Советы и предупреждения для путешествия Екатеринбург
Tourism
All the touristic options of the city may be divided in the following way:
- Common city-tours. The overview of the city with memorials of the XIX century, Soviet architecture and modern buildings.
- Sacral places tours, related with the last days of the Imperial family - Church on the Blood and Ganina hole
- Soviet monuments in the Constructivism style – Uralmash district
- Mining, stone cutting, gold-mining
- Tours to Europe-Asian frontier
- Mounting tourism started developing in Ural back in Soviet era. There are a lot of ski stations and resorts, fully equipped, with all condition for a great vacation.
The city has several dozens of libraries including the V. G. Belinsky Scientific Library, the largest public library in the Urals.
Yekaterinburg is famous for its theaters among which there are some very popular theater companies: Yekaterinburg Academic Ballet and Opera Company, Sverdlovsk Academic Theater of Musical Comedy (legendary company known in Russia and in ex-soviet republics as Sverdlovskaya muzkomedia), Yekaterinburg Academic Dramatic Theater, Yekaterinburg Theater for Young Spectators, Volkhonka (popular chamber theater), Kolyada Theater (chamber theater founded by Russian playwright, producer and actor Nikolai Kolyada). Yekaterinburg is the center of New Drama - movement of contemporary Russian playwrights: Nikolai Kolyada, Vasily Sigarev, Konstantin Kostenko, Presnyakov brothers, Oleg Bogayev.
Due to its rich history the city has lots of things to see.
The date of birth of Yekaterinburg is considered in 1723, when came into operation a plant Crude steel.
• The main factory building - «Plotinka» on Iset River - keep up to date, and today is the Sites of the city. The preserved building is included in the Museum of the History of Architecture and Industrial Technology Urals - one of the most interesting museums in Russia.
• Church on the Blood - built in 2003 at the site of the execution of Tsar Nicholas II and his family.
• QWERTY Monument, (On the river bank near metro station ploshad' 1905 goda. ). Easily one of Russia's weirdest attractions is the gargantuan keyboard monument in this city. Big white stones rise from the earth, and as you approach, you see engraved upon them, words like "Q" and "SHIFT. "
Yekaterinburg, still called by its Soviet name Sverdlovsk in rail timetables, is an important railway junction on the Trans-Siberian Railway, with lines radiating to all parts of the Urals and the rest of Russia. As the economy grew stronger after the slump of the 1990s, several European airlines started or resumed flying to the city's Koltsovo International Airport (SVX). These include Turkish Airlines, Lufthansa, Malйv, Austrian Airlines, Czech Airlines and Finnair.
Yekaterinburg is also served by the smaller Yekaterinburg Aramil Airport.
You may also rent all types of cars and buses.
Yekaterinburg's public transit network includes the Yekaterinburg Metro which was opened in 1991, and many streetcar (tram), bus, trolleybus, and Marshrutka routes.
Екатеринбу́рг (с 1924 по 1991 — Свердло́вск) — административный центр Свердловской области, четвёртый по численности населения (после Москвы, Санкт-Петербурга и Новосибирска) город в России. Транспортно-логистический узел на Транссибирской магистрали, крупный промышленный центр (оптико-механическая промышленность, приборостроение и тяжёлое машиностроение, металлургия, полиграфическая промышленность, лёгкая и пищевая промышленность, военно-промышленный комплекс).
Екатеринбург — административный, культурный, научно-образовательный центр Уральского региона, наделённый статусом центра Уральского федерального округа; также здесь располагается штаб ОСК «Центр», Президиум Уральского отделения Российской академии наук, и 35 территориальных органов федеральной власти
, из-за чего город ещё называют «столицей Урала»
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