You might wonder why I write Yekaterinburg while the card writes Sverdlovsk on it ! Well , the card is of USSR era and by that time the city was known as Sverdlovsk in honour of the communist party leader Yakov Sverdlov. After 1991 took back its old name Yekaterinburg in honour of Yekaterina , the wife of Tsar Peter the Great . It is the 4th largest city in Russia and it is situated near the "borders" between the European & Asian part of the country . It is also known as the place where the last Russian Tsar Nikolay II and his family were executed in 1918.
The building shown is Ural State University
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