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  Ekaterinburg
It should be mentioned that in 1979, several hundred people in the city died from anthrax, caused by a leak from a biological weapons plant right in the city (the Russians claim the death toll was just 64 people).
The Fountain "Stone Flower" is in the Square of Labor, Ekaterinburg.
Ekaterinburg is the major stop on the Trans-Siberian railway line, between Perm and Novosibirsk, and has numerous trains going to all parts of the country, also Beijing, China.
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 Ekaterinburg travel guide
Ekaterinburg is the historical and economic center of the Urals which forms a natural border between Europe and Asia.
Ekaterinburg (Yekaterinburg), the capital city of the Urals, was founded in 1723 by Tzar Peter the Great (and named after his wife, Catherine).
Ekaterinburg is a draw for geologists (fascinated by the mineral-rich Urals) and tourists who come for mystery and history of the Communist-era, and then discover a city surprisingly rich in pre-Soviet churches and other architecture of an earlier era.
www.world66.com /europe/russia/ural/ekaterinburg   (618 words)

  
  The School of Russian and Asian Studies: Regions & Cities: The Urals: Ekaterinburg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Ekaterinburg is the capital of the Central Urals.
Ekaterinburg was most notoriously the scene of the assassination of the Romanov Royal Family in 1918.
Ekaterinburg, on the surface, is a fairly typical regional Russian city and an excellent location for complete immersion in local culture.
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 Ekaterinburg
Ekaterinburg is situated the middle Urals on east side of the Ural mountains on Iset river.
The Ekaterinburg plant became the biggest on the Urals.
Forty kilometers (25 miles) to the west of Ekaterinburg, to the right of Moscow highway there is a high obelisk with a sign Europe on one side and Asia on the other.
www.ur.ru /~sg/Ekaterinburg.html   (1106 words)

  
 All about Ekaterinburg (Yekaterinburg), Russia
Ekaterinburg is the third largest Russian city, administrative center of Sverdlovsk oblast and the capital of the Urals.
Ekaterinburg can be easily found on the geographical map of the vast Euro-Asian Continent: it is in the middle of the Ural mountains, which separate Europe and Asia.
Thus, Ekaterinburg lies at the crossroads of 2 continents and it determines its political, economic and cultural peculiarities.
www.ekaterinburg.tv /aboutcity.htm   (392 words)

  
 Ekaterinburg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Ekaterinburg is a city in Russia, formerly known as Sverdlovsk.
Ekaterinburg is situated 1,036 miles (1,667 km) east of Moscow.
Ekaterinburg and towns around it have wonderful, historical and often unique architecture which can be attractive for your eyes and interesting to compare.
www.warid.com /foreign-affair/city/ekaterinburg.htm   (177 words)

  
 Ekaterinburg City Guide. Yekaterinburg, Russia
Ekaterinburg is situated on the Asian side of the Ural mountain range, at 56°51′ N 60°36′ E It is the main industrial and cultural center of the Ural region.
Ekaterinburg is the leading cultural center of the Urals and has numerous institutions of higher education, including the Urals A.M. Gorky State University (founded 1920), a conservatory, and polytechnic, mining, forestry, agriculture, law, medicine, and teacher-training institutes.
Ekaterinburg 1723 is the official date of the birth of Ekaterinburg, the industrial and military center of the Mining Administration, 4 and an important stronghold set up by the government of Peter I for the colonization of the vast expanses of the Urals and Siberia.
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 Ekaterinburg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Ekaterinburg was founded by Peter the Great (who also founded St Petersburg) and named after his second wife, Catherine and not the Empress Catherine the Great as many assume.
The good times didn't last though and in 1918 first the abdication and later the murder of the Russian royal family headed by Nickolay Romanov, put Ekaterinburg on the world map of infamy and heralded the start of a new era for the country and the city.
The most recent contribution to Russian history by Ekaterinburg was Russia's last president, Boris Yeltsin, who was the city's governor until he was summoned to Moscow, a move which eventually resulted in the dismantling of the Communist Party structure and the shattering of the Soviet myth.
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 Ekaterinburg guide center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
You will travel through the city center of Ekaterinburg and see the Historical Square, the Dam and City Pond, statue of Peter the Great, examples of Ekaterinburg industry, 19th century mansions that belonged to the rich and famous, the death sight of the Romanov's and St. Elizabeth's Chapel.
You will visit the main historical places of Ekaterinburg: the Dam, Peter the Great's Yard, the death sight of the Romanov's, St. Elizabeth's Chapel, Square of the Soviet Army, Square of the revolution in 1905 and the Ural State Technical University.
Gold was discovered in 1814 near Ekaterinburg and in 1831, the first emeralds were discovered, beginning what would later be know as the "emerald boom." Malachite would be discovered shortly after.
www.ekaterinburg-guide.com /scity.html   (932 words)

