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Yekaterinburg (Russian: Екатеринбу́рг; IPA: [jɪkətʲɪrʲɪnˈburk]), alternatively romanized as Ekaterinburg, is the fourth-largest city in Russia and the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast, located in the middle of the Eurasian continent, on the border of Europe and Asia.[14][15] At the 2010 Census, it had a population of 1,349,772.[7]
Yekaterinburg is the main industrial and cultural center of the Ural Federal District. Between 1924 and 1991, the city was named Sverdlovsk (Свердло́вск) after the Communist party leader Yakov Sverdlov.
Duch Jakuba Swierdlowa / The Ghost of Yacov Sverdlov
Historia Jacoba Swierdłowa jest typową historią rosyjską: od biedaka przez rewolucjonistę po bohatera narodowego i człowieka na pomnikach. Wkrótce pojmany, osadzony i rozstrzelany jako zdrajca. Z pomnika zrzucony. Cokół jednak pozostał. Daje się na nim nawet odcyfrować ślady po literkach.
VO: Aleksander Suslov
Wiersz: Wiaczesław Iwanow (Вячеслав Иванов)
The story of Jacob Sverdlov's life is typical for Russian history: from the poor kid to the revolutionary and national hero and onto the monuments. Soon arrested, imprisoned and shot as a traitor. And thrown off the monument. The plinth, however, remained. It is still possible to decipher the traces of letters from his name.
VO: Aleksander Suslov
Poem by: Viacheslav Ivanov (Вячеслав Иванов)
Yekaterinburg | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:18 1 History
00:00:27 1.1 Prehistory
00:00:46 1.2 Imperial era
00:01:04 1.3 Soviet era
00:01:22 1.4 Contemporary era
00:01:41 2 Geography and climate
00:01:50 2.1 Location
00:02:09 2.2 Time
00:02:27 2.3 Climate
00:02:45 3 Demographics
00:02:55 3.1 Population
00:03:13 3.2 Religion
00:03:31 4 Government
00:03:50 4.1 Administrative districts
00:04:08 4.2 Administration
00:04:18 4.2.1 Urban
00:04:36 4.2.2 Oblast
00:04:54 4.2.3 Federal
00:05:13 4.3 Politics
00:05:31 5 Economy
00:05:40 5.1 Overview
00:05:59 5.2 Living costs and the labor market
00:06:17 5.3 Finance and business
00:06:36 5.4 Industry
00:06:54 5.5 Retail and services
00:07:13 5.6 Tourism
00:07:31 6 Infrastructure
00:07:40 6.1 Transportation
00:07:59 6.1.1 Roads
00:08:17 6.1.2 Public transit
00:08:36 6.1.3 Rail
00:08:54 6.1.4 Air
00:09:12 6.2 Health
00:09:31 7 Education
00:09:59 8 Media and telecommunications
00:10:17 9 Life and culture
00:10:26 9.1 Overview
00:10:54 9.2 Architecture
00:11:21 9.3 Sports
00:11:40 9.3.1 Sport clubs
00:11:58 9.3.2 2018 FIFA World Cup
00:12:17 10 International relations
00:12:26 10.1 Consulates
00:12:44 10.2 BRIC summit
00:13:03 10.3 World Expo
00:13:21 10.4 Twin towns and sister cities
00:13:31 11 Notable people
00:13:40 12 Others
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Yekaterinburg ( yih-KAT-ər-in-burg; Russian: Екатеринбу́рг, IPA: [jɪkətʲɪrʲɪnˈburk]), alternatively romanized Ekaterinburg, is the fourth-largest city in Russia and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast, located on the Iset River east of the Ural Mountains, in the middle of the Eurasian continent, on the Asian side of the boundary between Asia and Europe. It is the main cultural and industrial centre of the oblast. In 2018, it had an estimated population of 1,501,652. Yekaterinburg has been dubbed the third capital of Russia, as it is ranked third by the size of economy, culture, transportation and tourism. It is located about 1,420 kilometres (880 mi) to the east of Moscow.
