demidovs, founders yekaterinburg vasily tatishchev and wilgeldy gein wrote the first pages in the gloriousmining region, the sverdlovsk region is located in the middle and northern parts of the ural ridge. this is the largest region of the ural federal district between moscow and the center of the region, the city of yekaterinburg. by rail over 1,600 km. traveling by train will take about a day to reach by plane. it is possible for two and a half hours, yekaterinburg received a name in honor of empress catherine i. catherine ii granted him the 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.