Yekaterinburg for romantics. Part one
Unhurried romantic walks are not associated with the image ekaterinburg Business and industrial cities. The first words that can describe the city: rhythm, speed, dynamics. Severe weather, sudden changes are about us.
How to organize a meeting with a loved one in the capital of the Sverdlovsk region? Yes, just as fun and decisive, in the rhythm of incendiary dances and vivid impressions.
View from above
Due to the location in the valley of the Iset River, surrounded by the foothills of the Ural Range, the city opens with beautiful panoramas both from the water space and from the height of the hills, called “hills”.
Yekaterinburg was once called the most compact city with a million inhabitants. This concentration, conciseness, brevity of spatial forms is very expressive and forever falls into the soul, not without reason tourists like to return to Yekaterinburg.
If you are just discovering a city for yourself or your companion, be sure to visit the best panoramic points.
This is the observation deck of the Vysotsky business center. Entrance ticket costs 350 rubles, discounted tickets - 250 and 150 upon presentation of documents. For visitors to the site free entrance to the Museum of Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky. The exposition has unique exhibits, which were personally transferred to the museum by Marina Vladi, touched by her devotion to the memory of the great bard.
You want something unusual? Rise above the thick of business and trade life, look at the historical heart of Yekaterinburg from the height of the bell tower of the Great Chrysostom temple (it has a tour service).
You can get acquainted with its history, climb the bell tower, where the largest bell of Yekaterinburg weighs 16 tons, and photograph the city from a height of more than 60 meters. Telephone for the tour: +7 (909) 004-48-26.
In the summer days, treat yourself to a beautiful view from the open cafe "Cosmos", soaring above the promenade. It is worth going up to the cafe before visiting the concert hall, cinema or museums and open areas of the Literary Quarter.
A great place to walk is Meteogorka. Once this area was in the area of merchant estates. Since 1836, the high hill has served as a platform for observing the weather, at one time it was called the Observatory Hill. Vasily Zhukovsky, who accompanied the future Emperor Alexander II, visited here, in his travel diary he left wonderful sketches of Yekaterinburg in the first half of the XIX century.
Now at the foot of the slide is a cozy park. Summer evenings on Meteogorsk gather lovers of rest with a hookah.
Red line
In the historical center of Yekaterinburg, a tourist route was laid, marked on the bridge with a wide red stripe. The line stretches for six and a half kilometers, in one day it can be passed only with a sightseeing walk, if you do not visit all the interesting places on the route. On the ekbredline website there is detailed information about all objects, and an audio guide in Russian and English.
Among the museums that are on the red line, the Museum of the History of Stone Cutting and Jewelry is especially attractive. Do you want to fully feel yourself in the homeland of Bazhov heroes, feel the shine and attraction of gold, understand the varieties of ornamental gemstones? This way!
Avant-garde, modern, naive
Want to impress as a sophisticated connoisseur of contemporary art and avant-garde? Yekaterinburg is your city! Among connoisseurs, it is known as the largest collection of constructivist architecture, to feel the peculiar harmony of futurism and functionalism, one must be an “advanced user” of urban planning.
Yekaterinburg is famous not only for the avant-garde of building forms of the beginning of the last century. Ural art is famous for the names of artists, each of which is a block, an era, a style.
The famous monument “Citizens” in the square adjacent to Lenin Avenue depicts our Ural geniuses of painting. Three friends - Vitaly Volovich, Misha Brusilovsky and German Metelev lead a lively conversation. To see the canvases of the heroes of this sculptural composition, you need to visit the museums of Yekaterinburg, famous for the collections of modern art.
Among the first is the Sinara Art Gallery, a private collection featuring over 1,500 paintings, graphics, sculptures and art objects by Ural artists.
The State Center for Contemporary Art, located in the transformed Zemstvo school at Dobrolyubov, 19a, offers not only unique expositions, but also interactive lectures and master classes.
The new gallery "Main Avenue" is opened in the building of the former refinery. It is a presentable, smart fashionable and comfortable arts center, proudly and deservedly called international. Do you want to give the impression of a serious expert? Spend the evening with your half in the halls of "Main Prospect", by the way, there is a cozy bar.
“Art Museum of Ernst Neizvestny” opens the facets of the work of the great countryman, and also holds film screenings with discussions, intellectual games, for children (and not only!) the museum has a unique “Game Guide”, which allows you to make a virtual journey through the mythological worlds of Egypt and Greece.
The Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts is waiting for its visitors in the very center of the city, on Plotinka. It is simply impossible to visit Yekaterinburg and not see the famous Kaslin cast-iron pavilion! If you are already familiar with classical art, welcome to the EMI branch – the Museum of Naive Art at 18 Rosa Luxemburg.
In the ground floor of the building of the Federal University (opposite the Opera House) there is the Museum of B.U.Kashkin - photographer, artist, poet, publisher and punk rock complication Evgeny Malakhin. Old man B.U.Kashkin is a brand of the city of the post-perestroika era, a great ascetic of naive art and transformation of the urban environment and citizens. Without his good moralistic pictures, the image of Yekaterinburg will be incomplete. The museum is open on Tuesdays and Saturdays in the afternoon. Entrance is free, but you need a passport to enter the school building.
Text: Anastasia Scherer
Photo: Yekaterinburg.rf
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