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People, skying, more people and nature.
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Not the sort of place for a Tsar
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I loved life here
Noel_Leon Says: This is the place where - in the night of July 17th, 1918 - the bodies of the Romanov family were hidden after their execution at Ipatev House in Yekaterinburg.It was an abandoned mine, located near the village of Koptyaki, 15 km north from the city.Actually, the Bolsheviks...
Noel_Leon Says: This massive building with its evident Stalinist appearance houses today the City Hall an the local Duma. It is placed in the central square named Ploshchad 1905 Goda. The large cathedral which used to stand in this square was demolished in year 1930, as well as a statue of...
Noel_Leon Says: During the Soviet times Yekaterinburg was renamed as Sverdlovsk, after the name of a famous Bolshevik party leader. In 1991 it returned to its original name, but most of the street names are still unchanged. Among them, I was surprised to find Ulitsa Sacco and Vanzetti, a...
Noel_Leon Says: This stone was placed for the 250th anniversary of Yekaterinburg's foundation and it marks the spot where the first metallurgical plant was built. The town owes its origin to this metal-working plant and by the standards of those days it was one of the best in whole Europe....
Noel_Leon Says: This bare feet couple must look quite odd in wintertime when temperatures can get as low as 40°C below zero... You can meet them in Ulitsa Vaynera, a pedestian street in the city center with botiques, restaurants, and modern shopping centers. Somebody call it the 'Arbat of...
Noel_Leon Says: This giant obelisk to country's first post-Soviet leader was recently unveild on Feb. 1st, 2011, a date which would have marked Boris Yeltsin's 80th birthday. It was in Yekaterinburg that he was born and he started his political career. It is a 10 metrs high white marble...
walking tour over Yekaterinburg
sunady Says: If you arrived in Yekaterinburg the best thing to start with is an acquaintance with the city. Currently I'm preparing this excursion and would like to share this info. So, the historical centre of the city is the dam situated on Lenina avenue. The route I suggest starts...
sunady Says: Russian baths - one of the favourite russian fun.Taking a steam bath is one of the most ancient traditions of russian people. This procedure is done not only to be washed, but also to relax both - body and soul. Typical Russian baths ("banya") is a small wooden house,...
Annual events in Yekaterinburg
sunady Says: December - January: Ice Town openswhen: 29th of December or earlier, where: the square of 1905 year (ploshad tisyacha devyatsot pyatogo goda)January: Epiphany with swimming in ice hole - extremly popular activity for brave people :)))when: 19th of January, where: city lake...
Sandfire Says: We went husky sledding in the Ural Mountains through On the Go Tours, with a company called Visit Ural - no, I don't work for them!! Our tour guide was Anna who speaks excellent english and was absolutely lovely, and our driver and husky team owner was Pavel, who holds a few...
sgershtein Says: This cathedral was build in the place where Russian czar and all his family were executed in 1918 after Russian revolution. The czar family was kept and executed in Ipatiev house. The house was later destroyed (by Yeltsin's order) in 1980s not to live tracks of what happened...
1 Review and 26 Opinions I stayed in a standard room in August 2011. The average price of my stay, with discount for...
1 Review and 7 Opinions The rroom I had was VERY well "appointed" a china cabinet with dishes, a "minibar" refrigerator, a...
Mc Peak/ 'Mac Pik': Eating at Mc Peak/'Mac Pik'
jeoren Says: West of the citycentre on the southside of Prospekt Lenina, (look at the map on this site) you'll find a rather big fast-food restaurant where they sell several chickenmeals, ice-creams and more stuff like Mc Donalds. Nice to have a seat at the window, overviewing the people...
filip007 Says: Tinkoff is the name of a chain of pubs/breweries across all Russia - today they have around 13 pubs.Great modern design in all breweries and you can see the stainless steel tanks from where you sit. This one in Ekaterinburg has an interesting layout with three stories...
sverdlovsk44 Says: Renting a car in Ekaterinburg was quite simple and didn't cause much problems. I just contacted a local company offering car rental services, their friendly stuff speak English well. The car was waiting for me at the airport, i signed the papers, payed in cash (credit card...
grye Says: getting a Taxi in Yekaterinburg is exactly like hitchhiking, so 1) if you want to get anyplace just hitch, & 2) expect to pay for it, but not really much.Literally just stick your hand out or up, & a car will pull over. Usually not marked as a Taxi Cab, just a car. I never...
histamin32 Says: Locals have warned us that after 22h00 groups of young men may assault foreigners, especially outside of the centre of town. Whether this is true or not, we cannot tell, but we have heard this independently from several sources. We ourselves always felt safe and there was no...
bijo69 Says: Most travel agencies offer trips to see the European/Asian border. Well, these days there are actually two of them, the newer one being a bit closer to town. Unless you you want to say that you had one leg in Europe and the other one in Asia, forget it...it's just too...
sgershtein Says: On the third weekend of August there is a so called day of the city in Yekaterinburg. This is a festival with lots of interesting things going on around the town. One of the events that most of the tourists miss is an aviation show that takes place in a small Uktus airport....
Upstate1NY Says: Talk about hidden, "Off the Beaten Path", this was about as obscure as it could get, no sign age, a real "side street" location, in an area that does not look at all inviting to the wary eye. Right across the street was a house that was falling in, the roof was collapsed,...
jeoren Says: A dramatic episode in the area took place on May 1, 1960 when American U2 spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers was hit by a missile launched from the local military base. The city was closed to the outside world until 1990 because of its strategic defense industries.
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On the line between Europe and Asia - I have lived in Yekaterinburg for all my life. Minus travels around Russia and abroad:) This city is not like others. You ask, what makes it so unique? Besides its almost tercentennial history,...
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Q: I need to travel from Yekaterinburg airport to the city of Chelyabinskaya, and am trying to find out the best way of doing so. I...
A: Hi, you can get from Yekaterinburg to Chelyabinsk by train N 830. It’ll take you 4 hours 20 min. It starts at 16.00 and arrives at 20.20. ...
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Of original Ekaterinburg – the fortress and then world's best iron-making works – there has survived next to nothing. Only the dam – or, to be more exact, just the body of it; its facade has been...
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Cathedral of the Holy Royal Martyrs. Built on the site of the house where the last royal family of Imperial Russia was murdered on orders of Viladimir Lenin. Boris Yeltsin had the house demolished...
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Yekaterinburg is the capital of Urals region, and it is considered to be the 3rd capital of Russia, after Moscow and St.Petersburg. Its population is about 1.5 mln of inhabitants. It was founded in......
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On the line between Europe and Asia
I have lived in Yekaterinburg for all my life. Minus travels around Russia and abroad:) This city is not like others. You ask, what makes it so unique? Besides its almost tercentennial history,...
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