VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
Yekaterinburg, founded in 1723, is located in the central part of the Eurasian continent on the border between Europe and Asia on the eastern side of the Ural Mountains on the Iset River, a tributary of the Tobol River.
Yekaterinburg is the administrative centre of the Sverdlovsk Region and the centre of the Urals Federal District.
The city of Yekaterinburg is divided into 7 districts - Verkh-Isetsky, Zheleznodorozhny, Ordzhonikidzevsky, Kirovsky, Octyabrsky, Chkalovsky, and Leninsky.
As of August 1, 2010, Yekaterinburg had a population of 1,362,700.
Yekaterinburg is Russia's fourth largest city in terms of population, after Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Novosibirsk.
Yekaterinburg is an important transport junction on the Trans-Siberian Railway and a major industrial centre (with an optical-mechanical industry, instrument and heavy engineering, metallurgy, a printing industry, light and food industries, and a defense industry).
As of January-March 2010, the recovery of Yekaterinburg's economy, typical of late 2009, slowed down. In January-February 2010, the industrial production index was 157.2% of what it was in the same period of 2009. In January-February 2010, the retail trade turnover, which was 86.4%, kept falling, while the index of housing construction, which was 40.1%, turned out to be considerably lower than in the same period of 2009.
The unemployment rate decreased a little from the level of October- December 2009 and amounted to 2.06%. As of March 31, 2010, the number of official vacancies reached 11,054, while the number of unemployed people registered was 16,061.
The consumer price index amounted to 107.9% in comparison with the same period of 2009, while the price growth in January-February 2010 was 102.9%.
