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What to do and see in Yekaterinburg, Urals District: The Best Things to do
Yekaterinburg is the thinking tourist's city, jam-packed with libraries, theaters and museums, plus seemingly out of place monuments that pay homage to entities like Michael Jackson and a keyboard. The beautiful Yekaterinburg Circus building is an intricate lace dome that arches over seating for 2600 spectators.
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1. Yekaterinburg War Memorial
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4.5 based on 276 reviews
This monument honors soldiers who died in Russia's Afghan War.
Reviewed By olegl28
This memorial is very significant place in Ekaterinburg, specially for people who was born in 60th last century. So many young men was killed in Afghanistan.
2. Church on the Blood
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4.5 based on 1,134 reviews
Reviewed By Jenny_Warwick_Qld - Warwick, Australia
If you have a passion for Russian history & the Romanov family, cannot recommend a visit to Church on the Blood. Spectacular interior, beautiful paint work filled with gold religious ornaments, fascinating detail. A brief visit is all that is needed to take in the splendour and the story of this Church. Visited via a private Romanov Family tour November 2018.
3. Yekaterinburg State Academical Opera and Ballet Theatre
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4.5 based on 263 reviews
Reviewed By olegl28
This theatre was open 1912. We always call this theatre - Bolshoy theatre in miniature. Nice opera and beautiful ballet. Best high professional dancers and opera singers. Enjoy every visit this theatre. I love it since 1981
4. Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts
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4.5 based on 206 reviews
Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts is one of the largest art museums in the Ural region. The museum of fine arts has 2 buildings. They are located in the historical part of Yekaterinburg. The museum is famous for the unique collection of Kasli cast-iron moulding and ,of course, the Kasli cast iron pavilion. The collection includes works of Russian and European artists of XVIII-XX centuries. The museum has a collection of icons, including rare examples of the Orthodox icons of the XVI century.
Reviewed By olegl28
This beautiful museum in Ekaterinburg Art Gallery where you can see metal pavilion Kaslinsky which one received Gold medal on Paris exhibition 1900. Very unique. Also you can enjoy beautiful paintings from different artists. Recommend to visit in Ekaterinburg
5. Ganina Yama Monastery
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4.5 based on 777 reviews
Reviewed By olegl28
This is very significant monastery in Russian history. This k I land accept remains last Russian King, his wife and children. It is very important place for Russian people.
6. Visotsky Business Center Lookout
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4.5 based on 1,640 reviews
Reviewed By GT-martin - Terneuzen, The Netherlands
Panaroma where you can see every single point you have been to. Try to arrange your trip for sunset to get the best value. Ticket cost 350 Rub
7. Sevastyanov's House
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4.5 based on 249 reviews
Reviewed By Yelena354 - Brooklyn, United States
I remember this building since I was a child. It always was the most attractive and beautiful building in the city!
8. V. Vysotskiy Museum
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4.5 based on 228 reviews
9. Dendropark
10. President Center of Boris Eltsin
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4.5 based on 987 reviews
Reviewed By saronic - Zurich, Switzerland
The Yeltsin Center is definitely one of the most important attractions in Yekaterinburg. After a coffee and a 'Bird Cherry Cake' at the Café 1991 there I went to see the 'Boris Yeltsin Presidential Museum', although there is much more in this attractive modern building: art gallery, conference hall, cinema, library, a bookstore, a scientific amusement park for children. The Center opened in 2015 and was built by the architectural bureau of Boris Bernasconi in Moscow. This interested me, since the family name of this architect hails from the Ticino, the Italian speaking part of Switzerland. Apparently an ancestor of his, also an architect, had come from Lugano to work on the palaces of St.Petersburg in the times of tsar Peter the Great. He stayed there and several of his by now Russian descendants then chose to stay in the same profession. At the first floor, where one buys a ticket for 70 RUB, which is also valid for the Art Gallery, one can see Yeltsin's Presidential Limousine. On this level are also the Café 1991, the Museum Shop and the 'Labyrinth', a hall with an overview of Russia's history in the 20th century and the story of Yeltsin's family. Going up one floor one comes to the 'Presidential Circle' with a bronze statue of Yeltsin seated on a bench. A beloved photo with visitors taking place next to him. The museum is all around it with seven rooms like slices of a round cake. Each room presents one of 7 days that changed Russia, all involving Boris Yeltsin. Captions are exclusively in Russian, but there is each time a synopsis in English. Reading those and looking at all the photos will take at least one hour. On videos Boris Yeltsin's wife and daughter come to word. Besides all the politics of global importance a lot of personal information is given as well, for example the closeness to his mother or his heart surgery. All in all Boris Yeltsin gets quite glorified, but not in an exaggerated way. For me the visit here was very worthwhile. That Yekaterinburg was chosen as the site for a center dedicated to the first democratically elected leader of Russia has to do with the fact, that Boris Yeltsin, born in a village 200km further east, started his political career in this city before being called to Moscow in 1985 by Michail Gorbachev.
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