Sights of Yekaterinburg

1.

SIGHTS OF
YEKATERINBURG
PRESENTATION BY
EKATERINA PUSHKAREVA,
GROUP V-206

2.

THE TEMPLE ON BLOOD
• This is a large functioning
church, which was built on the
site where the royal family was
shot. Previously, there was the
house of the military civil
engineer Ipatiev. In 1918, the
family of Nicholas II was kept
there, in 1977 the house was
demolished, and by 2003 a
temple was built in three years.
Free admission.

3.

MONUMENT TO THE KEYBOARD
• This is a funny art object on the Iset
embankment, which was even written
about in the New York Times. The
keyboard is 30 times larger than a
standard one and is made of white
concrete blocks weighing from 100 to
500 kg. TASS reports that this is the
second most popular search query
among monuments in RuNet. The
object is really cool.

4.

PLOTINKA
• Plotinka is the place where
Yekaterinburg began. It was built in
1723 for a metallurgical plant, and from
there the city grew for the next three
centuries. There is a street with a
highway on the dam; there are crossings
for pedestrians on the sides. In the right
passage of Plotinka, Tsoi’s fans will be
pleasantly surprised: on the walls there
are large graffiti of the musician and
quotes from his songs.

5.

SEVASTYANOV'S HOUSE
• Looking at the scale and exquisite style,
Sevastyanov’s mansion would rather be
called a palace than an ordinary house.
The architecture of the building
combines several architectural styles,
including eclecticism, baroque, neoMoorish and even a little gothic. Now
there are excursions around the interior
of the mansion, where you can see with
your own eyes how the nobles lived in
Yekaterinburg 150 years ago.

6.

MUSEUM OF LOCAL LORE
• The current museum building was built at
the beginning of the last century and
made it possible to make the exhibition
publicly accessible to a wide range of
people, because before that the exhibits
were kept at home by local historians or
placed in small rooms. As of 2022, the
collections of the Sverdlovsk Regional
Museum of Local Lore contain more
than 700 thousand exhibits, and the
number of visitors annually is about 300
thousand people.

7.

BLACK TULIP
• The Afghan and Chechen wars became
one of the bloodiest conflicts of the late
20th century, claiming the lives of several
thousand soldiers. Many Yekaterinburg
residents also died on the battlefields, in
memory of whom the “Black Tulip”
memorial was erected on Soviet Army
Square in 1995. An Afghan soldier sits in
the center of the composition, and on
the sides there are memorial plaques
with the names of the fallen, imitating
the fuselage of a transport aircraft.

8.

BUSINESS CENTER "VYSOTSKY"
• The Vysotsky business center is the
second tallest building in Yekaterinburg.
It’s worth visiting for the viewpoint and
restaurants, but mainly for the rooftop
pool. It opened only in 2022 and
became the first swimming pool on a
skyscraper in the entire country. In two
bowls 20 and 11 meters long you can
swim with a unique view of the city, and
in the saunas here you can relax from
the heart.

9.

YELTSIN CENTER
• There are galleries, educational centers, shops
and restaurants here, and creative meetings
and lectures are regularly held. However,
tourists will be mainly interested in the Boris
Yeltsin Museum: a large exhibition about how
Russia moved from the Soviet era to the
modern one, and about the role of the first
president in this process. The museum was
recognized as one of the best in Europe, and
the technologies that immerse the guest in the
era are easier to experience than to describe.

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