My home city is Yekaterinburg My home city is Yekaterinburg, it is situated in the Urals. Its population is about one million four hundred thousand people. It is quite a big city. The Iset river crosses the city. The climate is continental: summers are hot and short, winters are rather cold and last long. The city was founded in 1723 under Peter the Great and named after his wife empress Catherine I (Ekaterina), namesake of Saint Catherine of Alexandria. In 1924 its name was changed and the city became Svedlovsk (in honour of the revolutionary Yakov Sverdlov) and only in 1991 it got back its initial name. The city is sadly famous for being the place of the execution of our last tsar - Nicholas II - and his family. On the site of the crime there is now the Temple on the Blood.