Ekaterinburg: beautiful places in the city and its surroundings

The Urals amaze everyone who comes here with the unbridled beauty of their nature. There is everything: cities, storing historical monuments, majestic mountains and clear lakes. Ural beauty is also known from the fairy tales of Bazhov, the works of Mamin-Sibiryak and Aksakov. Tourists certainly have to visit the largest city in the region - Ekaterinburg.

Beautiful places (photos of them are presented in the article) of this city and its environs will be liked by even the most experienced tourist. And the journey can be devoted to both historical sights and museums. More than a million people live in Ekaterinburg. This is a resource-rich region, which has always attracted a huge number of industrialists and entrepreneurs. Guests of the metropolis will certainly find something interesting for themselves.

Weiner Street

You can start the journey from the central part of the city, where you can find all the most interesting sights that Yekaterinburg has. Beautiful places in the center can be found everywhere. So, one of the most popular and beloved townspeople of pedestrian streets is Weiner Street. It is very pleasant for her to just take a walk in her free time, for good reason she is called the Ural Arbat. There are many different cafes, as well as shops for those who like shopping.

Selfi lovers will surely be attracted by interesting bronze sculptures, which are the highlight of this street. So, if you throw a coin on a tray "Korobeiniku", and then rub a bottle of perfume, standing here, it will certainly bring good luck and wealth. And that life rolls smoothly, the townspeople advise rubbing the wheel rim near the monument to the inventor of the bicycle Yefim Artamonov.

It is impossible not to get along with the bronze lovers who are located on the fence. Or do not imprint yourself next to an important fat banker. And this is by no means all sculptures that have made the original modern Yekaterinburg. Beautiful photos of the city certainly represent at least one of them.

Area of 1905

Following Vainer Street, you can walk to the Square of 1905. She is the main one in the city. This place appeared during the first construction of Yekaterinburg and was then called the Trading Square. In the middle of the eighteenth century, the Epiphany Church was erected here, and then the eponymous stone cathedral. A little later, the Gostiny Dvor appeared here. By the way, the square is paved with paving stones, which has been preserved since the nineteenth century. At the same time, in connection with the change in the status of the cathedral, the square received the name of the Cathedral.

In the early twentieth century, in the days of the first Russian revolution, revolutionary events took place here, and this is why the square received its last name.

The history of its monuments is also interesting. First there was erected a monument to Alexander II, then a monument to "Liberated Labor", then to Vladimir Lenin. Later on the square began to ride trams and there was a metro station. Nowadays all city holidays are held here, the main New Year tree is decorated and the main skating rink is built.

Shank

The walk can be continued along Lenin Street, in order to then visit the extraordinary sight that Ekaterinburg has (beautiful views of the city, by the way, will open from here). And this place is called Plotinka.

It is especially nice to visit here after sunset, when on the banks of the main river of the city of Iset include illumination. Thanks to the construction of the dam (by the way, this is a unique engineering structure), a pond was formed on the Iset River. Unusual building perfectly fit into the architecture of the city and became its decoration.

Every evening, the fountain jets fly to the beat of the sounding music. And all this against the background of colored lights that represent an interesting drawing.

Walking here you can visit the historic square. In it, the most romantic and picturesque is the bridge of the newlyweds.

Monuments and temples

Moving further along the main street, you can see many interesting sights, which are rightfully proud of Yekaterinburg. Beautiful buildings and monuments are located on both sides of the avenue. This is a monument to the founders of the city, and the house of Sevastyanov, theaters, museums and simply elegant residential buildings.

Pilgrims and people who love the cathedral tourism, going to the Temple on the Blood or the Trinity Cathedral usually pass along this street. The road to Ganin Yam also lies here, a place where the remains of the royal family were buried for a long time.

"Vysotsky" and the bald hills

City beauties can be seen by visiting the observation deck, which was arranged on the fifty-second floor of the tallest building, "Vysotsky", standing out against the backdrop of other buildings that adorn Yekaterinburg. Beautiful places not only of the central region, but also of the remote outskirts can be seen from the 186-meter height.

You can see many beauties of the metropolis, and if you look at the city from the meteorological station, which is located on the left bank of the river between the southern and northern slopes. Previously, it was called the Observatory, or Baldhead, a hill.

Kharitonovsky Park

Walking along the main street, you can then visit the beautiful parks that adorn Yekaterinburg. Beautiful places can be found, for example, in Kharitonovsky Park, belonging to the estate of Rastorguev-Kharitonovs. It's close to the train station.

Of interest here is the pond, in the middle of which is located an embankment island and adorns its white rotunda. In these places, vacationers are very fond of strolling, and also the newlyweds are photographed. In addition, it is here that various music festivals are often held.

Arboretum

Another green corner of the city - arboretum - is also one of the places that are worth visiting, coming to Yekaterinburg. Beautiful places can be found in this park, divided in two, almost at every step.

The first part of the park (located on Eighth March street) exists since 1948, and the second - since 1932. Here you can admire a huge number of plants, trees, a magnificent rose garden, flower beds, flower beds, walk along the shore of a pond in which ducks are found. Dendarii is well-maintained and well-groomed.

Surroundings

Visiting Ekaterinburg, beautiful places outside the city, too, can not be ignored. The neighborhood of this megalopolis is delicious. It is not without reason that in their books such famous writers described them with such love. So, continuing the theme of parks, you can recall the park "Bazhovskie Places" or the park "Deer Streams", worthy of attention of tourists.

Devil's fortress is another unusual place that beautifies Yekaterinburg. Beautiful places, hidden behind such a name, are rock-remnants. They are located on the top of the mountain. All together they make up a stone wall. These are flat slabs of gray color, collected in an impregnable tower. They are also called stone tents. Once in prehistoric times here sacrificed to the gods.

This tract is the Upper Iset granite massif. Much here refers to the archaeological monuments of a city like Yekaterinburg. Beautiful places with a historical past are an important source of facts for scientists and an object of interest for tourists.

The mountains

The Ural Mountains give a magnificent view to the outskirts , each of which has its own name, for example, the Volchikha Mountain, Yezhovaya, Pilova and others.

Here, till now, rich minerals are found in various mines. The decoration, which is of great interest to archaeologists, is the cliffs of the Upper-Isetsky Mountains. The most interesting thing here is the ancient images. These drawings are called pisanitsy and pysanka. Surprisingly, such drawings on the rocks are not destroyed by the impact of nature, although they are in the open air. Neither rain, nor snow, nor wind, they are not terrible. Drawings have been many thousands of years.

Mitkinsky Lakes

Not less picturesque look against the background of mountains and a lake. And some of them are man-made. For example, the Mitkin Lakes arose in their place after the old mines were flooded there. The same is the story of Talcovsky stone and lakes near the town of Berezovsky.

In general, it is amazing, but it is in Yekaterinburg that natural beauty is surprisingly combined with technologies of different centuries that do not spoil the landscape. For example, a quarry called the "Old Lens" - here once extracted talc.

Lake Shartash

Lovers of fishing will certainly enjoy visiting Shartash Lake. There is a large number of fish. The name of the lake is derived from the color of the rocks surrounding it.

"Shartash" in translation from Turkic means "yellow stones". Unlike other lakes, the name was formed more than a million years ago. For several centuries here there were gold-mining mines, as well as a quarry that is still working, in which granite is being developed. It is at the top of the Shrotash mountains that there are stone rocks for sacrifices. Archaeologists found that people lived here in the Neolithic period.