more yekaterinburg, finally

Some highlights from my visit for the State Department to the lovely Yekaterinburg, or Екатеринбу́рг. The capital of the Urals region and founded in 1723 by Peter the Great, the major industrial city was known as Sverdlovsk until 1991 and closed off to foreigners for many decades.
River crossing...

Church on the Blood, bottom left, built in 2003 at the site of the execution of Tsar Nicholas II and his family.