Pro

People, skying, more people and nature.
Con

Not the sort of place for a Tsar
In a nutshell

I loved life here
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 7 Opinions The rroom I had was VERY well "appointed" a china cabinet with dishes, a "minibar" refrigerator, a...
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...
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...
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

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