Authors show the deep metaphysical connection behalf of the city with historical events and facts of history of Ekaterinburg. <...> Keywords: Yekaterinburg, symbol, name, skill, Saint Catherine, walled city, ideal city, Catherine icon, Women spinner, betrothal to Christ. <...> For instance, symbolic reality of Saint Petersburg is more than just commemoration of Peter the Great, it is connected “with the idea of Petersburg as a New Rome. <...> Orientation on Rome reveals itself not only in the name of this capital, but also in its coat of arms: it contains some transformed motives of that of Rome (or Vatican as the successor of Rome), which is, indeed, not a coincidence”.2 © Siberian Federal University. <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: leon-chernov@yandex.ru; schreibigus@mail.ru – 2114 – Therefore, when an issue of symbolic reality, which always follows the external, variable and historically diverse form, is set, the metaphysical core of the phenomenon needs to be found. <...> No matter how strange it sounds, but the city symbol issue is a practical question, though it looks purely theoretical and a Urals Institute of Administration of RANEPA Humanitarian University of Yekaterinburg 19 Studencheskaya Str., Yekaterinburg, 620049, Russia Leonid S. Chernov and Elena Iu. <...> Revisiting the Meaning of Yekaterinburg City Nam based only on the value of the truth, which is the truth for the sake of the truth as such. <...> However, as a polity, as a totality of institutional forms and processes administration is carried out through, a city needs to realize its symbolic reality, which is the base for its practical activity, because it is where the real and the most powerful source for development belongs. <...> Though some historical events have not happened yet, they have been programmed in the name as set in stone. <...> Contemporary historians write: “It was Yekaterinburg, an industrial capital, built as though in compliance with a “perfect fortress” plan, the main city of the region established for ages. <...> When a city begins from a fortress, it assumes that the place needs some protection, that it is valuable and special. <...> The fortress is intended to make the place powerful and strong. <...> A planned fortress is a result of rational thinking which starts from understanding <...>