Plotinka
Ave. Lenina, Ekaterinburg 
Plotinka - a place for meetings and partings. It is here that the most interesting things happen in Yekaterinburg. Here come the students, make appointments in love, come from the registry office newlyweds. They are followed by de Genin and Tatishchev, the founders of the city.
Temple on blood
Holy quarter, 1, Yekaterinburg 
The largest temple in Yekaterinburg stands at the site of the execution of the royal family. This five-domed building with 14 bells and a lower level with a museum complex. According to the architect's plan, through the opening of the iconostasis one can see the place of execution of Nikolai II and his family.
Mountain-skiing centers of Ekaterinburg
Not far from Ekaterinburg there are several good ski resorts. One of them is located near the mountain Volchikha. It is the highest mountain in the vicinity of the city - 526 meters above sea level. The season lasts until mid-March.
The house-museum of PP Bazhov
Ekaterinburg, Chapaeva, d. 11 
Near the house a garden is broken - this is the preserved garden of Bazhov, under the lindens, apple trees and lilacs in this garden a table where the writer often received his guests. The memorial value of Bazhov's house does not lend itself to any evaluation scale. This house was the most famous book of the writer "Malachite Box".
House-museum of FM Reshetnikov
Ekaterinburg, Proletarskaya, 6 
The museum is located in a two-story stone house built in the first third of the 19th century. The exposition presents manuscripts, photographs, editions of the writer's works, sketches from the city life, views of the Urals, St. Petersburg, household items of the 19th century.
House Sevastyanova in Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg, Lenin Ave., 35 
House Sevastyanova - one of the most impressive, bright and memorable buildings in Yekaterinburg. By the festivity of its appearance, this palace even overtakes the old passenger railway station.
Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts
Ekaterinburg, Vojvodina, d. 5 
The basis of the museum collection was the meeting of the Ural Society of Naturalists. Until 1936 this collection was part of the museum of local lore, then it was transferred to the Sverdlovsk Art Gallery.
Museum of the History of Architecture and Industrial Engineering of the Urals
Ekaterinburg, Gorkogo, d. 4a 
The museum is a structural subdivision of the Ural State Architecture and Art Academy. It is located in the building of the former Yekaterinburg ironworks, a monument of industrial architecture.
Museum of the History of Yekaterinburg
Ekaterinburg, K. Liebknecht, 26 
The Museum of History of Yekaterinburg was opened in 1940, as the House Museum of YM Sverdlov. The museum presents the only exposition in the Urals with wax figures of Peter I, Catherine I and Catherine II, the founders of Yekaterinburg, Demidovs industrialists, Emperor Nicholas II and his family members.
Museum of Stone-cutting and Jewelry Art
Ekaterinburg, Prospect Lenina, 37 
The State Museum of the History of Stone-Cutting and Jewelry was created in 1992, thanks to the active support of the public of the city of Yekaterinburg. The exposition of the museum presents outstanding mineralogical monuments.
Museum of Puppets and Children's Book "Wonderland"
Ekaterinburg, Proletarskaya, house 16 
The Museum of Puppets and Children's Books was opened in the Literary Quarter of Yekaterinburg on October 31, 1994. He was housed in a house where from 1880 to 1883 the family of DN Mamin-Sibiryak, who rented a room from the mistress of the house-the wife of mine surveyor of the Berezovsky mine, Kh.I. Cherepanovoy.
Museum "Literary Life of the Urals"
Ekaterinburg, Tolmacheva, d. 41 
At the end of the 19th century, DI Mamin-Sibiryak, a famous Urals writer, lived at this address. The house belonged to his civil wife Alexeyeva M.Ya. Exposition: "Literary life of the Urals of the XIX century", which consists of three sections:.
Museum of Radio. A. S. Popova
Ekaterinburg, R.Lüksemburg, d. 9/11 
In the exposition: the memorial room of the priest GI Levitsky, the relative of AS Popov, the history of radio development in the Urals, AS Popov - the inventor of radio, the history of the development of Russian television, satellite television, the history of the development of the Ural radio industry.
Obelisk "Europe-Asia"
The Urals are proud to be at the junction of two parts of the world. True, the exact location of the border between Europe and Asia has not yet been found. Back in the 18th century, Vasily Tatishchev, one of the founders of Yekaterinburg, suggested that this feature is the backbone of the Ural Mountains.
Sverdlovsk Regional Museum of Local History
Ekaterinburg, Malysheva, 46 
Sverdlovsk Regional Museum of Local Lore is a large association of museums scattered across ten cities of the region, of which four represent their expositions in Yekaterinburg. The museum includes departments of nature, archeology and ethnography, history, exhibitions, architectural and artistic.
Ural Geological Museum
Ekaterinburg, Kuibysheva, 39 
The Ural Geological Museum, located in the city of Yekaterinburg, is the beauty and pride of the whole Urals and a unique pearl among the rest of the country's geological museums. This is now the honorable foreign guests Ekaterinburg citizens are taken to the Temple-on-the-Blood and to the Europe-Asia border.
Photographic Museum "Metenkov House"
Ekaterinburg, K.Libknekhta, 36 
The photographic museum "Metenkov's House" was opened on August 10, 1998. "Having connected an invisible thread" the museum shows a century and a half of the development of photography in Yekaterinburg: the earliest photograph, not counting the daguerreotype, dates from 1863 and the latest to 1999.
Circus in Yekaterinburg
ul. March 8, 43 
Ekaterinburg circus is visible from anywhere in the city. And most importantly, he does not have a typical dome for Russian circuses: it consists of trellised open-work semi-arches. This is only in Brazil. And this is not only external beauty, the height and shape of the dome give the arena a good acoustic properties.
Everything in Yekaterinburg is good, but it's difficult to get in good weather. Rain, snowstorm, slush, mud, gray sky - the usual companions of local residents. They are used to such a variety, and probably most do not pay attention to the vagaries of the weather. Tourists also do not stick. Because in Yekaterinburg - a good European city - there is something to see. Large shopping centers, wide avenues, new high-rise buildings.
Prospect of Lenin divides the city in half. In the center is all life. If you want to meet friends or just lie on the lawn, go to Plotinka. On a city pond it is necessary to go for a drive on a boat. In the parks, the trees are so high that they close almost entirely the high-rise buildings. The thick forest begins almost immediately after Khimmash or Uralmash.
In the winter in Yekaterinburg, you must certainly go to the local ski centers. Very close to the mountain Pilava, a little further away - Wolf and Ezhovaya. Of course, these are not such well-known ski resorts like Dombay, but you can go for a ride here. But in the summer or autumn it is worth to find a couple of days for walks through the forest. Near the city blocks you can find mushrooms and, if you are lucky, meet this moose.