  
 City Mayors: Ekaterinburg City Hall
Ekaterinburg City Hall was built in the early 1950s by German prisoners of war and was intended to be richly symbolic and unique.
Ekaterinburg richly deserved such recognition, since the people had worked 16 to 20 hours a day in the plants and factories of the city, where each third shell and missile and each second tank of the Soviet Army was manufactured.
Ekaterinburg, with a population of some 1.5 million, is situated in central Russia on the east side of the Ural Mountains.
www.citymayors.com /cityhalls/ekaterinburg_cityhall.html   (1309 words)

  
 Flowers to Ekaterinburg, Russia
Ekaterinburg is the third largest Russian city, administrative center of Sverdlovsk oblast and the capital of the Urals.
Ekaterinburg can be easily found on the geographical map of the vast Euro-Asian Continent: it is in the middle of the Ural mountains, which separate Europe and Asia.
Thus, Ekaterinburg lies at the crossroads of 2 continents and it determines its political, economic and cultural peculiarities.
ekaterinburg.asap.ru   (1339 words)

  
 The Golden Age of Ekaterinburg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
However it is still possible to have a glimpse of the town of the 19th century's early decades – which was its Age of Gold in both literal and metaphorical sense.
The discoverers' – mostly the so-called old-believers'– golden rule of the thumb was to keep away from the official capitals and authorities, so the shower of gold poured upon and into the capital of the Urals.
The year 1814 saw the discovery of field gold (vein gold had been known since 1745); 1831ushered the era of mass output of inexhaustible Ural's emeralds which have been in great demand and fashion ever since; the emerald boom was preceded by the malachite one...
www.dininginrussia.com /irishcourtyard/history.htm   (249 words)

  
 Ekaterinburg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Thus, the city was built with four factories at the center and the natural resources of the Urals became the source of life.
The name, Ekaterinburg, was given to the city in honor of Peter the Great's wife, Ekaterina.
Today it is known that Ekaterinburg was the primary source of Soviet military weapons, including both biological and chemical weapons.
www.ahart4russia.com /Ekaterinburg.htm   (631 words)

  
 CCI: Ekaterinburg
The Ekaterinburg office recruits and prepares delegates for CCI’s Productivity Enhancement Program (PEP) and assists with other programs, such as the CCI Leaders Institute and the Schultz Awards.
Often referred to as the city where Asia and Europe meet, it was established almost 300 years ago by Peter the Great to be a major industrial and administrative center for the region.
Since the 1990s, Ekaterinburg has seen significant foreign investment from Great Britain, Finland, Austria, the U.S. and other countries, and a U.S. Consulate was opened there in 1994.
www.ccisf.org /cci_russia/ekaterinburg.htm   (301 words)

  
 Left Behind - Chapter VII - Journey to Ekaterinburg
Even the civil population of Ekaterinburg that we met in the streets seemed all akin to the ruffians that we had seen at the station when the luggage was being dealt with.
Ekaterinburg was a large mining centre, and it had become one of the chief strongholds of the Bolsheviks after the revolution.
After we had stayed for a week at Ekaterinburg we suddenly received a written order from the Soviet that we were all to leave the territory of the Government of Perm (in which Ekaterinburg lies) within twelve hours, and that we were to take up our abode in the town of Tobolsk.
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 EKATERINBURG   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
7(18) November 1723 is the official date of the birth of Ekaterinburg, the industrial and military center of the Mining Administration, and an important stronghold set up by the government of Peter I for the colonization of the vast expanses of the Urals and Siberia.
The town owes its origin to a metallurgical and metal-working plant which rose on the banks of the river Iset, and by the standards of those days was one of the best not only in Russia but also in Europe.
In 1924 Ekaterinburg was renamed to Sverdlovsk, after one of revolutionary leaders.
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 Ekaterinburg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Ekaterinburg, or Yekaterinburg, formerly known as Sverdlovsk, is located in Eastern European Russia, in the foothills of the Ural Mountains.
Ekaterinburg has a population of approximately 1,400,000 and is the leading industrial, scientific, and cultural center for the Ural district.
In 1998, Pastor Dennis Hilman moved to Ekaterinburg to serve full time as the shepherd of Ekaterinburg's growing congregation.
members.shaw.ca /russianmission/ekaterinburg.htm   (70 words)

