Yekaterinburg: post-industrial orientations of the industrial city

Yekaterinburg was built as an industrial city in the XVII century, and was developing as a major industrial centre until the XXI century. Both pre-soviet Yekaterinburg and Soviet Sverdlovsk was the city manufacturing strategic defence products important for the state. Its structure, design, institutes, rhythm were focused on the effective operation of big plants. The modern city is changing its purpose transforming into a metropolis with a post-industrial vector of development.