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The Plotinka, the Literary Quarter and the Church on the Blood
⏱ 4 h🚶 2.5 km🍽 1📍 7 stops
The essential Yekaterinburg in half a day: from 1905 Square across the Plotinka and the park on the site of the first ironworks, up Voznesenskaya Hill to the Church on the Blood and the Kharitonovs’ English garden.
🏛 History and architecture
All day: from Vainera to the Yeltsin Centre
⏱ 10 h 30 min🚶 7.3 km🍽 3📍 13 stops
A big day in the centre: breakfast by 1905 Square, Vainera and the Plotinka, the Kasli Pavilion, Voznesenskaya Hill with the Church on the Blood, the museum of the 1990s at the Yeltsin Centre and dinner with nelma stroganina.
🏛 History and architecture
The centre in an hour: Vainera and the Plotinka
⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 1.7 km🍽 1📍 6 stops
If you’re short of time: pedestrian Vainera, the main square, the dam where the city began, the fairy-tale Sevastyanov House and a croissant to finish.
🏛 History and architecture
Ural food: pelmeni, shangi and nelma
⏱ 5 h 30 min🚶 3.4 km🍽 4📍 6 stops
A tasty day in the centre: pelmeni and liqueurs at Dva Deda, the “Sverdlovsk” puff pastry at the Yeltsin Centre, shangi in the food mall and northern fish for dinner — with Vainera, the Plotinka and the pond in between.
🍽 Food tour
New in central Yekaterinburg
⏱ 5 h🚶 2.8 km🍽 4📍 6 stops
Places that opened in 2024–2025: a doughnut shop with Soviet-style doughnuts, a restaurant built around a wood-fired oven, a café at the Yeltsin Centre and a big food mall by the pond.
🍽 Food tour✨ New places
Art: Hermitage-Ural, cast iron and icons
⏱ 5 h 30 min🚶 3.5 km🍽 2📍 6 stops
The three main art museums in the centre, with street art in between: Europe in the Granit printing house, the cast-iron Kasli Pavilion and golden Nevyansk icons.
🎨 Art
All day: museums, icons and street art
⏱ 10 h🚶 4.8 km🍽 3📍 9 stops
A day of art in the centre: factory machinery and architecture, Kasli cast iron, Hermitage-Ural, Nevyansk icons and Stenografia murals — and in the evening, liqueurs under the roof of an old building.
🎨 Art
Evening: Vysotsky, the Plotinka and the bars of 8 Marta
⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 2.3 km🍽 3📍 6 stops
The city in lights from the 52nd floor, dinner at a brewpub in the Constructivist House of the Press, the lit-up Plotinka and two bars on 8 Marta.
🌙 Evening
Evening by the Plotinka: lights and a cocktail
⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 1 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
A short evening walk: the lit-up Sevastyanov House, the Plotinka in lights, the city hall with its clock — and a cocktail in a secret bar on 8 Marta.
🌙 Evening
With kids: the zoo, radio and the 52nd floor
⏱ 5 h🚶 2 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
The zoo in the centre, a radio museum with old receivers and a telegraph, the city from the 52nd floor and lunch at a restaurant with a kids’ room.
👶 With kids
With kids: gemstones, the dendropark and murals
⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 2 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
A museum of malachite, gold and meteorites, lunch with a kids’ room, a walk in the dendropark and the bright Stenografia murals on 8 Marta.
👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature
With a stroller: the Literary Quarter and Kharitonovsky Garden
⏱ 1 h 30 min🚶 1.6 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
A short, quiet walk: the houses of the Literary Quarter, the colonnade of the Kharitonov estate, the garden with a pond and an island rotunda, and lunch with a kids’ room.
👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature
If it rains: the Yeltsin Centre and Hermitage-Ural
⏱ 5 h 30 min🚶 900 m + 🚕🍽 2📍 4 stops
Half a day indoors: the museum of the 1990s and the art gallery at the Yeltsin Centre, lunch in its restaurant, a short taxi ride to Hermitage-Ural and pelmeni across the road.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art☔️ If it rains
If it rains: gemstones and the Church on the Blood
⏱ 5 h 30 min🚶 1.8 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
Short dashes between museums in the centre: Ural malachite and jewellery, the history of Yekaterinburg, a 19th-century literary salon and the lower church on the site of the Ipatiev House.
🏛 History and architecture☔️ If it rains
If it rains: the Kasli Pavilion and steam engines
⏱ 1 h 30 min🚶 900 m🍽 1📍 3 stops
An hour and a half indoors by the Plotinka: the architecture museum in the ironworks buildings, the cast-iron pavilion from the Paris exhibition and a warm restaurant nearby.
🎨 Art☔️ If it rains
Along the Iset: the dendropark, the pond and Kharitonovsky Garden
⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 5.3 km🍽 1📍 7 stops
A green line through the centre: the dendropark, the Iset embankment, the Plotinka, the City Pond embankment to Yekaterinburg City and an English garden on Voznesenskaya Hill.
🌳 Parks and nature
Constructivism: from the House of Offices to Chekists’ Town
⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 2.6 km🍽 1📍 6 stops
The capital of Constructivism along Prospekt Lenina: the House of Offices, the main post office with the zero-kilometre marker, the House of the Press, the Bolshoy Ural and the Chekists’ commune quarter with the horseshoe of the Iset Hotel.
🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art
Vysotsky: the city from the 52nd floor
⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 800 m🍽 1📍 3 stops
All of Yekaterinburg from above in half an hour, the Constructivist House of the Press on the way and coffee opposite the Opera House.
🏛 History and architecture
All day: Constructivism, Vtuzgorodok and the Stone Tents
⏱ 9 h 30 min🚶 9 km + 🚋🍽 2📍 10 stops
From the Constructivism of the centre — the House of Offices, the main post office, the House of the Press and Chekists’ Town — by tram to the student district of Vtuzgorodok, then into the pine forest to the granite rocks, Lake Shartash and a dinner of pancakes and caviar.
🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature
Uralmash: Pyatiletki Square and the White Tower
⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 3 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
The socialist town of the “factory of factories”: the grand square in front of the gates, radiating streets of 1930s houses, a huge Palace of Culture and the White Tower — the icon of Ural Constructivism.
🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre
Vtuzgorodok and the Stone Tents
⏱ 4 h🚶 4.1 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
By tram to the student district of Vtuzgorodok and the UrFU colonnade, then into the pine forest to the granite rocks and the shore of Lake Shartash.
🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre
Nevyansk: the Demidovs’ leaning tower
⏱ 8 h🚶 6 km + 🚆🍽 1📍 5 stops
An hour and a half on the Finist train to the Demidovs’ leaning tower above the factory pond, a white cathedral and a merchant’s estate. Lunch at a café right by the tower, and back in the evening.
🏛 History and architecture🚆 Out of town
Verkhnyaya Pyshma: tanks, aircraft and vintage cars
⏱ 6 h🚶 2 km + 🚋🍽 1📍 3 stops
By tram from the metro to one of the largest technology museums in Russia: hundreds of tanks, aircraft and locomotives in the open air and a heated pavilion of cars from the first Benz to the Pobeda.
👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🚆 Out of town
Ganina Yama: a monastery in a pine forest
⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 1.5 km + 🚌🍽 1📍 2 stops
Half a day out of town: by bus from the metro to a forest monastery by an old mine, linked to the death of the royal family. Seven wooden churches, paths among the pines and lunch in the refectory.
🏛 History and architecture🚆 Out of town
Sysert: Bazhov and the factory pond
⏱ 7 h 30 min🚶 5 km + 🚌🍽 1📍 5 stops
An hour on the bus to the small factory town where Bazhov was born: his house museum, a square with characters from his tales, a view of the pond and the old ironworks museum. Lunch at a restaurant with Sysert dishes.
🏛 History and architecture🚆 Out of town

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