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THE CITY UP CLOSE

Yekaterinburg.

Discover the top attractions and places to visit in Yekaterinburg. Explore walking routes and listen to a self-guided audio tour with Tytory.

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Yekaterinburg
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Ganina YamaСергей Наруков · CC BY 3.0 · Photo

History

Ganina Yama

Ganina Yama lies outside a normal walk through central Yekaterinburg and requires a separate journey. It is a place of remembrance for Nicholas the Second's family and the people killed with them in 1918, rather than an ordinary architectural sightseeing stop.

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Literary QuarterМазур Владимир · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Photo

Culture

Literary Quarter

The Literary Quarter changes the pace of a walk. Instead of one large monument, its character comes from smaller houses, greenery, paths and the spaces between buildings. This scale presents Yekaterinburg as a setting for private life, reading and writing as well as industry.

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Vysotsky SkyscraperVyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Photo

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Vysotsky Skyscraper

The Vysotsky Tower lets you read Yekaterinburg vertically. At street level there are individual houses and intersections; from above they become part of a larger urban pattern. First, though, take a moment to view the tower from the ground, where the contrast between human scale and the building's height is strongest.

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Yeltsin CenterВладислав Фальшивомонетчик · CC BY 3.0 · Photo

Culture

Yeltsin Center

The Yeltsin Center explores a past that many visitors remember personally. Its story concerns the upheavals of the late twentieth century: the collapse of the Soviet Union, the creation of a new Russian state and the difficult experience of the 1990s.

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