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      All day: Constructivism, Vtuzgorodok and the Stone Tents

      ⏱ 9 h 30 min🚶 9 km + 🚋🍽 2📍 10 stops
      🏃 A lot — over 7 km

      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.

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        🏛 House of Offices
        ул. Малышева, 42 / ул. 8 Марта, 10
        Early Constructivism of 1929 on the corner of 8 Marta and Malysheva: a rounded corner and shop-window ground-floor windows.
        5 minutes from Ploshchad 1905 Goda metro along 8 Marta: a rounded corner and shop windows of 1929.
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        House of Offices
        © Митрохина Марина · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The building was put up in 1929 by the architects G. P. Valenkov and V. I. Smirnov.
        • It was built for trading offices and the bank of the Union of Agricultural Cooperatives.
        • The ground-floor windows were designed as shop windows.
        • During the war it housed evacuation hospital No. 1708.
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        🏛 House of Communications (Main Post Office)
        просп. Ленина, 39
        The Constructivist main post office of 1933 on Truda Square. By the entrance is the bronze zero-kilometre marker.
        The bronze zero-kilometre marker is by the entrance.
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        House of Communications (Main Post Office)
        © HappLuck · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The building was put up in 1933 by the architects K. I. Solomonov and V. D. Sokolov.
        • A bronze plate is set by the entrance — the zero kilometre from which distances are measured.
        • The corner of the building dominates Truda Square.
        • The building had a radio theatre with 600 seats.
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        🏛 House of the Press
        просп. Ленина, 49
        The Constructivist building of the Uralsky Rabochy newspaper of 1930 on Prospekt Lenina — with ribbon windows and a corner tower.
        Ribbon windows and a corner tower of 1930.
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        House of the Press
        © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The building was put up in 1929–1930 for the Uralsky Rabochy newspaper and its printing works.
        • During the war it housed the Writers’ Union, headed by Pavel Bazhov, and evacuated writers lived here.
        • The House of the Press is an architectural monument of federal importance.
        • There is a bookshop on the lower ground floor.
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        🏛 Bolshoy Ural Hotel
        Красноармейская ул., 1
        A huge 1930s hotel by the Opera House — the transition from Constructivism to the Stalinist style. We look from outside.
        The hotel by the Opera House — Constructivism turning into the Stalinist style.
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        Bolshoy Ural Hotel
        © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Bolshoy Ural Hotel
        © Artyom Svetlov · CC BY 4.0
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        🏛 Chekists’ Town and the Iset Hotel
        просп. Ленина, 69
        An NKVD commune quarter of 1929–1936: the horseshoe of the Iset Hotel, a club with a cylinder and residential blocks set at an angle to the street.
        Walk round the quarter: the Iset horseshoe, the club with its cylinder, the blocks at an angle to the street.
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        Chekists’ Town and the Iset Hotel
        © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Chekists’ Town and the Iset Hotel
        © MBH · CC BY 4.0
        Chekists’ Town and the Iset Hotel
        © MBH · CC BY 4.0
        • The complex was built in 1929–1936 for OGPU–NKVD staff; the lead architect was I. P. Antonov.
        • There are 14 buildings in all; the largest is the 11-storey “horseshoe”, later the Iset Hotel.
        • The residential blocks are turned at 10 degrees to the street line — this gives the quarter its rhythm.
        • The Dzerzhinsky Club with its side cylinder was linked to the “horseshoe” by an overhead walkway.
        • Chekists’ Town is a monument of federal importance.
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        🍽 Khmeli Suneli in Chekists’ Town · 🧸 play area
        просп. Ленина, 69, корп. 10
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        Lunch in a Chekists’ Town building: khinkali (soup dumplings) and kharcho (spicy rice soup).
        🍴 A Georgian restaurant in a Chekists’ Town building, with a kids’ room. What to order: khinkali (soup dumplings), veal kharcho (spicy rice soup), khachapuri (cheese bread).
      12. 🚋 tram 13 or 15 from the Ulitsa Bazhova stop (5 minutes from Chekists’ Town) to UrFU, ≈10 min; then 7 minutes along Lenina
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        🏛 UrFU Main Building
        ул. Мира, 19 (площадь Кирова)
        The colonnade of the main building of the Ural Polytechnic — the end of Prospekt Lenina and the heart of the student district of Vtuzgorodok.
        The colonnade of the main building and the garden square on Kirova Square.
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        UrFU Main Building
        © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        UrFU Main Building
        © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        UrFU Main Building
        © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The buildings of the Ural Polytechnic Institute were put up from 1929 to 1956.
        • In front of the building is a 4.3-hectare garden square on Kirova Square.
        • It is now the main teaching building of Ural Federal University.
        • The monument to Kirov, after whom the square is named, was put up in 1983.
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        🌳 Shartash Stone Tents
        лесопарк Каменные Палатки, ул. Высоцкого
        Granite “mattress” rocks up to 20 metres high in a pine forest — you can climb them. A nature monument right in the city.
        ≈30 minutes along Mira and Vysotskogo. Granite rocks among the pines; don’t climb to the top when it’s damp.
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        Shartash Stone Tents
        © Artyom Svetlov · CC BY 4.0
        Shartash Stone Tents
        © MBH · CC BY 4.0
        Shartash Stone Tents
        © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The rocks are part of the Shartash granite massif, about 300 million years old.
        • The ridge stretches for 80–100 metres, and the rocks are 10–20 metres high.
        • Traces of settlements from the 3rd millennium BC have been found nearby.
        • The rocks became a protected nature monument in 1960.
        • Granite quarrying here was stopped in 1915 by members of the Ural Society of Natural History Enthusiasts.
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        🌳 Lake Shartash
        берег у ул. Отдыха
        A large forest lake on the edge of the city: pines and paths along the water.
        ≈15 minutes along a forest track to the lakeshore. At the end of October there may be the first snow, and it gets dark around 17:00.
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        Lake Shartash
        © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The lake formed about a million years ago.
        • The name is Turkic: it is usually translated as “yellow stone” — after the colour of the shore rocks.
        • Traces of people from the Late Neolithic have been found on its shores.
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      19. 10
        🍽 Troekurov restaurant · 🧸 play area
        ул. Малышева, 137
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        Dinner: pancakes with caviar and smoked omul (a Baikal whitefish). ≈25 minutes on foot from the lake, or 5 minutes by taxi.
        🍴 A Russian restaurant in Vtuzgorodok, with a kids’ room. What to order: pancakes with caviar, smoked omul (a Baikal whitefish), kholodets (meat aspic) with khrenovina (horseradish relish).

      ↩️ Getting back: ≈15 minutes on foot to the tram 13 and 15 stop on Prospekt Lenina by UrFU, ≈20 minutes to Ploshchad 1905 Goda

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