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The Russian city of Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk),
with more than 1 million people on the eastern flank of
the Ural Mountains, is a regional service center for the
wide range of minerals extracted from the Urals. Linear
features radiate in all directions from the city—railroads;
highways; pipelines; dual runways of a large airport
southeast of the city; and power line rights-of-way,
especially in the wide swath southwest of the city.
Yekaterinburg serves as the western terminus for the
Trans-Siberian Railroad. Visible are two smaller cities—Verkhnyaya
Pyshma and Berezovskiy—north and northeast,
respectively, and numerous lakes. The region (latitude 57
degrees north) has a relatively short growing season;
however, cultivated field patterns are discernible in the
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