Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg, alternatively romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk (1924–1991), is a city and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Ural Federal District, Russia.
Yekaterinburg, alternatively romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk (1924–1991), is a city and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Ural Federal District, Russia. The city is located on the Iset River between the Volga-Ural region and Siberia, with a population of roughly 1.5 million residents, up to 2.2 million residents in the urban agglomeration. Yekaterinburg is the fourth most populous city in Russia, the largest city in the Ural Federal District, and one of Russia's main cultural and industrial centres. Yekaterinburg has been dubbed the "third capital of Russia", as it is ranked third by the size of its economy, culture, transportation and tourism, behind Moscow and Saint Petersburg.
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts
5, Voevodina str (just south of the Gorodskoy Prud, on the west bank of the river).
- 02Dam on the River Iset
- 03House of the Merchant Pshenichnikova
- 04Building of the HQ of Mining
- 05QWERTY Monument
- 06Sevastjanov House
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Things to do
Cross-country skiing: the trails stretch away for miles. There are some downhill skiing resorts as well. It will take you approximately 25 minutes to get to the nearest of them from the center of the city. Watch football at Yekaterinburg Arena, which hosted matches in the 2018 World Cup.
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Where to eat
Many cafés and restaurants provide the usual mix of Russian, Japanese and Italian food, but the level of international cuisine is not that high.
- 01Si!
They offer respectively Italian, American, and Japanese accessible cooking.
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Getting to Yekaterinburg
- Airports
- Koltsovo (SVX), 15 km · Kurchatov Chelyabinsk (CEK), 179 km · Roshchino (TJM), 288 km
- Chelyabinsk → Yekaterinburg195 km · quickest by road, 4h 5m · ₽770–1,030
- Tyumen → Yekaterinburg299 km · quickest by road, 5h 42m · ₽1,200–1,600
- Perm → Yekaterinburg291 km · quickest by road, 5h 58m · ₽1,320–1,760
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No local-transport research exists yet for Yekaterinburg
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Yekaterinburg. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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