  
 EKATERINBURG - Online Information article about EKATERINBURG
In 1834 Ekaterinburg was made the see of a See also:
Ekaterinburg is the seat of the central See also:
Ekaterinburg took its origin from the mining establishments founded by See also:
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 Sensual Central Ekaterinburg Museum Art Exhibition : LA IMC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Exhibition displays the artwork of four Ekaterinburg artists Irina Volosnikova, Victor Oborotistov, Elena Serebrova and Elena Podkorytova and have attached a picture showing some of the paintings on display.
The exhibition was supported by members of the Ekaterinburg ballet company and body art performance artist.
Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts is one of the biggest Art museums in the Urals for further details go to
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 Where In The World Is Merrill Hammond?
The city of Ekaterinburg (known as Sverdlovsk from 1924 to 1991) is situated in the northwestern part of Russia, on the eastern slope of the Ural Mountains.
The city was founded in 1721 when an ironworks was established there, and in 1723 the settlement was named Ekaterinburg for Catherine, the wife of Peter the Great.
The city was renamed in 1924 in honor of a Bolshevik leader who performed much of his early work in the Communist party there, but it resumed its original name in 1991.
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 Welcome to Ekaterinburg (Yekaterinburg), Russia! Travel with us!
Ekaterinburg is one of the biggest Russian cultural centers and has many museums, theatres and cinemas.
Ekaterinburg is the biggest industrial center in Russia.
Ekaterinburg hotel guide will help you to find the best place to stay, and our apartment rental service is available.
www.ekaterinburg.tv   (275 words)

  
 Airlines flying to Ekaterinburg
Ekaterinburg is some 1400 km East of Moscow, it takes 2 hours of flying time or 36 hours by train.
Ural Airlines (website is in German only) flies to Ekaterinburg direct from Munich (Germany) and Dubai (UAE).
But since these flights are not regular, they are not in the system the travel agents use and cannot be booked from overseas, unless you contact the tour operator direct.
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 Budget accomodation ::: Ekaterinburg Guide Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The city of Ekaterinburg (also sometimes written as Yekaterinburg) which in Soviet times was known as Sverdlovsk, is close to the border of two continents, Europe and Asia, and played a key role in the history of Russia in the twentieth century.
At the beginning of the 1990’s Ekaterinburg’s most famous politician, Boris Yeltsyn, became the first president, dismantled the Party structure and opened up the Soviet myth.
Ekaterinburg now is one of the leading Russian cities, a sort of “good example” of new economical reforms.
www.ekaterinburg-guide.com /index1.html   (169 words)

  
 The Church On The Blood Ekaterinburg
In April 1918 the Bolshevik government transferred the Tsar and his family to Ekaterinburg [2] where they were lodged in a large house requisitioned from Nikolai Ipatiev.
On July 17, 2003, exactly 85 years after the murder of the Tsar, his family and servants, the new temple was consecrated by the archbishop and bishops of the Ekaterinburg province assisted by hierarchs from all over Russia and some from abroad.
Its Web site is at: http://orthodox.etel.ru Other information is from the Ekaterinburg Eparchy at: http://www.ekaterinburg-eparhia.ru We express our gratitude to Ms Darya Zlatorunskaya of the FOND MIRA Travel Agency in Ekaterinburg whose Web site is at: http://fondmira.ru for her assistance in preparing this page.
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 Ladies from Ekaterinburg on RWRQ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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 Accessible Cities Project in Ekaterinburg, Russia
The "Accessible Cities" project is aimed at improving the quality of public buildings in the city of Ekaterinburg from the point of view of wheelchair users, organized by the Freedom of Movement Society of Wheelchair Users of the City of Ekaterinburg.
In Ekaterinburg, the local government developed the "Disability" program, which included provisions for the introduction of accessible structures.
At a meeting of the Mayor's Coordinating Council on the Affairs of Disabled People, of which several members are Freedom of Movement representatives, it was noted that in Ekaterinburg city administration and disability organizations had managed to form a partnership that has provided mutually beneficial results.
www.disabilityworld.org /01-03_02/access/russia.shtml   (1022 words)

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