Academic, the large-scale residential area that RenovaStroyGroup-Akademicheskoye is currently putting up in the south-west of Yekaterinburg, may become the city’s eighth administrative district, the spokesperson for the city council reports.

Mayor of Yekaterinburg Arkadiy Chernetskiy and Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Eduard Rossel have already discussed the idea during their joint inspection of the city’s roads under construction.