The Urals amaze everyone who comes here with the unbridled beauty of its nature. It has everything: cities that preserve historical monuments, majestic mountains and clear lakes. Ural beauty is also known from the tales of Bazhov, the works of Mamin-Sibiryak and Aksakov. Tourists should definitely visit the largest city in the region - Yekaterinburg.
Beautiful places (photos of them are presented in the article) of this city and its environs will please even the most sophisticated tourist. Moreover, the trip can be devoted to both historical sights and museums. In Yekaterinburg, more than a million people live. This is a region rich in natural resources, which has always attracted a huge number of industrialists and entrepreneurs. Guests of the metropolis are sure to find something interesting for themselves.
Weiner Street
You can start the journey from the central part of the city, where all the most interesting sights that Ekaterinburg has located are located. Beautiful places in the center can be found everywhere. So, one of the most popular and beloved by the townspeople pedestrian streets is Weiner Street. It is very pleasant to walk along it in your free time, it is not in vain that it is called the Ural Arbat. There are many different cafes, as well as shops for those who love shopping.
Fans of selfies will certainly be attracted by interesting bronze sculptures, which are the highlight of this street. So, if you throw a coin on the tray “Chapman” and then rub the bottle of perfume standing here, it will certainly bring good luck and wealth. And so that life rolls smoothly, the townspeople are advised to rub the wheel rim at the monument to the inventor of the bicycle Efim Artamonov.
One cannot help but get hooked on the bronze lovers, who are 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 unique. Beautiful photos of the city certainly depict at least one of them.
Area 1905
Following Weiner Street, you can reach the 1905 Square. She is the main in the city. This place appeared during the primary construction of Yekaterinburg and was then called Trading Square. In the middle of the eighteenth century, the Epiphany Church was erected here, and then the eponymous stone cathedral. A little later Gostiny Dvor appeared here. By the way, the area is paved with paving stones, which has been preserved since the nineteenth century. Then, in connection with the change in the status of the cathedral, the square was called Cathedral.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, during the days of the first Russian revolution, revolutionary events took place here, and that is why the square got 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 to V. I. Lenin. Later trams began to ride on the square and a metro station appeared. Today, all city holidays are held here, the main Christmas tree is decorated and the main ice rink is being built.
Dam
You can continue the walk along Lenin Street, in order to then visit the unusual attraction that Yekaterinburg 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 lights are turned on on the banks of the main river of Iseti. 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 fit perfectly into the architecture of the city and became its decoration.
Every evening, fountain jets take off to the beat of sounding music. And all this against the background of multi-colored lights, which are an interesting drawing.
Walking here you can visit the historic square. In it, the bridge of the newlyweds is the most romantic and picturesque.
Monuments and temples
Moving further along the main street, you can see many interesting sights that Ekaterinburg is rightfully proud of. Beautiful buildings and monuments are located on both sides of the avenue. This is a monument to the founders of the city, and Sevastyanov’s house, theaters, museums and simply elegant residential buildings.
Pilgrims and people who like cathedral tourism, going to the Church on the Blood or Trinity Cathedral, usually go along this street. Here lies the road to
Ganina Yama, the place where the remains of the royal family were buried for a long time.
Vysotsky and the Bald Hill
City beauties can be seen by visiting the observation deck, which was equipped on the fifty-second floor of the tallest building "Vysotsky", which stands out from other buildings decorating Yekaterinburg. Beautiful places not only in the central region, but also in the distant outskirts can be seen from a 186-meter height.
You can see many of the beauties of the metropolis, and if you look at the city from the weather hill, which is located on the left bank of the river between the southern and northern slopes. Previously, it was called the Observatory, or the Bald Hill.
Kharitonovsky park
After strolling along the main street, you can then visit the beautiful parks that adorn Yekaterinburg. Beautiful places can be found, for example, in the Kharitonov park, belonging to the Rastorguev-Kharitonov estate. It is near the train station.
Of interest is the pond, in the middle of which there is a bulk island and a white rotund adorning it. In these places, vacationers are very fond of walking, as well as newlyweds taking pictures. In addition, it is here that various music festivals are often held.
Arboretum
Another green corner of the city - the arboretum - is also one of the places worth visiting when coming to Yekaterinburg. Beautiful places can be found in this park, divided in two, at almost every step.
The first part of the park (located on March 8th Street) 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, take a walk along the shores of a pond where ducks live. The arboretum is well-maintained and well-groomed.
Surroundings
Having visited Yekaterinburg, beautiful places outside the city cannot be ignored either. The surroundings of this metropolis are delightful. No wonder with such love they were described in their books by famous writers. So, continuing the theme of parks, we can recall the park "Bazhovskie places" or the park "Deer Streams", worthy of the attention of tourists.
Devil's hillfort is another unusual place that adorns Yekaterinburg. Beautiful places hiding behind this name are cliffs-outliers. 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. Once in prehistoric times, sacrifices were made to the gods.
This natural boundary constitutes the Upper Iset granite massif. Much here refers to the archaeological sites 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 surroundings , each of which has its own name, for example, Volchikha Mountain, Ezhovaya, Pilnaya and others.
Here, rich minerals are still found in various mines. An adornment of great interest to archaeologists are the rocks of the Upper Iset Mountains. The most interesting here are ancient images. These drawings are called scribbles and pysankas. Surprisingly, such drawings on the rocks are not destroyed by the effects of nature, although they are in the open. Neither rain, nor snow, nor wind are afraid of them. The drawings are already many thousands of years old.
Mitkinsky lakes
Look no less picturesque against the backdrop of mountains and a lake. And some of them are man-made. For example, the Mitkinsky lakes arose in their place after the old mines were flooded there. Such is the story of the Talkovo stone and lakes near the town of Berezovsky.
In general, this is surprising, but it is in Yekaterinburg that natural beauty is surprisingly combined with technologies from different centuries that do not spoil the landscape. For example, a quarry called the “Old Lens” - talc was once mined here.
Lake Shartash
Fishing lovers will definitely enjoy visiting Lake Shartash. A large number of fish are found there. 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 named lake was formed more than a million years ago. For several centuries, gold mines have been located here, as well as a quarry that is still working today, in which granite is developed. It is at the top of the Shartash mountains that stone rocks for sacrifices are located. Archaeologists have discovered that people lived here back in the Neolithic era.