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      All day: museums, icons and street art

      ⏱ 10 h🚶 4.8 km🍽 3📍 9 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      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.

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        ☕️ Espresso Season
        ул. Горького, 29
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        A late breakfast at 10:00 by Historical Square: croque madame or sweet potato draniki (potato pancakes). The museums nearby open at 11:00.
        🍴 A coffee shop by Historical Square, with breakfast from 8:00. What to order: croque madame, sweet potato draniki (potato pancakes), the “Larry” latte.
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      3. 2
        🖼 Museum of Architecture and Design
        ул. Горького, 4А
        🎟 ticket · the yard with the machinery can also be seen from Historical Square
        A museum in the buildings of the old ironworks by the Plotinka: models, the history of Ural architecture and a yard with steam engines and rolling mills.
        From 11:00, Wednesday to Sunday: models of the city and steam engines in the yard.
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        Museum of Architecture and Design
        © MBH · CC BY 4.0
        Museum of Architecture and Design
        © MBH · CC BY 4.0
        Museum of Architecture and Design
        © MBH · CC BY 4.0
        Museum of Architecture and Design
        © MBH · CC BY 4.0
        • The museum opened on 29 March 1975 under the Sverdlovsk Architectural Institute.
        • It occupies the surviving buildings of the Yekaterinburg ironworks in Historical Square.
        • The yard holds large 19th- and 20th-century factory machinery — collecting it began in the late 1970s.
        • Before it was renamed, it was called the Museum of the History of Architecture and Industrial Technology of the Urals.
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        🖼 Museum of Fine Arts: the Kasli Pavilion
        ул. Воеводина, 5
        🎟 ticket
        The main building of the Museum of Fine Arts on the Iset: the cast-iron Kasli Pavilion from the 1900 Paris exhibition, Russian painting and Nevyansk icons.
        Over the little bridge across the Iset to the Kasli Pavilion.
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        Museum of Fine Arts: the Kasli Pavilion
        © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Museum of Fine Arts: the Kasli Pavilion
        © Vadim Zhivotovsky · CC BY 3.0
        • The pavilion was cast at the Kasli ironworks for the 1900 World’s Fair in Paris, where it won the Grand Prix.
        • It is the only cast-iron architectural structure in a museum collection anywhere in the world.
        • The pavilion, about 5 metres high, has been in the museum since 1958.
        • The museum building is the former hospital of the Yekaterinburg ironworks, built in the 1730s and early 1740s.
        • The city’s first theatre performance took place here in 1843.
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        🍽 Gorozhane restaurant
        ул. Добролюбова, 6
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        Lunch on Dobrolyubova.
        🍴 An original menu a stone’s throw from the Museum of Fine Arts, with breakfast from 8:30. What to order: the seasonal soup, a main made with local produce, the dessert of the day.
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        🏛 “Wall of Angels” street art
        ул. 8 Марта, 22/1
        A large mural from the Stenografia festival on 8 Marta Street — one of the most striking murals in the centre.
        The Stenografia mural on 8 Marta.
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        • The Stenografia street art festival has been held in Yekaterinburg every year since 2010, on the first weekend of July.
        • The festival’s works are scattered around the centre — on blank walls, in archways and courtyards.
        • Murals are sometimes painted over or covered with new ones — check that this one is still there.
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      11. 6
        🖼 Hermitage-Ural
        ул. Вайнера, 11
        🎟 ticket
        The Museum of Fine Arts building on Vainera, the former Granit printing house: Western European sculpture and painting and joint exhibitions with the Hermitage.
        European art and Hermitage exhibitions in the Granit printing house building.
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        Hermitage-Ural
        © Ingenua-ragazza · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Hermitage-Ural
        © Митрохина Марина · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The building was put up in 1914 for the Granit printing house to a design by K. T. Babykin, in the Art Nouveau style.
        • From 1936 it housed a picture gallery.
        • In 2021, after reconstruction, the Hermitage-Ural cultural and exhibition centre opened here.
        • It is one of the four buildings of the Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts.
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        🖼 Nevyansk Icon Museum
        ул. Энгельса, 15
        🎟 ticket
        Russia’s first private icon museum: hundreds of Nevyansk icons of the 18th–20th centuries with gold backgrounds and an Old Believer history.
        ≈15 minutes along Malysheva: Nevyansk icons of the 18th–20th centuries.
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        Nevyansk Icon Museum
        © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The museum opened on 4 December 1999 as Russia’s first private icon museum.
        • The collection holds more than 700 Nevyansk icons of the 18th–20th centuries.
        • The Nevyansk school of icon painting existed from the 1730s to the early 20th century; it was created by Old Believer masters.
        • Its heyday is linked with the workshop of the Bogatyrev dynasty in the first third of the 19th century.
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        🏛 Street art at Tolmacheva, 12
        ул. Толмачёва, 12
        The courtyards by Tolmacheva, 12: several Stenografia works in one place — a paper aeroplane, patterns and lettering.
        The courtyards by Tolmacheva, 12 — several Stenografia works one after another.
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        Street art at Tolmacheva, 12
        © Денис Александров · CC BY 3.0
        Street art at Tolmacheva, 12
        © Денис Александров · CC BY 3.0
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      17. 9
        🍸 Dva Deda. Cherdak
        просп. Ленина, 41
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        Dinner under the roof: pelmeni (dumplings) and liqueurs. From 18:00 on weekdays, from 15:00 at weekends.
        🍴 A bar under the roof of an old building on Prospekt Lenina, with attic windows. What to order: fruit liqueurs, “Okhotnichyi Baiki” pelmeni (dumplings) and kartoshka (a chocolate-crumb cake).

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