🏛 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 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.