Nizhny Tagil (the Tagil — mance., letters. a lot of water) is a town in the Sverdlovsk region of Russia, the administrative center of the city district "the city of Nizhny Tagil and Urban city district, center for the management of the Mining district. Railway station of the Sverdlovsk railway. The city ranks second in population in the Sverdlovsk oblast after Yekaterinburg and together with the Yekaterinburg is one of the two large cities of the region.