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      Uralmash: Pyatiletki Square and the White Tower

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 3 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      The socialist town of the “factory of factories”: the grand square in front of the gates, radiating streets of 1930s houses, a huge Palace of Culture and the White Tower — the icon of Ural Constructivism.

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      1. 1
        🏛 1st Five-Year Plan Square
        площадь 1-й Пятилетки, ул. Машиностроителей
        The grand square of Uralmash in front of the factory gates: the factory management building, the Madrid Hotel and the three radiating streets of the socialist town.
        ≈15 minutes from Uralmash metro along Mashinostroiteley. The square in front of the factory gates, the management building and the Madrid.
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        1st Five-Year Plan Square
        © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        1st Five-Year Plan Square
        © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The square was built up in 1928–1935 to a design by the Uralmash architect Pyotr Oransky.
        • Kultury Boulevard, Prospekt Ordzhonikidze and Ilyicha Street radiate from it.
        • The first to be built were the factory gatehouses (1930) and the apartment buildings at Ilyicha, 2 and Kultury Boulevard, 2.
        • The 1933 Madrid Hotel combines Constructivism and Classicism.
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      3. 2
        🍽 Zhadina Govyadina · 🧸 play area
        Кировградская ул., 28
        ▮▮▮▯▯
        Lunch on Kirovgradskaya, with a kids’ room.
        🍴 A restaurant in Uralmash with a kids’ room. What to order: veal cannelloni, kholodets (meat aspic), pickles.
      4. 🚶 on foot
      5. 3
        🏛 Palace of Folk Art (Uralmash Palace of Culture)
        Фестивальная ул., 12
        The former Palace of Culture of the Uralmash plant — a huge Modernist palace above the park on Festivalnaya Street.
        The former Uralmash Palace of Culture above the park — we look from outside.
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        Palace of Folk Art (Uralmash Palace of Culture)
        © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The first club for the plant’s builders was a wooden one, in the 1920s.
        • The present palace was designed after 1965 — the earlier design was rejected during the campaign against architectural “excesses”.
        • It now houses the Sverdlovsk Regional Palace of Folk Art.
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      7. 4
        🏛 White Tower
        ул. Бакинских Комиссаров, 2А
        The 1931 Uralmash water tower — the symbol of Sverdlovsk Constructivism. We look from outside: it’s currently closed inside.
        The 1931 water tower. You can’t go inside at the moment — walk all the way round it.
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        White Tower
        © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The tower was built in 1929–1931 to a design by Moisei Reisher.
        • It is one of the first reinforced-concrete structures in Sverdlovsk.
        • The tower was taken out of service in the 1960s and stood empty for a long time.
        • Since 2012 it has been restored by the Podelniki architectural group.
        • In 2020 the restoration project received a grant from the Getty Foundation.

      ↩️ Getting back: ≈25 minutes on foot along Kultury and Kirovgradskaya to Uralmash metro, then ≈15 minutes by metro to Ploshchad 1905 Goda

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