'Ural' () is a geographical region around the
Ural Mountains, mostly within
Russia but also including a part of northwestern
Kazakstan. This is a historical, not an official entity, with the boundaries overlapping its western
Volga and eastern
Siberia neighbor regions. At points in time, parts of the Urals were considered a gateway to
Siberia, if not Siberia itself, or were combined with the
Volga administrative divisions. At present time, there are two official namesake entities, the
Urals Federal District and the
Urals economic region. While the latter follows the historical boundaries reasonably well, the former is purely a product of an imposed political will, as the District omits western Urals and includes western Siberia instead.
Yekaterinburg is regarded the "capital" of the Urals, with
Chelyabinsk a clear second.
Perm and
Orenburg have been the historical administrative centers, and
Ufa the ethnic center.
Current administrative subdivisions and their affiliations
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