Acquaintance with Yekaterinburg: Kirov district
Kirov district is one of eight inner-city districts ekaterinburgIt got its name in memory of the Soviet revolutionary and politician Sergei Kirov.
Statistics: the district was founded in 1943, its area is 45 km2, population: 220 749 people (data 2021).
Kirov district is unique. Here you can comfortably live and relax, work and study!
Labor and days
The largest enterprises of the Kirov district are JSC Ural Electromechanical Plant, JSC Ural Production Enterprise Vector.
A date with nature
Yekaterinburg residents have the opportunity to walk in the forest all year round without leaving the city.
Shartash Forest Park can be reached by trams No. 8, 15, 13, 23, 32 and 5 or buses No. 25, 61, 077, - public transport stop "Stone Tents".
In winter, adults and children ski and sleigh in Shartash, and in summer they swim in the lake, collect mushrooms and delicious blueberries. Here the squirrels run to meet the guests and are happy to treat, and the birds are not afraid to sit on the open palm.
Collective rose garden and unique species of plants - at the intersection of Pervomaiskaya and Mira streets there is arboretum - a popular resting place for citizens and an example of successful landscape construction and park design.
“Learning, Learning and Learning”
In the Kirov district, talented teachers teach children, and schools occupy honorable places in the all-Russian rankings of authoritative educational institutions: Specialized educational and scientific center of UrFU, Gymnasium No. 35, Lyceum No. 130, Lyceum No. 88.
“From session to session, students have fun”
In the Kirov district there are the strongest universities of Yekaterinburg and Russia: UrFU, UrSUAHU, UrSUU, as well as the Ural GAU, Humanitarian University (GU).
In the area of streets Malyshev - Mira - Lenin Avenue - Gagarin is always crowded and cheerful. Students “gnaw the granite of science” in colleges and universities, tasting the cuisines of the peoples of the world in local cafes, visiting friends in student hostels.
New Year lampshades by Timothy Radi
According to a number of art critics and journalists, Yekaterinburg is considered the “Russian capital of street art”, the city hosts street art festivals “Stenograffia” and “Cart Blanche” (formerly “Long Stories of Yekaterinburg”).
Evgeny Malakhin began to revive the streets of the city - the artist and creator of the society "Picture", the founder of Sverdlovsk street art, "people's janitor of Russia" (Old Man Bukashkin).
Timofey Radya is a famous contemporary artist, his works adorn the center of Yekaterinburg. For example, lampshades in December 2022 for the eleventh time “warmed” with their warm light the square on Lenin Avenue.
"Bread and circuses!"
How to spend the evening? Where to ask a beautiful lady on a date? Where to celebrate your birthday?
In the Kirov district there is entertainment for every taste and purse: theaters, cinemas, museums and exhibition halls.
If you plan a cultural trip along Lenin Street, you can visit performances at the Musical Comedy Theatre and the Opera and Ballet Theatre, look at the original Kolyada Theatre.
On Chebyshev Street, the Museum of Soviet Life “Made in the USSR” was opened with a “mechanism for launching happy memories.”
When children ask for performances for themselves or just want to turn off the main street of the city, along the way there will be the Theater of the Young Spectator on Karl Liebknecht Street and the Puppet Theater on Mamin-Sibiryak Street.
At the corner of Karl Liebknecht and Pervomayskaya streets in the building of 1915 is the Sverdlovsk State Philharmonic. On the contrary, there is a unique Literary Quarter, it consists of five museums (dedicated to the life and work of the Ural writers D. N. Mamin-Sibiryak, F. M. Reshetnikov, the literary life of the Urals of the XIX and XX centuries and a children's book), as well as the Chamber Theater.
The remote corners of the district also offer cultural entertainment - welcome to the CSD Theatre, an experimental platform for young Ural directors.
A wonderful continuation and completion of the evening can be an observation deck in the Vysotsky Business Center, dinner in a panoramic restaurant overlooking the city and swimming in a spectacular pool on the roof of the skyscraper.
Text and photo: personalguide, Polina M,
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