The Founders of Yekaterinburg (Основание и основатели Екатеринбурга )

All the cities around the world are born according to different reasons, and with different aims, connected with these cities… Yekaterinburg was born as a really welcome for Russia baby, the mother (The Russian Empire) believed in the city, for Her this child was a great support and a defender, against the unfriendly aimed neighbors. At that very moment, there was a great war with Sweden, the country that pretended to get the European leadership. This war required a really great quantity of metal, that’s why Yekaterinburg, first of all, was built for the purpose of metal production.