Evening by the Plotinka: lights and a cocktail

⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 1 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

🐢 A little — under 3 km

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.

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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 mansion is lit up in the evening — we look from the bank.
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- 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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🏛 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.
Lights on the pond and the illuminated Historical Square.
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- 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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🏛 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 hall with its spire is even prettier in the evening than by day.
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- 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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🍸 Kollektiv bar
ул. 8 Марта, 8Г
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A cocktail bar in a courtyard on 8 Marta, from 18:00. Open until 4 am on Fridays and Saturdays.
🍴 A secret cocktail bar in a courtyard on 8 Marta — original takes on the classics. What to order: the “Two-Face Negroni”, “Jungle Daiquiri” or “Takeshi Collins”.