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      Along the Iset: the dendropark, the pond and Kharitonovsky Garden

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 5.3 km🍽 1📍 7 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      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.

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      1. 1
        🌳 Dendropark on 8 Marta
        ул. 8 Марта, 37А
        🚪 entrance from 8 Marta Street
        A small park with rare trees between 8 Marta and Kuibysheva streets — quiet and close to the centre.
        Start on 8 Marta: paths among rare trees and the chapel of St Alexander Nevsky.
        🚪 exit to Radishchev Street
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        Dendropark on 8 Marta
        © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Dendropark on 8 Marta
        © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The Dendropark on 8 Marta was created in 1948 together with a tree nursery.
        • Yekaterinburg has two dendroparks — the second is on Pervomayskaya Street.
        • The park has a chapel of St Alexander Nevsky.
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      3. 2
        🌳 Historical Square
        ул. Горького и ул. Воеводина, у Плотинки
        A park on the site of the first ironworks: old factory buildings, a water tower, 19th-century machinery in the open air and the Iset embankment.
        ≈10 minutes north along the Iset embankment to the square and the dam.
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        Historical Square
        © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Historical Square
        © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The square opened in 1973, for the city’s 250th anniversary, on the site of the Yekaterinburg ironworks.
        • On the left bank of the Iset is a museum zone with old factory buildings; on the right, a memorial zone.
        • The square covers about 8 hectares.
        • The water tower was built in the early 1890s: granite below and a log frame with a lantern on top.
        • The “stone garden” displays Ural minerals — the specimens were chosen by the prospector G. G. Kitaev.
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      5. 3
        🏛 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 — then on along the embankment by the pond.
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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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      7. 4
        🚶 Rabochey Molodyozhi Embankment
        набережная Рабочей молодёжи, от Плотинки к Ельцин Центру
        A pedestrian embankment along the City Pond from the Plotinka to the Yeltsin Centre and the towers of Yekaterinburg City.
        Rabochey Molodyozhi Embankment: water, ducks and the City towers ahead. Cold in the wind.
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        Rabochey Molodyozhi Embankment
        © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Rabochey Molodyozhi Embankment
        © Ludvig14 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Rabochey Molodyozhi Embankment
        © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
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      9. 5
        🍽 Breadway
        ул. Бориса Ельцина, 6
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        Lunch at the restaurant-bakery by the Yeltsin Centre.
        🍴 A large, bright restaurant-bakery by the Yeltsin Centre, with breakfast from 9:00. What to order: lasagne, roast beef salad, mille-feuille or burnt white chocolate cream.
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      11. 6
        🌳 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.
        ≈15 minutes along Chelyuskintsev and Proletarskaya to Voznesenskaya Hill.
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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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      13. 7
        🌳 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.
        Finish in the English garden: a pond with a rotunda and a grotto. The paths are slippery in the slush.
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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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