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Yekaterinburg
(yi kä′tə ren bo̵org)
city in Russia, in the Ural Mountains: pop. 1,347,000
See Yekaterinburg in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(yĭ-kătˈər-ən-bûrgˌ) or E·ka·te·rin·burg (ĭ-kătˈ-) Formerly (1924-1991) Sverd·lovsk (sfĕrd-lôfskˈ)
A city of west-central Russia in the eastern foothills of the Ural Mountains. Nicholas II and his family were executed here (1918) after the Russian Revolution. Population: 1,300,000.
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