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1. Ekaterinburg was founded by the first Russian Emperor Peter I. Ironically the last Russian Emperor Nicolas II was executed here.
2. Britain Parliament's roof was once covered with roofing iron manufactured in Ekaterinburg.
3. The frame of the Statue of Liberty was made of metal manufactured in Ekaterinburg.
4. Ekaterinburg was the first Russian city where people started to get iron gold (in 1745).
5. The marquee in Spas-na-Krovi church in St. Petersburg built on the place of Emperor Alexander II was manufactured at the Ekaterinburg Emperor Lapidary factory.
6. Ekaterinburg holds a Guinness record for the biggest consumption of mayonnaise per capita.
7. The city has its own equivalent of Guinness World records — «Удивительный Екатеринбург» (Amazing Ekaterinburg). It has a collection of outstanding events that happened on its territory or performed by its citizen elsewhere.
8. During the World War II Sverdlovsk held the collections of State Hermitage.
9. During the Great Patriotic War Moscow Chekhov Art Theater and Central Red Army Theater were evacuated.
10 During the World War II Sverdlovsk was the center of radio broadcast of the USSR — the city had the most powerful radio transmitter in the country and in 1941 secretly Yury Levital moved to Sverdlovsk radio studio who received information from Sovinformburo from Moscow by phone. Thus the famous Levitan words «Внимание, говорит Москва» (‘Attention Moscow speaking’) in fact broadcasted from Sverdlovsk.
11. The first biathlon championship in the USSR took place in Sverdlovsk in the Uktuskie Mountains in 1957.
12. The city name was given to tanker Sverdlovsk which had some tension with American ships in the Caribbean in 1961.
13. In 1963 Fidel Castro visited Sverdlovsk. 11 newborns were given the name Fidel that year.
14. The name Yekaterinburg was given to a nuclear ship from 667BDRM project Dolphin.
15. On the 1st of July 2007 the name Ekaterinburg was given to an asteroid 27736.
16. The deepest drill was made using «Uralmash-15000» (drilling equipment),manufactured in Ekaterinburg.
17. On the 16th 2009 Ekaterinburg help the first offial BRIC summit.
18. Throughout its history 35 heads of states visited Ekaterinburg — starting with Alexander I in 1824 and ending with BRIC and Shanghai Cooperation Organization (13 presidents) that took place in July 2009.
19. Ekaterinburg was chosen to be place for the TV show «Счастливы вместе» (‘Happy together’). This choice was based on the fact that this series is a remake of a famous American show Married With Children which happens in Chicago — the third largest city in the US; the producers were deciding which city is the third in Russia and decided it was Ekaterinburg although in fact it is Novosibirsk.
20. Having hosted UEFA CUP mini-football Final games in 2009, Ekaterinburg became the most eastern city to have final matches under UEFA.
21. In 2010 Dmitry Medvedev and A. Merkel visited Ekaterinburg for the “Petersburg Dialog”
22. Ekaterinburg became the first Russian city to have a Cyrillic domain name - .РФ
2. Britain Parliament's roof was once covered with roofing iron manufactured in Ekaterinburg.
3. The frame of the Statue of Liberty was made of metal manufactured in Ekaterinburg.
4. Ekaterinburg was the first Russian city where people started to get iron gold (in 1745).
5. The marquee in Spas-na-Krovi church in St. Petersburg built on the place of Emperor Alexander II was manufactured at the Ekaterinburg Emperor Lapidary factory.
6. Ekaterinburg holds a Guinness record for the biggest consumption of mayonnaise per capita.
7. The city has its own equivalent of Guinness World records — «Удивительный Екатеринбург» (Amazing Ekaterinburg). It has a collection of outstanding events that happened on its territory or performed by its citizen elsewhere.
8. During the World War II Sverdlovsk held the collections of State Hermitage.
9. During the Great Patriotic War Moscow Chekhov Art Theater and Central Red Army Theater were evacuated.
10 During the World War II Sverdlovsk was the center of radio broadcast of the USSR — the city had the most powerful radio transmitter in the country and in 1941 secretly Yury Levital moved to Sverdlovsk radio studio who received information from Sovinformburo from Moscow by phone. Thus the famous Levitan words «Внимание, говорит Москва» (‘Attention Moscow speaking’) in fact broadcasted from Sverdlovsk.
11. The first biathlon championship in the USSR took place in Sverdlovsk in the Uktuskie Mountains in 1957.
12. The city name was given to tanker Sverdlovsk which had some tension with American ships in the Caribbean in 1961.
13. In 1963 Fidel Castro visited Sverdlovsk. 11 newborns were given the name Fidel that year.
14. The name Yekaterinburg was given to a nuclear ship from 667BDRM project Dolphin.
15. On the 1st of July 2007 the name Ekaterinburg was given to an asteroid 27736.
16. The deepest drill was made using «Uralmash-15000» (drilling equipment),manufactured in Ekaterinburg.
17. On the 16th 2009 Ekaterinburg help the first offial BRIC summit.
18. Throughout its history 35 heads of states visited Ekaterinburg — starting with Alexander I in 1824 and ending with BRIC and Shanghai Cooperation Organization (13 presidents) that took place in July 2009.
19. Ekaterinburg was chosen to be place for the TV show «Счастливы вместе» (‘Happy together’). This choice was based on the fact that this series is a remake of a famous American show Married With Children which happens in Chicago — the third largest city in the US; the producers were deciding which city is the third in Russia and decided it was Ekaterinburg although in fact it is Novosibirsk.
20. Having hosted UEFA CUP mini-football Final games in 2009, Ekaterinburg became the most eastern city to have final matches under UEFA.
21. In 2010 Dmitry Medvedev and A. Merkel visited Ekaterinburg for the “Petersburg Dialog”
22. Ekaterinburg became the first Russian city to have a Cyrillic domain name - .РФ
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