A city without a city

The ball is from the dot.

The circle is from a point

The line is from a point,

I'm from Sverdlovsk, period!

(from poems by B.U.Kashkin).

A city that doesn't...

There are unique places in our city where once there were estates of merchants, artisans, they housed workshops.

You can still have time to see the old paving stones, which miraculously survived almost in the city center.

Today, they are supported on all sides by huge skyscrapers, projects of new skyscrapers are gradually destroying these buildings.

During the tour, we recall the 80-90s of the last century, when the country, city, people changed.

For Sverdlovsk-Yekaterinburg, it was the time of the heyday of the provincial underground, alternative art.

During the tour you can see those places that still “remember” the legendary eccentrics – poets, artists, musicians. They all started their creative journey.

in Sverdlovsk, and died in Yekaterinburg. Let's see the house of the artist Oleg Elovoy, an old oak tree. We will walk along the path of old man B.U. Kashkin, who was 10 years ahead of the coming

In Yekaterinburg graffiti, we will see the courtyards where the paintings and cheerful drawings of E. Malakhin are preserved.

Once lived among us unique people "of that rare breed of eccentrics and originals, the existence of which adorns the city, tears it out of dullness and sameness ..." - said V. Volovich, Honored Artist of Russia about one of them, about V. Makhotin - the founder and curator of the museum-tower on Plotinka.

Let’s look at the buildings where in the late 80s the legendary exhibitions of painting took place. The organizer and soul of these exhibitions was V. Makhotin, who already during his lifetime became a legend, a kind of artifact of Yekaterinburg.

The tour will end in the museum of E.M. Malakhin.

The excursion route is designed for the caring residents of Yekaterinburg and for guests who want to know the capital of the Urals from an unusual side, to feel the "soul" of the city.

It is possible to walk or by bus.