The city of Yekaterinburg is not on the map. In the Soviet Union, there was a closed industrial giant city of Sverdlovsk, in Russia it turned into the high-tech megalopolis of Yekaterinburg, and Yekaterinburg is an intermediate stage between the Soviet and Russian formations. In the new book by Alexey Ivanov, “Yeburg: City of the Brave,” there are one hundred short stories about Yekaterinburg at the turning point of history: stories about real people who did not give in to circumstances and stubbornly built the future. The era of change gave birth to heroes and titans, and the whole country knew many of them by name. Yekaterinburg never “fell out of history,” it always decided for itself, and therefore gave its own bright answers to all the burning questions of the era. And this happened during the time of Yekaterinburg.