Where to go in your free time in Yekaterinburg? Interesting places and walks around the city
Yekaterinburg can boast of the most beautiful park areas. For tourists, the most interesting are the green oases in the city center.
Kharitonov Park
A small elegant park with a rotunda on the pond, in which almost tame ducks live. Here it is pleasant to relax in the summer heat, and in winter you can ride from steep slopes, admiring the panorama of the city. The English Park is part of the ensemble of the Rastorguevs - Kharitonovs estate, and is filled with secrets and legends.
Admiring the beautifully built landscapes of the park, Google the book by Vsevolod Mikhailovich Slukin “Secrets of the Ural dungeons”, and you will take a new look at this poetic place.
The top of the park is crowned by the Ascension Church, which is worth visiting not only during the service. In October, the temple holds the Pokrovsky Fair, and in the library of the temple there are concerts of classical music, chamber and very family.
Near Kharitonovsky Park is the Museum of the History of Yekaterinburg. The interactive tour will appeal to both adults and children. The museum hosts special weekend programs, lectures and games. In the museum shop you can buy Ural souvenirs, as well as rare and interesting publications on the history of the city and its districts.
Metenkov House Museum is a unique specialized museum of photography and photo art. The museum regularly participates in landmark projects and actions of contemporary art.
After walking in the park and visiting museums, you can plunge into the world of music.
The Yekaterinburg Philharmonic is known far beyond the Urals for the performances of the symphony orchestra under the direction of Dmitry Liss. Concerts of the Musical ABC program for children begin at 12:00, and listeners of the Musical Academy are waiting at 15:00. Parents are allowed and encouraged to attend!
Door to the door with the Philharmonic is the Educational Theater of the Yekaterinburg Theater Institute. There are very inexpensive tickets (from 100 rubles), and you can see puppet performances, a rap fairy tale, a ballet and classical drama. The beginning of children's performances at 10-30 and 11 hours.
The Musical Comedy Theater is also on the same route along Voznesensky Prospekt. Music comedy is the title of the state academic theater. Each performance here is an event and a shock for the audience. Musicals for children start at 11:30.
Cafe near Paul Bakery at Karl Liebknecht, 23.
Arboretum on March 8
The dendrologic park on the main shopping street of Yekaterinburg grew from the Garden of a young Michurinets. Now it is a beautiful place to walk. Especially good arboretum in summer, when its French flowerbeds decorate patterns of flowers. But even in winter there are quiet alleys where you can feed ducks and squirrels.
In the Arboretum there is a bench of lovers, in the Alley of Memory there are glazed stands in which interesting picturesque and photographic works are exhibited.
In the park there is a chapel of Alexander Nevsky, founded in 1881 in memory of the murdered Emperor Alexander II, once at its entrance hung a marble board with the text of the Manifesto on the liberation of peasants in 1861.
The arboretum is adjacent to the Garden of the Center for Contemporary Art. The Center hosts stunning exhibitions, and a variety of educational interactive programs and master classes are open for children.
Near the presentable residence of the Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Ural district there are unique museums.
This is the Art Museum of Ernst Unknown, where you can learn about the life and work of the famous countryman. The museum is open from 12 o'clock on weekdays and from 11 o'clock on weekends.
The Museum of History and Archaeology of the Urals houses the oldest wooden sculpture on Earth – the Shigir Idol, which is more than 10 thousand years old. The pavilion with an idol is built in such a way that allows you to fully feel the mystical grandeur and mystery of this sculpture.
Museum and exhibition center "House of Poklevsky-Kozell" does not immerse in the secrets of antiquity, but transfers to the atmosphere of Yekaterinburg at the end of the XIX century, allows you to feel the special coziness and poetry of home life of wealthy citizens.
The museum hosts interactive excursions, where you can try on old clothes and reincarnate during a hospitable tea party.
Nearby there is the original theater "Volkhonka", the performances of the theater are intended for an already mature audience, among connoisseurs of theatrical art, this chamber theater enjoys deserved respect.
Greengrove
Undoubted attraction is one of the oldest parks of the city, at one time granted to the women's St. Tikhvin monastery by Emperor Alexander I. In Soviet times, the Yunnates planted blue fir trees, Siberian cedars and larch trees in the park. Schoolchildren and teachers improved the alleys of the park and took care of them.
Today, the Green Grove is the best place for walking and playing sports in the open air, to the singing of forest birds and the curious glances of nimble squirrels.
Near the grove is the Museum of Hygiene, and at a short distance - the House-Museum of Pavel Petrovich Bazhov.
Opposite the Green Grove is a snow-white stone tent of the Yekaterinburg Circus. Colorful performances begin at 13 and 17 hours. Under the dome of the circus perform the best artists from around the world. The circus is known for its annual clown festival.
If you pass Bolshakov Square adjacent to the Green Grove and continue on March 8, you will see an unusual building in the form of a high-tech tower. This is The Nutcracker Theater. "Nutcracker" is famous for its children's ballet school, wonderful performances with the participation of young artists will not leave you indifferent.
Where to eat?
March 8 is the street where the best shops and shopping centers of Yekaterinburg are concentrated. Cafes and restaurants are abundant here. Let’s highlight some in which good reviews receive a children’s menu.
Cafe of conscious eating "We are" (March 8, 46) takes into account the needs of adherents of vegetarianism and healthy eating. "I love and thank" (Kuibysheva, 55a) also offers a choice of dishes for vegetarians. Stolle on March 8, 123. Not very close, but within reach is a healthy food cafe "Planetarium".
Shopping center "Greenwich" offers a large selection of establishments for every taste and wallet.
Text: Anastasia Scherer
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