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      Vtuzgorodok and the Stone Tents

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 4.1 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      By tram to the student district of Vtuzgorodok and the UrFU colonnade, then into the pine forest to the granite rocks and the shore of Lake Shartash.

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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.
        Tram 13 or 15 from Ploshchad 1905 Goda to the UrFU stop, ≈20 minutes, then 7 minutes along Lenina to Kirova Square. The colonnade and the garden square in front of the building.
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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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        ☕️ Brodsky Coffee on Pervomayskaya
        Первомайская ул., 90
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        Breakfast or lunch a stone’s throw from the building.
        🍴 A coffee shop with breakfasts by the UrFU main building. What to order: an English breakfast, pancakes with sour cream, tres leches cake.
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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.
        ≈20 minutes along Mira and Vysotskogo. Granite “mattresses” 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 north along a forest track to the lakeshore. At the end of October there may be the first snow.
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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.

      ↩️ Getting back: to the Kamennye Palatki stop (≈15 minutes), trams 13 and 15 to Ploshchad 1905 Goda, ≈25 minutes

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