Yekaterinburg

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city million city municipality

Yekaterinburg is a major industrial and cultural city in Russia’s Ural region, historically known as the site of the execution of the last Russian tsar, Nicholas II, and his family.

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Observed surface forms (5)

Surface form Occurrences
Yekaterinburg, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic 3
Ekaterinburg 2
Sverdlovsk 2

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf city ⓘ
million city ⓘ
municipality ⓘ
capitalOf Sverdlovsk Oblast ⓘ
country Russia ⓘ
foundedBy Georg Wilhelm de Gennin ⓘ
Vasily Tatishchev ⓘ
hasAirport Koltsovo International Airport ⓘ
hasClimate continental climate ⓘ
hasFestival International Documentary Film Festival Flahertiana (regional venue) ⓘ
Ural Music Night ⓘ
hasFunction cultural center ⓘ
industrial center ⓘ
transport hub ⓘ
hasLandmark Keyboard Monument ⓘ
Plotinka (historic dam on the Iset River) ⓘ
Sevastyanov House ⓘ
Vysotsky skyscraper ⓘ
Yekaterinburg Circus ⓘ
Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theatre ⓘ
hasMuseum Museum of the History of Yekaterinburg ⓘ
Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts ⓘ
hasPopulation over 1,000,000 inhabitants ⓘ
hasRiver Iset River ⓘ
hasSite Church on Spilled Blood ⓘ
surface form: Church on the Blood in Honour of All Saints Resplendent in the Russian Land

Ganina Yama monastery complex ⓘ
hasSportsTeam Avtomobilist Sverdlovsk ⓘ
surface form: Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg

FC Ural Yekaterinburg ⓘ
hasTheatre Yekaterinburg State Academic Drama Theatre ⓘ
Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theatre ⓘ
surface form: Yekaterinburg State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre
hasUniversity Ural Federal University ⓘ
historicalEvent execution of Nicholas II of Russia and his family in 1918 ⓘ
inception 1723 ⓘ
isAdministrativeCenterOf Ural Federal District ⓘ
isOneOf largest cities in Russia ⓘ
locatedIn Sverdlovsk Oblast ⓘ
locatedInRegion Ural region ⓘ
locatedInTimeZone Yekaterinburg Time ⓘ
locatedOn Iset River ⓘ
locatedOnContinent Asia ⓘ
Europe ⓘ
nameChange name Yekaterinburg restored in 1991 ⓘ
renamed to Sverdlovsk in 1924 ⓘ
namedAfter Catherine I of Russia ⓘ
Yakov Sverdlov ⓘ
surface form: Yakov Sverdlov (as Sverdlovsk)
partOf Ural Federal District ⓘ
railwayJunctionOf Trans-Siberian Railway ⓘ
UTCOffset +5 ⓘ
wasCalled Yekaterinburg self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Sverdlovsk

Referenced by (25)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ipatiev House → cityHistoricalName → Yekaterinburg ⓘ
this entity surface form: Ekaterinburg
Ipatiev House → citySovietName → Yekaterinburg ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sverdlovsk
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia → deathPlace → Yekaterinburg ⓘ
subject surface form: Nicholas II of Russia
Ural Airlines → hasFocusCity → Yekaterinburg ⓘ
Ural Airlines → hasHeadOfficeIn → Yekaterinburg ⓘ
Russia → hasMajorCity → Yekaterinburg ⓘ
Hefei → hasSisterCity → Yekaterinburg ⓘ
Ural Airlines → headquartersLocation → Yekaterinburg ⓘ
Nizhny Tagil → locatedEastOf → Yekaterinburg ⓘ
Ipatiev House → locatedIn → Yekaterinburg ⓘ
European Russia → majorCity → Yekaterinburg ⓘ
Ural region → majorCity → Yekaterinburg ⓘ
Yakov Sverdlov → namedAfter → Yekaterinburg ⓘ
this entity surface form: city of Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg)
Ural Mountains → near → Yekaterinburg ⓘ
this entity surface form: city of Yekaterinburg
this entity surface form: Yekaterinburg, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
this entity surface form: Yekaterinburg, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
this entity surface form: Yekaterinburg, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Yakov Sverdlov → residence → Yekaterinburg ⓘ
this entity surface form: Ekaterinburg
Rossiya Airlines → servesCity → Yekaterinburg ⓘ
Ural region → traditionalCapital → Yekaterinburg ⓘ
Yekaterinburg → wasCalled → Yekaterinburg self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sverdlovsk