Ural (region)
Subdivision ( major city ) Economic region Federal District
Bashkortostan Republic ( Ufa ) Ural Volga
Chelyabinsk Oblast ( Chelyabinsk ) Ural Ural
Kurgan Oblast ( Kurgan ) Ural Ural
Orenburg Oblast ( Orenburg ) Ural Volga
Perm Krai ( Perm ) Ural Volga
Sverdlovsk Oblast ( Yekaterinburg ) Ural Ural
Tyumen Oblast ( Tyumen ) West Siberia Ural
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug ( Khanty-Mansiysk ) West Siberia Ural
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug ( Salekhard ) West Siberia Ural
Udmurt Republic ( Izhevsk ) Ural Volga
Current administrative divisions of Urals
Ural () is a geographical region located around the Ural Mountains, between the East European and West Siberian plains. It is considered a part of Eurasian Steppe, extending approximately from the North to the South; from the Arctic Ocean to the end of Ural River near Orsk city. The border between Europe and Asia runs along the Eastern side of the Ural Mountains. Ural mostly lies within Russia but also includes a small part of Northwestern Kazakhstan. This is a historical, not an official entity, with borders overlapping its Western Volga and Eastern Siberia neighboring regions. At some point in the past, parts of the currently existing Ural region were considered a gateway to Siberia, or even Siberia itself, and were combined with the Volga administrative the divisions. Today, there are two official namesake entities; the Ural Federal District and the Ural economic region. While the latter follows the historical borders, the former is a political product; the District omits Western Ural and includes Western Siberia instead. The historical center of the Ural is Cherdyn, nowadays it is a small town in Perm Krai. Perm was an administrative center of the gubernia with the same name by 1797. The most territory of historical and modern Ural was included in Perm Gubernia. The administrative center of Urals was moved to Sverdlovsk (nowadays Yekaterinburg) after Revolution and Civil war.