The region was settled and developed by Novgorodians already in the 11th century.
Yekaterinburg was founded on 18 November 1723 and named after the Russian emperor Peter the Great's wife, who after his death became Catherine I, Yekaterina being the Russian form of her name. The city served as the mining capital of the Russian Empire as well as a strategic connection between Europe and Asia at the time. In 1781, Catherine the Great gave Yekaterinburg the status of a district town of Perm Province, and built the main road of the Empire, the Siberian Route, through the city. Yekaterinburg became a key city to Siberia, which had rich resources, and was known as the window to Asia, a reference to Saint Petersburg as a window to Europe. In the late 19th century, Yekaterinburg became one of the centres of revolutionary movements in the Urals. In 1924, after Russia became a socialist state, the city was named Sverdlovsk (Russian: Свердло́вск) after the Bolshevik leader Yakov Sverdlov. During the Soviet era, Sverdlovsk was turned into an industrial and administrative powerhouse. In 1991, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the city returned to its historical name.
Yekaterinburg is one of the most important economic centres in Russia, and the city had experienced economic and population growth recently. Some of the tallest buildings in Russia are located in the city.
Lenin got a Valentine in Ekaterinburg
Citizens wished lonely monuments of Soviet leaders a happy Valentine's Day.
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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known by the alias Lenin, was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia and then the wider Soviet Union became a one-party communist state governed by the Russian Communist Party. Ideologically a Marxist, he developed political theories known as Leninism.
Born to a wealthy middle-class family in Simbirsk, Lenin embraced revolutionary socialist politics following his brother's 1887 execution. Expelled from Kazan Imperial University for participating in protests against the Russian Empire's Tsarist government, he devoted the following years to a law degree. He moved to Saint Petersburg in 1893 and became a senior Marxist activist. In 1897, he was arrested for sedition and exiled to Shushenskoye for three years, where he married Nadezhda Krupskaya. After his exile, he moved to Western Europe, where he became a prominent theorist in the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP). In 1903, he took a key role in a RSDLP ideological split, leading the Bolshevik faction against Julius Martov's Mensheviks. Encouraging insurrection during Russia's failed Revolution of 1905, he later campaigned for the First World War to be transformed into a Europe-wide proletarian revolution, which as a Marxist he believed would cause the overthrow of capitalism and its replacement with socialism. After the 1917 February Revolution ousted the Tsar and established a Provisional Government, he returned to Russia to play a leading role in the October Revolution, in which the Bolsheviks overthrew the new regime.
Lenin's Bolshevik government initially shared power with the Left Socialist Revolutionaries, elected soviets, and a multi-party Constituent Assembly, although by 1918 it had centralised power in the new Communist Party. Lenin's administration redistributed land among the peasantry and nationalised banks and large-scale industry. It withdrew from the First World War by signing a treaty with the Central Powers and promoted world revolution through the Communist International. Opponents were suppressed in the Red Terror, a violent campaign administered by the state security services; tens of thousands were killed or interned in concentration camps. His administration defeated right and left-wing anti-Bolshevik armies in the Russian Civil War from 1917 to 1922 and oversaw the Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921. Responding to wartime devastation, famine, and popular uprisings, in 1921 Lenin encouraged economic growth through the market-oriented New Economic Policy. Several non-Russian nations secured independence after 1917, but three re-united with Russia through the formation of the Soviet Union in 1922. In increasingly poor health, Lenin died at his dacha in Gorki, with Joseph Stalin succeeding him as the pre-eminent figure in the Soviet government.
Widely considered one of the most significant and influential figures of the 20th century, Lenin was the posthumous subject of a pervasive personality cult within the Soviet Union until its dissolution in 1991. He became an ideological figurehead behind Marxism–Leninism and thus a prominent influence over the international communist movement. A controversial and highly divisive individual, Lenin is viewed by supporters as a champion of socialism and the working class, while critics on both the left and right emphasize his role as founder and leader of an authoritarian regime responsible for political repression and mass killings.