Facts about Yekaterinburg, the industrial city in Russia’s Ural Mountains where U.S. reporter Evan Gershkovich went on trial Wednesday on espionage charges that his employer denounced as a sham: Location and population Yekaterinburg is 880 miles east of Moscow, roughly the distance from London to Rome, or from New York to Missouri. History and culture Yekaterinburg is less than 300 …