[3] The almanac was founded as Uralsky Sovremennik in 1938 by Klavdiya Rozhdestvenskaya, the editor-in-chief of the Sverdlovsk Publishing House.
Among editors of the almanac were Klavdiya Rozhdestvenskaya herself, the famous Ural writer Pavel Bazhov, N. Popova, V. A. Starikov.
Pavel Bazhov's fairy tales, such as "The Stone Flower", "The Malachite Casket", "Silver Hoof", were published in it.
After some debate the Union of Soviet Writers decided to reorganize the magazine to expand the number of authors and "its circle of topics".
[2] In 1957 a new editorial board was hired, Uralsky Sovremennik was renamed to Ural.