is possible for two and a half hours, yekaterinburg received a name in honor of empress catherine i. catherine ii status of a city in 1781. modern yekaterinburg lives in the rhythm of a metropolis, the center of economic, financial and business life, a skyscraper quarter. it became the same landmark of its architecture as the old mansions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the difficult times of wars. the urals have always stood up for the defense of the motherland, the urals took an active part.