Places to see in Yekaterinburg

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🏛 Plotinka
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…
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🌳 Historical Square
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…
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🖼 Museum of Architecture and Design
A museum in the buildings of the old ironworks by the Plotinka: models, the history of Ural architecture and a yard with steam engines and…
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🏛 1905 Square
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.
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🚶 Vainera Street
The pedestrian “Ural Arbat”: merchants’ houses, bronze figures of townspeople, cafés and shops from Prospekt Lenina to Kuibysheva Street.
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🏛 Sevastyanov House
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…
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🏛 House of Communications (Main Post Office)
The Constructivist main post office of 1933 on Truda Square. By the entrance is the bronze zero-kilometre marker.
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🌳 Literary Quarter
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.
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🖼 Museum of Literary Life of the Urals in the 19th Century
A wooden mansion in the Literary Quarter: books, manuscripts and the furnishings of Ural literary salons of the century before last.
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🏛 Church on the Blood
A five-domed church on the site of the Ipatiev House, where the family of Nicholas II was shot in 1918. Below is a dim lower church, and…
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🏛 Church of the Ascension
The city’s oldest surviving church, at the top of Voznesenskaya Hill, opposite the Kharitonov estate.
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🏛 Rastorguyev–Kharitonov Estate
A Neoclassical early 19th-century estate with a colonnade on Voznesenskaya Hill; behind it is an English garden with a pond.
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🌳 Kharitonovsky Garden
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…
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🖼 Yeltsin Centre
A large centre on the bank of the Iset: a museum of the 1990s and Russia’s first president, an art gallery, a bookshop and a café. Allow…
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🚶 Rabochey Molodyozhi Embankment
A pedestrian embankment along the City Pond from the Plotinka to the Yeltsin Centre and the towers of Yekaterinburg City.
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🖼 Museum of Fine Arts: the Kasli Pavilion
The main building of the Museum of Fine Arts on the Iset: the cast-iron Kasli Pavilion from the 1900 Paris exhibition, Russian painting and…
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🖼 Hermitage-Ural
The Museum of Fine Arts building on Vainera, the former Granit printing house: Western European sculpture and painting and joint…
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🖼 Nevyansk Icon Museum
Russia’s first private icon museum: hundreds of Nevyansk icons of the 18th–20th centuries with gold backgrounds and an Old Believer history.
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🖼 Museum of Stone-Cutting and Jewellery Art
Ural gemstones, malachite, jasper and jewellery from ancient times to the present — in the 1820s mining pharmacy building on Prospekt…
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🖼 Museum of the History of Yekaterinburg
The city museum in an 1820 mansion: how an ironworks on the Iset became a city of a million, from Tatishchev to the present day.
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🏛 “Wall of Angels” street art
A large mural from the Stenografia festival on 8 Marta Street — one of the most striking murals in the centre.
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🏛 Street art at Tolmacheva, 12
The courtyards by Tolmacheva, 12: several Stenografia works in one place — a paper aeroplane, patterns and lettering.
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🏛 House of Offices
Early Constructivism of 1929 on the corner of 8 Marta and Malysheva: a rounded corner and shop-window ground-floor windows.
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🏛 House of the Press
The Constructivist building of the Uralsky Rabochy newspaper of 1930 on Prospekt Lenina — with ribbon windows and a corner tower.
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🏛 Bolshoy Ural Hotel
A huge 1930s hotel by the Opera House — the transition from Constructivism to the Stalinist style. We look from outside.
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🏛 Chekists’ Town and the Iset Hotel
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…
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🌅 Vysotsky viewing platform
An open platform behind tall glass on the 52nd floor, 186 metres up: the whole city from above — the pond, the Plotinka, the towers of…
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🏛 UrFU Main Building
The colonnade of the main building of the Ural Polytechnic — the end of Prospekt Lenina and the heart of the student district of…
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✨ Yekaterinburg Zoo
A compact zoo in the centre: lions, bears, pelicans, warm pavilions and an aquarium — easy with small children.
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🖼 Popov Radio Museum
An old house on Rozy Lyuksemburg with vintage radio sets, telephones and telegraph equipment — schoolchildren find it interesting.
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🖼 Ural Geological Museum
The treasures of the Urals at the Mining University: malachite, gemstones, gold and meteorites — more than 40,000 specimens.
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🌳 Dendropark on 8 Marta
A small park with rare trees between 8 Marta and Kuibysheva streets — quiet and close to the centre.
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🏛 1st Five-Year Plan Square
The grand square of Uralmash in front of the factory gates: the factory management building, the Madrid Hotel and the three radiating…
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🏛 Palace of Folk Art (Uralmash Palace of Culture)
The former Palace of Culture of the Uralmash plant — a huge Modernist palace above the park on Festivalnaya Street.
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🏛 White Tower
The 1931 Uralmash water tower — the symbol of Sverdlovsk Constructivism. We look from outside: it’s currently closed inside.
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🌳 Shartash Stone Tents
Granite “mattress” rocks up to 20 metres high in a pine forest — you can climb them. A nature monument right in the city.
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🌳 Lake Shartash
A large forest lake on the edge of the city: pines and paths along the water.
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🏛 Yekaterinburg-Passazhirsky Station
The main railway station by Uralskaya metro: Finist trains and suburban trains to Nevyansk leave from here.
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🏛 Southern Bus Station
A bus station near Botanicheskaya metro (≈10 min on foot): buses to Sysert leave from here.
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🏛 Mashinostroiteley metro (the Peduniversitet stop)
A northern metro station; by the exit to Frontovykh Brigad Street is the turnaround where bus 223 leaves for Ganina Yama.
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🏛 Prospekt Kosmonavtov metro
The terminus of the metro in Uralmash; 5 minutes away is the Ulitsa Frezerovshchikov tram loop, where tram 333 leaves for Verkhnyaya Pyshma.
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🏛 Nevyansk Station
A station on the Yekaterinburg — Nizhny Tagil line; the tower is ≈2.5 km away through the town.
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🏛 Leaning Tower of Nevyansk
A Demidov tower of the 1720s with a noticeable lean, a chiming clock and a “listening room” — the main symbol of Nevyansk and of the whole…
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🏛 Transfiguration Cathedral
A white 19th-century cathedral next to the tower — together they make the best panorama of Nevyansk from the shore of the pond.
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🖼 Podvintsev Estate
A merchant’s house with a museum of “Nevyansk meanings”: the life and ways of Nevyansk merchants.
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🖼 UMMC Military Equipment Museum
A huge museum complex in Verkhnyaya Pyshma: hundreds of tanks, aircraft, locomotives and guns in the open air and in pavilions.
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🖼 UMMC Automobile Museum
A heated pavilion of vintage cars: from the first Benz cars and Rolls-Royces to the Pobeda, ZiS cars and a DeLorean.
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🏛 Ganina Yama Monastery
A wooden monastery in a pine forest by an old mine, where the bodies of the royal family were brought in 1918. Seven churches — one for…
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🏛 Sysert Bus Station
The bus station on Lenina Street: buses from Yekaterinburg’s Southern Bus Station arrive here.
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🖼 Bazhov House Museum in Sysert
A small wooden house on a quiet street, linked to the childhood of the author of “The Malachite Casket”: his tales, the life of a factory…
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🌅 Viewpoint over the Sysert Pond
A view of the factory pond, the dam and the old ironworks from a hill on Bykova Street — the best spot in Sysert.
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🖼 Sysert Ironworks Museum
A museum on the grounds of the old ironworks: the history of the Sysert works and tours of the site.
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