served as the mayor of Yekaterinburg from 2013 to 2018. He campaigned against corrupt po ...

wins. ** Population: 1,424,702.

References

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