 The administrative center of Urals was moved to Sverdlovsk (nowadays Yekaterinburg) after Revolution and Civil war.Nowadays Ural economic region does not have an administrative and informal capital, whereas Yekaterinburg is the administrative center of the Ural Federal District.From the 11th century, the region of the Ural Mountains was called "Kamyen’" (Камень, "the Stone") by Russians.