Economy
The main areas of the region's industry are machinery, metal processing, and ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy.
Recently the commercial economy has improved, and business centers like Yekaterinburg-City have been planned. One of the tallest buildings in the area Antey 3 is a skyscraper which is now complete. It is the tallest structure in Russia outside of Moscow.
Ural Airlines has its head office in Yekaterinburg.
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