Uralsky Sovremennik (Russian: Уральский современник, lit. "contemporary Ural"), later known as simply Ural (Russian: Урал), was a literary almanac published in the Soviet Union from 1938 to 1957. The magazine was based in Sverdlovsk. It mostly published the works of the authors from the Ural region. The almanac was operated by the Sverdlovsk department of the Union of Soviet Writers.