This article examines the lyrics of songs about Sverdlovsk created in the second half of the 1940s—1960s, to analyze the formation and consolidation of the image of the city in the context of the literature about Sverdlovsk of this period. By the 1940s, a stable image of Sverdlovsk had developed in literature as a major center of industrialization, a socialist city with an original history born “from the will of the Urals, labor and energy” (V. Mayakovsky). In the 1940s, the image of the city finally took shape — the “pantry”, “arsenal”, “fortress” — in a word, the “pillar” of the state. In 1948, three songs about the city were written in different stylistic registers by N. Kushtum, K. Murzidi, and E. Ruzhansky. All of them conveyed the “st...