Выражение встречается в следующем контексте:Our city was founded in 1723 by Tatitzshev and de Gennin by the order of the tzar Peter the Great as the centre of the mining industry. The town was placed on the Iset River. It grew up very quickly and soon it became the centre of metallurgy, machine building and jewelry. The name of the city was Yekaterinburg. Before the Oc-tober revolution there were about 100 factories. There were also two gymnasiums, a mining college, two thea-tres, many cathedrals and two newspapers. In the 19th century the Society of the Ural Technicians and the Ural Society of Nature Explorers were founded. Because of the large number of industrial workers in the city the revolutionary activity was very strong. The Soviet power was established in July of 1919. And in 1924 the city got the name of Sverdlovsk. When speaking about the history of our city, of course, we should mention one tragical event that had happened in Yekaterinburg – the murder of the tzar and his family in July of 1918.
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