Yekaterinburg: beautiful places in the city and surroundings

Урал поражает всех, кто сюда приезжает, the unbridled beauty of its nature. There is everything here: 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 should definitely visit the largest city in the region - Yekaterinburg.

Beautiful places (photos are presented in the article)even the most sophisticated tourist will like this city and its environs. And the journey can be devoted to both historical sites and museums. More than a million people live in Yekaterinburg. This is a region rich in natural resources, which has always attracted a huge number of industrialists and entrepreneurs. Guests of the megalopolis will surely find something interesting for themselves.

Weiner Street

You can start the journey from the centercities, where all the most interesting sights, which Ekaterinburg has, are located. Beautiful places in the center can be found everywhere. So, one of the most popular and favorite townspeople pedestrian streets is Weiner Street. It is very nice to just walk along it in your free time, no wonder it is called the Ural Arbat. There are many different cafes, as well as shops for those who love shopping.

Self-lovers will surely attract interestingbronze sculptures that are the highlight of this street. So, if you throw a coin on the tray to the Korobeinik, and then rub the bottle of perfume standing here, it will certainly bring good luck and wealth. And so that life rolls smoothly, citizens advise to rub the rim of the wheel at the monument to the inventor of a bicycle, Efim Artamonov.

You can not get hooked to the bronze lovers,located on the fence. Or do not capture yourself next to an important fat banker. And this is not all the sculptures that made modern Yekaterinburg original. Beautiful photos of the city certainly depict at least one of them.

Square 1905

Following the street Weiner, you can walk to the Square1905 She is the main city. This place appeared during the primary construction of Yekaterinburg and was then called the Torgovaya Square. In the middle of the eighteenth century, the Epiphany Church was erected there, and then the eponymous stone cathedral. A little later, 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, due to the change in the status of the cathedral, the square received the name of the Cathedral.

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

The history of its monuments is also interesting.First, a monument to Alexander II was erected here, then a monument to “Liberated Labor”, then V.I. Lenin. Later on the square began to ride trams and a subway station appeared. Nowadays, all city holidays are held here, the main New Year tree is decorated and the main rink is being built.

Dam

The walk can be continued on Lenin Street, forthen visit the extraordinary landmark that Ekaterinburg has (beautiful views of the city, by the way, will open from here). And this place is called Plotinka.

Особенно здорово побывать здесь после захода sun, when along the banks of the main river of the city of Iset turn on the lights. Thanks to the construction of the dam (by the way, this is a unique engineering structure), a pond was formed on the Iset River. The unusual structure fits perfectly into the architecture of the city and became its decoration.

Every evening the fountain streams soar to the sound of the music. And all this against the backdrop of colorful lights, which are an interesting picture.

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

Monuments and temples

Продвигаясь дальше по главной улице, можно see many interesting sights, which Yekaterinburg is rightly proud of. Beautiful buildings and monuments are located on both sides of the avenue. It is a monument to the founders of the city, and the house of Sevastyanov, theaters, museums and simply elegant residential buildings.

On the same street are usually pilgrims andpeople who love cathedral tourism, heading to the Temple on the Blood or Trinity Cathedral. Here also runs the road to Ganina Yama, a place where the remains of the royal family were buried for a long time.

Vysotsky and Pleshivaya Hill

Urban beauty can be seen by visitingobservation deck, which was equipped on the fifty-second floor of the highest building "Vysotsky", stands out from other buildings that adorn Ekaterinburg. Beautiful places not only of the central region, but also of distant suburbs can be viewed from a height of 186 meters.

You can see many beauty of the metropolis, and iflook at the city from the meteorological site, which is located on the left bank of the river between the southern and northern slopes. Previously, it was called Observatory, or Pleshivoy, slide.

Kharitonovsky Park

Walking along the main street, you can thenvisit the beautiful parks that adorn Ekaterinburg. Beautiful places can be found, for example, in Kharitonovsky Park, belonging to the manor Rastorguev-Kharitonov. It is near the train station.

Of interest is the pond here, in the middlewhich is located bulk island and decorating its white rotunda. In these places vacationers love to walk, as well as newlyweds take pictures. In addition, it is here that various music festivals are often held.

Arboretum

Another green corner of the city - the arboretum - alsois one of the places worth visiting when coming to Ekaterinburg. Beautiful places can be found in this park, divided in two, at almost every step.

The first part of the park (located on the street EighthMarch) has existed 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 the pond in which ducks are found. Dendarius is well landscaped and well maintained.

Neighborhood

Visiting Ekaterinburg, beautiful places outside the cityalso can not be ignored. The surroundings of this metropolis are amazing. No wonder with such love they were described in their books by famous writers. So, continuing the theme of parks, you can recall the park “Bazhovskie Places” or the park “Oleni Ruchi”, worthy of the attention of tourists.

Devil's ancient settlement is another unusual placedecorating Ekaterinburg. The beautiful places behind this name are the outcrops. They are located on the top of the mountain. Together they make up a stone wall. These are flat plates of gray color, assembled in an impregnable tower. They are also called stone tents. Sometime in prehistoric times, sacrifices were made to the gods.

This tract is Upper Isetsky granitearray Much here refers to the archaeological monuments of a city like Yekaterinburg. Beautiful places with 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 surroundings, each of which has its own name, for example, the mountain Wolf, Ezhovaya, Pilna and others.

Here still in various mines are foundrich minerals. The decoration of great interest to archaeologists are rocks of the Upper Iset mountains. The most interesting here is the ancient images. These drawings are called pisanitsy and pysankami. Surprisingly, such drawings on the rocks are not destroyed by the effects of nature, although they are under the open sky. No rain, no snow, no wind they are not afraid. Drawings for many thousands of years.

Mitka Lakes

No less picturesque look on the background of mountains and lakes.And some of them are man-made. For example, the Mitkino lakes emerged in their place after old mines were flooded there. The same story and Talkovskogo stone and lakes near the city of Berezovsky.

In general, it is surprising, but it is inYekaterinburg natural beauty is wonderfully combined with technologies of different centuries that do not spoil the landscape. For example, the quarry, which is called the “Old Lens,” was where talc was mined here.

Lake Shartash

Fishing lovers will surely enjoy visiting Lake Shartash. There are a lot of fish. The name of the lake was derived from the color of the rocks surrounding it.

"Shartash" in Turkic means "yellowstones ". Unlike other lakes, the name was formed more than a million years ago. For several centuries gold mines were located here, as well as a quarry to which granite is developed to this day. It is at the top of the Shartash mountains that there are stone rocks for sacrifices Archaeologists have found that people lived here in the Neolithic era.