Information about the city of Ekaterinburg
Status: the center of the Sverdlovsk Region, center of the Urals Federal District
Phone code:+7 343*******
It is situated on the eastern slope of the Middle Urals on the banks of the Iset River
(tributary of the Tobol River), 1667 km
east of Moscow.
Economy.
The leading industry branches are mechanical engineering and metalworking.
The light and food industry is actively developing over recent years.
Leading Enterprises:
- "VIZ-Steel" JSC (Verkh-Isetsky Metallurgical Plant)
- "Uralmashspecstal" JSC
- "UMECON" OJSC
- "Nizhne-Isetsky Plant of Metal Structures" OJSC
- "Ceramic Goods Plant" OJSC
- "Piastrella" CJSC
- "Sverdlovsk Plant of Alabaster Articles" OJSC
- "Pnevmostroymashina" OJSC
- "Ural Compressor Plant" OJSC
- "Ural Plant of Chemical Machine Building" OJSC
- "Ural Plant for Heavy Machines Repair" JSC
- "Machinebuilding Plant n.a. V.V. Vorovsky" CJSC
- "Uralmash - Drilling Equipment" CJSC
- "Uraltransmash" Federal State Unitary Enterprise
- "Machinebuilding Plant n.a. Kalinin" OJSC
- "Maxi-Group" OJSC
- "Group of Companies "Kalina" OJSC
- Federal State Unitary Enterprise, scientific development and production center for automation n.a. N.A. Semikhatov
- Federal State Unitary Enterprise Ural Mechano-Optical Plant
- "Ekaterinburg Forest Machines" CJSC
Agriculture: feed crops, animal breeding for meat and dairy industry, bee keeping.
Culture.
There are about 140 scientific research, design-engineering and projecting institutes and organizations.
Ural Center of the Russian Academy of Science.
Theatres: Opera and Ballet Theatre n.a. A.V. Lunacharsky, Legitimate Drama Theatre,
Musical Comedy Theatre, Young Spectators Theatre, Puppet Theatre, Stage Theatre, and etc.
Philarmonic. Sverdlovsk Film Studio. Circus n.a. Filatov.
Museums: Regional Museum of Local Lore, Museum of Ural Mountains,
Literature Museum n.a. D.N. Mamin-Sibiryak, House-Museum of P.P.Bazhov,
Fine Art Museum, Museum of Medicine History, Museum of Ural War Fame and History,
Ural Military District Museum, Museum of Radio n.a. A.S. Popov, Museum of Nevianskaya
Icon, Museum of Stone Cutting and Jewellery History.
Sights: Square of 1905, dam of the city pond on the Iset River,
Mining Office, Manor House of Rastorguevy-Kharitonovy, Literary Block, Church-on-Blood in
the name of all Russian Saints built on the site of Ipatiev house,
where the tsar Nicholas II and his family were killed.
On the site of metallurgical plant built in 1723, Historical square with the
blocks of rock from different districts of the Ural Region.
One of the biggest covered aquaparks in Europe.
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