Blog about Urals

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.

The historical centre of the city is the dam situated on Lenina avenue. The route I suggest starts near it – from central subway station called the square of 1905 (Ploshchad 1905 goda), on the picture attached it is the point number one. The route finishes in the point number 18 – here is the house of officers and a restaurant with traditional russian cooking, named USSR (CCCP).
So let me describe other points and directions briefly.
1 – you are standing near central subway station and the street you are at is called “8 marta”. In google maps it’s “ulitsa 8 marta” cause ulitsa means a street. Let’s go to the parallel street called “Vaynera”.
2 – you are on Vaynera street, it’s the favourite place of walk for many citizens. This street is an analog of Moscow’s arbad. Let’s cross Lenina avenue (“prospekt Lenina”) and go to the embankment of the city pond.

3 – you are near the building of government of Sverdlovskaya oblast, and you can see a wonderful view of the city, the most charming in this view is a cathedral, you’ll see it for sure, this cathedral is in this route also.
4 – the Drama theatre, let’s go over the embankment to the main street, “prospekt Lenina”
5 – as soon as you are on prospekt Lenina you’ll see the main square and the building of city administration, let’s turn left and come through the dam

6 – the house of Sevastyanov, built in the first quarter of XIX century, it just rivets eyes, so let’s go over another side of the embankment, to the gem of the city – cathedral on the blood
7 – on the way to the cathedral you’ll see the cinema and concert hall “Cosmos”
8 – the Cathedral on the blood. It was build on the place where last russian emperor Nikolay II and his family were killed.
9 – If you look into the distance you’ll see another church and old buildings near it. So these buildings compose old architectural ensemble, built in the end of XIII century
10 – the church of Ascension, but let’s go back to Lenina avenue
11 – philharmonic society, and nearby there are museums and cinema
12 – the theatre of musical comedy
13 – (!!!) here you can see the city panorama, in antey entertainment complex, often called antey tower
14 – the Opera theatre
15 – here it’s better to cross the road
16 – Urals State University
17 – the memorial called black tulip, to warriors who participated in Afghanistan war
18 – house of officers and the “CCCP” restaurant
The route takes about 2 hours and can be done during the day or at evening.
You can walk alone, but with a guide it will be more interesting. If you want me to be your guide, please contact me. You are welcome to Yekaterinburg!

house of the government

embankment of the city pond

chess players on the dam

cathedral on the blood

church of Ascension

Urals State University

concert hall Cosmos

the Opera theatre