With the growth in trade and the city's administrative importance, the ironworks became less critical, and the more important buildings were increasingly built using expensive stone.
The budget of Yekaterinburg in 2015 was executed on income in the amount of 32,063.
Enterprises in the city ravaged by the war were nationalised, including: the Metalist formerly Yates Plant, the Verkh-Isetsky formerly Yakovleva Plant, and the Lenin flax-spinning factory formerly Makarov.
The Perm—Yekaterinburg—Tyumen section is now part of the main route of the.