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      All day: from Vainera to the Yeltsin Centre

      ⏱ 10 h 30 min🚶 7.3 km🍽 3📍 13 stops
      🏃 A lot — over 7 km

      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.

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        ☕️ Breakfast Unit on Bankovsky Lane
        Банковский пер., 8
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        Breakfast from 8:00 on Bankovsky Lane: syrniki (cottage-cheese pancakes) or pasta with porcini.
        🍴 All-day breakfasts by 1905 Square. What to order: syrniki (cottage-cheese pancakes), tagliatelle with porcini, the “Milk Girl” cake.
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        🚶 Vainera Street
        ул. Вайнера, от ул. Малышева к проспекту Ленина
        The pedestrian “Ural Arbat”: merchants’ houses, bronze figures of townspeople, cafés and shops from Prospekt Lenina to Kuibysheva Street.
        Stroll along pedestrian Vainera to Malysheva and back: merchants’ houses and bronze townspeople.
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        Vainera Street
        © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Vainera Street
        © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • It is one of the oldest streets in the city: it is mentioned as early as the 1740s.
        • In the 19th century it was called Uspenskaya and was the main shopping street.
        • The present name was given in 1919, after the Bolshevik L. I. Vainer.
        • The stretch between Prospekt Lenina and Kuibysheva Street is pedestrian and is called the “Ural Arbat”.
        • No. 11, the former Granit printing house in the Art Nouveau style, is now Hermitage-Ural.
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        🏛 1905 Square
        пл. 1905 года, у метро «Площадь 1905 года»
        The city’s main square: the city hall with its spire and clock, a Lenin monument and old paving stones. Under the square is a metro station.
        The city’s main square — city hall, clock, paving stones.
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        1905 Square
        © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The square took shape in 1930, when the Epiphany Cathedral was demolished and two squares — Cathedral Square and the Main Market Square — were joined.
        • In the 18th century there was trading here, so it was first called Market Square.
        • The square was paved back in the 19th century.
        • Locals simply call it “the square of the fifth year”.
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        🏛 Plotinka
        просп. Ленина, между улицами Воеводина и Горького
        The 1723 dam of the City Pond, where Yekaterinburg began: the city’s main meeting and strolling spot, with a view of the pond and Historical Square.
        The 1723 dam: a view of the pond and the Sevastyanov House.
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        Plotinka
        © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Plotinka
        © Ludvig14 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Plotinka
        © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The dam on the Iset was completed on 11 September 1723 — the city’s history is counted from it and from the state ironworks.
        • Construction began on the decision of Vasily Tatishchev and was finished under Georg Wilhelm de Hennin.
        • It was designed by Leonty Zlobin, the dam master of the Nevyansk ironworks: a log frame packed with stone and clay.
        • The Main Prospekt — now Prospekt Lenina — was laid along the axis of the dam.
        • In 1972–1973 the dam was faced with granite and decorated with bas-reliefs about the Ural metalworkers.
        • In 1998 a passage was made under the dam from the lower terrace of the square — the builders were surprised at how well the old structure had survived.
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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.
        Go down into Historical Square to the Iset — the museum is in the old ironworks hospital. The Kasli Pavilion alone is worth the visit; open Wednesday to Sunday from 11:00.
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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 next to the museum, 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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        🏛 Sevastyanov House
        просп. Ленина, 35
        A white-and-blue mansion with Gothic turrets on the bank of the pond — the most fairy-tale building in Yekaterinburg. It is now an official residence, so we look from outside.
        The fairy-tale house on the bank of the pond — we look from outside.
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        Sevastyanov House
        © Serge larin · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Sevastyanov House
        © amanderson2 · CC BY 2.0
        • The house is named after Nikolai Sevastyanov, who owned it from 1860.
        • In 1866 the façades were rebuilt to a design by Alexander Paduchev — in an eclectic style with Gothic and Baroque touches.
        • From 1874 it housed the District Court, and after the revolution the House of Trade Unions.
        • In 2008–2009 the house was restored for the SCO and BRIC summits.
        • The house appears on the 2023 series 5,000-rouble banknote.
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        🌳 Literary Quarter
        Царская ул., 4
        🆓 free entry · the quarter’s museums are ticketed
        A quiet quarter of 19th-century wooden and stone houses by the Church on the Blood: writers’ museums, a chamber theatre and a small park.
        The Literary Quarter: old houses and quiet in the middle of the city.
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        Literary Quarter
        © Евгений Смирнов · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Literary Quarter
