Yekaterinburg

Екатеринбу́рг (Yekaterinburg or Ekaterinburg), is Russia's fourth-largest city after Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Novosibirsk, with a population of 1,349,772 as of 2010. Yekaterinburg is the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast located in the middle of the Eurasian continent, on the border of Europe and Asia. Situated on the Iset River, the city was built in 1723 and named by Emperor Peter the Great for his wife Empress Catherine. In 1924, the city was renamed Sverdlovsk (Свердло́вск) after the Communist party official Yakov Sverdlov. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the name Yekaterinburg was restored.

Yekaterinburg in "Les Mortes d'Arthur"
The Treaty of Sverdlovsk maintained peace between Moscow and Siberia in the 22nd century. Nevertheless, border skirmishes between the two nations occurred.