Yekaterinburg walking route: City Center to 1905 Square
The route around Yekaterinburg covers the central sights of the city: the historical core with the administration and a shopping center, the square of 1905 with a monument to Lenin and the Iset River, where the first dam of the city was built. The length of the route of allows you to assess the scale of the fourth largest city in Russia.
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- Places
- Start
- Yekaterinburg City Center
- End
- 1905 Square
- Stops
- 2
- Video author
- travmap
- Updated
Stops on this route
- Yekaterinburg City Center
- 1905 Square — City center with administration building, Passazh shopping center, and Lenin monument.
Useful for your trip
- Transport
- Yekaterinburg is 1800 km from Moscow. Nearest major cities: Chelyabinsk (220 km), Kurgan (380 km), Ufa
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- The city has a metro with one line and nine stations - the third in Russia after Moscow and St. Petersburg
- Timing
- Yekaterinburg celebrates its 300th anniversary in 2023. The city was founded in 1723
- Tip
- The city center is located on 1905 Square with a monument to Lenin. On the central square, instead of asphalt, there are paving stones
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- The Church on the Blood was built on the site of the execution of Emperor Nicholas II and his family on the night of July 16-17, 1918
- Avoid
- The main river of the city of Iset is unsuitable for swimming and is classified as extremely dirty
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- According to the environmental rating of 200 cities in Russia for 2021, Yekaterinburg ranks only 117th. The city has one of the largest car fleets and serious problems with air pollution
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- The city annually hosts the international exhibition Innoprom, the main industrial export trading platform in Russia
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- Yekaterinburg is included in the list of city 600 - 600 largest cities in the world, producing 60% of global GDP
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- The city attracts about 2 million tourists a year. The tourist flow consists of business tourism and historical tourism
Video on this route
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