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This town is in the province Sverdlovskaya oblast.
Website about 280 years Ekaterinburg/Sverdlovsk (1723-2003). In Russian.
The weather in Ekaterinburg (CNN) The webcams at Fondmira and traffic cams (also the poor polar bear in the zoo).Information about this city
Information about travel in/to Russia.Some pictures; see also here (not mine). Panorama images of Ekaterinburg (from US consulate general). Here are photos of the Ice City in 2003/4 (which one could not see on the webcam unfortunately).
Tanja was living in ul. Krestinskogo in Botanicheskii (in the south).