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Yekaterinburg, Russia

This 137,500 square feet mixed-use commercial and office space in Yekaterinburg, Russia, has Bank Soyuz as its anchor tenant. Bank Soyuz recently ranked eighth in the “Profil” rating of 100 largest, most-reliable banks in Russia. Bank Soyuz is among the 40 largest in Russia and ranks 32nd in terms of equity capital and 31st in terms of net assets, as of early 2008.

Yekaterinburg is the fifth-largest city in Russia, with a population of just under 1.5 million. It is situated on the eastern side of the Ural Mountains on the Iset River. Yekaterinburg’s main economic activities are in the machinery, metal processing, and ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy industries.