Sverdlovsk, now the fourth-largest Russian city, was the Belarusian State Technological University evacuated to in 1941.
Belarusian State Technological University (Russian:     ; Belarusian:     ) is a University in Minsk, Belarus specialized in engineering and technology. 
 It was established in Gomel in 1930 as the Forestry Institute. 
 In 1941, it was evacuated to Sverdlovsk, now Yekaterinburg. 
Yekaterinburg (Russian:  ; ] ), alternatively romanised as Ekaterinburg, is Russia's fourth-largest city after Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and Novosibirsk, with a population of 1,349,772 as of 2010. 
 Yekaterinburg is the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast located in the middle of the Eurasian continent, on the border of Europe and Asia. 
 In 1924, the city was named Sverdlovsk (Russian:  ) after the Communist party leader Yakov Sverdlov, and in 1991 back to Yekaterinburg. 
