Ekaterinburg

[ ih-kat-er-in-burg; Russian yi-kuh-tyi-ryin-boork ]
/ ɪˈkæt ər ɪnˈbɜrg; Russian yɪ kə tyɪ ryɪnˈburk /

noun

a city in the Russian Federation in Asia, in the Ural Mountains.

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Formerly Sverdlovsk.
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Ekaterinburg
/ (Russian jɪkətɪrinˈburk) /

noun

a variant transliteration of the Russian name for Yekaterinburg
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