Sverdlovsk
Between 1924 and 1991 Yekaterinburg, Russia was also known as SverdlovskSverdlovsk (,
translit. Sverdlovs'k, ) is a
city in the
Luhansk Oblast (
province) of south-eastern
Ukraine. Serving as the
administrative center of the
Sverdlovsky Raion (
district), the city itself is also designated as a separate
raion within the
oblast, and is located approximately 80km from the oblast capital,
Luhansk.
The current estimated population is around 72,531 (as of
2001).
At the end of the
18th century,
Catherine II of Russia granted
ataman Vasyl Orlov a small farmland in the headstream of
Dolzhyk River as a reward for his excellent military service. The farmland took on the name
Dolzhykovo-Orlovske. The development of the surrounding village sped up towards the end of
19th century, after the discovery of
coal in the
Donetsk region. In
1938 the city received
city status and its current name in the memory of the
Bolshevik leader
Yakov Sverdlov.
Yekaterinburg, in the
Russian
Ural Mountains, was also renamed Sverdlovsk from
1924-
1991.
Most of the city residents work in the
mining industry.
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