        © AnnushkaW · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Literary Quarter
        © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Literary Quarter
        © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The quarter is part of the United Museum of Ural Writers, founded in 1980.
        • It holds the museums “Literary Life of the Urals in the 19th Century” and “Literary Life of the Urals in the 20th Century”, the Reshetnikov house museum and the Chamber Theatre.
        • The museum publishes the magazine Literaturny Kvartal.
        • The quarter stands on Voznesenskaya Hill, a stone’s throw from the Church on the Blood.
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        🏛 Church on the Blood
        Царская ул., 10
        🆓 free entry · the museum of the royal family in the Patriarchal Compound is ticketed
        A five-domed church on the site of the Ipatiev House, where the family of Nicholas II was shot in 1918. Below is a dim lower church, and next door a museum of the royal family.
        The lower church with the recreated room of the Ipatiev House.
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        Church on the Blood
        © MBH · CC BY 4.0
        Church on the Blood
        © alexandergroshev · CC BY 3.0
        Church on the Blood
        © MBH · CC BY 4.0
        • The church was built in 2000–2003 on the site of the demolished Ipatiev House.
        • On the night of 17 July 1918 Nicholas II, his family and four servants were shot here.
        • The upper church is tall and bright, with a white marble iconostasis; the lower one is dim, with low vaults.
        • The lower church contains a symbolic recreation of the room where the shooting took place.
        • Next door, in the Patriarchal Compound building, is the Museum of the Holy Royal Family.
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        🏛 Church of the Ascension
        ул. Клары Цеткин, 11
        🆓 free entry
        The city’s oldest surviving church, at the top of Voznesenskaya Hill, opposite the Kharitonov estate.
        The city’s oldest church at the top of the hill; opposite is the colonnade of the Kharitonov estate.
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        Church of the Ascension
        © MBH · CC BY 4.0
        Church of the Ascension
        © MBH · CC BY 4.0
        Church of the Ascension
        © MBH · CC BY 4.0
        • The first wooden church here was consecrated in 1770; work on the stone one began in the late 1780s.
        • Since the demolition of the St Catherine and Epiphany cathedrals, it is the oldest surviving church in the city.
        • The church was closed in 1926; the first liturgy was held here again on 15 February 1991.
        • The church appeared in the films “Ugryum-Reka” and “The Privalov Millions”.
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        🌳 Kharitonovsky Garden
        Харитоновский сад
        🚪 entrance from Clara Zetkin Street
        A 19th-century English park behind the estate: a pond with islands and a rotunda, little bridges and a hillock — a quiet spot a stone’s throw from the Church on the Blood.
        The garden behind the estate — a pond and a rotunda. From here it’s ≈25 minutes along Chelyuskintsev and the embankment to the Yeltsin Centre.
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        Kharitonovsky Garden
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        Kharitonovsky Garden
        © MBH · CC BY 4.0
        Kharitonovsky Garden
        © O.Bragina · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The garden was laid out in 1826 and is named after the estate’s owner, Pyotr Kharitonov.
        • The pond has two artificial islands; the rotunda on the central one was built in 1935–1937.
        • Of the original garden buildings only the grotto survives — wine was kept and ice cream made in it.
        • Prokudin-Gorsky photographed the old rotunda on the hillock in colour in 1910.
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        🖼 Yeltsin Centre
        ул. Бориса Ельцина, 3
        🎟 partly ticketed · entry to the building is free; the museum and exhibitions are ticketed
        A large centre on the bank of the Iset: a museum of the 1990s and Russia’s first president, an art gallery, a bookshop and a café. Allow 2–3 hours for the museum.
        The museum is open until 21:00 and closed on Mondays — allow 2 hours for it.
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        Yeltsin Centre
        © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Yeltsin Centre
        © Ludvig14 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Yeltsin Centre
        © Justnnow · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Yeltsin Centre
        © Александр Сигачёв · CC0
        Yeltsin Centre
        © Александр Сигачёв · CC0
        • The centre opened in 2015 next to the Yekaterinburg City district.
        • The building was designed by Boris Bernaskoni’s studio.
        • The main attraction is the Boris Yeltsin museum of Russia’s recent history.
        • Besides the museum there are an art gallery, a cinema, an archive, a library, a bookshop and a café.
        • Lectures, concerts and festivals are often held at the centre.
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        🍽 Tribu restaurant
        ул. Бориса Ельцина, 8
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        Dinner in the building next door: nelma stroganina (thin shavings of frozen raw fish) and sugudai (marinated raw fish), mini shangi (open buns). Book for the evening.
        🍴 A restaurant of fire and northern produce by the Yeltsin Centre. What to order: nelma stroganina (thin shavings of frozen raw fish) and sugudai (marinated raw fish), mini shangi (open buns), game steak.

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