AI generatedYekaterinburg
Russia · Sverdlovsk Oblast · 255 m
Short description of Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg (Екатеринбург) is the industrial capital of the Urals and the halfway house of the Trans-Siberian, founded as an ironworks and still built around the dam and pond at its centre. The last tsar and his family were shot in a cellar here in 1918, and the Church on the Blood now stands on the site. Twenty kilometres west a marked obelisk in the forest sits on the line between Europe and Asia, and visitors stand with a foot on each continent. The city also holds some of the boldest constructivist architecture built anywhere in the Soviet Union.
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Best time to visit: May – September
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- Church on the Blood on the Romanov execution site
- Europe and Asia border obelisk(Day trip)
- Yeltsin Center
- Historic Square and the old ironworks dam
- Sevastyanov House on the city pond
- Vysotsky tower observation deck
- Ganina Yama monastery in the forest(Day trip)
- Constructivist Chekist Town and Uralmash
- Shigir Idol, the oldest wooden sculpture in the world
- Museum of Fine Arts and the Kasli iron pavilion
- Red Line self-guided city walk
- Rastorguyev-Kharitonov Palace and its park
- Vaynera pedestrian street
- Ural Mineralogical Museum
- Deer Streams nature park(Day trip)