Yekaterinburg

[yuh-kat-er-in-burg, yi-kuh-tyi-ryin-boork]

noun

1. Ekaterinburg.

Yekaterinburg

/ jɪkətɪrinˈburk /

noun

1. Former name (1924–91): Sverdlovsk. a city in NW Russia, in the Ural Mountains: scene of the execution (1918) of Nicholas II and his family; university (1920); one of the largest centres of heavy engineering in Russia. Pop: 1 281 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

Amateur ballerina Ksenia Karelina, a Los Angeles resident, had been in prison in Russia for over a year, after being arrested in the city of Yekaterinburg in early 2024.

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Kazakhstan’s flagship airline, Qazaq Air, suspended service on a major route, to the Russian city of Yekaterinburg.

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He moved to Yekaterinburg, then Kursk, and spent three years in Kurgan, a city to the east of the Ural mountains, before he lost his job at the philharmonic orchestra there in 2022.

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The court in Yekaterinburg found her guilty of high treason and sentenced her to imprisonment in a general regime penal colony.

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The FSB said Ms Karelina had been detained in Yekaterinburg in February - the same city in which US journalist Evan Gershkovich was arrested on charges of espionage on 29 March last year.

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