Location: Yekaterinburg
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Yekaterinburg is the thinking tourist's city, jam-packed with libraries, theaters and museums, plus seemingly out of place monuments that pay homage to entities like Michael Jackson and a keyboard. The beautiful Yekaterinburg Circus building is an intricate lace dome that arches over seating for 2600 spectators.
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1. Park of History and Ethnography The Land of Parents
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5.0 based on 6 reviews
The program of the Park, connected with the ancient history of the Urals. Two of the biggest in the Middle Urals boulder dolmen (5000 years), a medieval stone building, traces of mining granite (300 – 100 years), traces of charcoal-burner camp (300-200 years) – it all fit in a small area of the Park.
2. D. Mamin-Sibiryak's Literary and Memorial House Museum
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4.5 based on 11 reviews
3. Ural Literary Life Of The XIXth Century Museum
4. Yekaterinburg History Museum
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4.5 based on 97 reviews
Ekaterinburg History Museum pays special attention to urban culture and everyday life of the city in the XVIII-XXI centuries. Private cases and the most ordinary objects like a smoking pipe, a fan, a photographic frame or a button of an old dress give the exhibitions a non-heroic, domestic dimension. However, they reveal history of the city, capturing the spirit and sense of the past epochs. A unique set of exhibits was supported by multimedia installation, interactive panels and spectacular audio-visual objects depicting the history of Ekaterinburg in the XVIII-XXI centuries as well as prehistory of the place (archaeology).
5. Ural State Technical University History Museum
6. Museum of History of Tram and Trolleybus Management
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4.5 based on 11 reviews
7. Museum of History of Science and Equipment of The Sverdlovsk Railroad
8. F.M. Reshetnikov's Literary and Memorial House Museum
9. Historical Park Rossiya - Moya Istoriya
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4.5 based on 23 reviews
The uniqueness of the Historical Park “Russia—My History” is that the history of the Fatherland is given here panoramically, with the help of modern technology—the exposition includes 900 pieces of multimedia technology, 11 cinemas, 20 interactive 3-D media reconstructions of historical events, multimedia maps, interactive panoramas and scenery, and 270 meters of of a “living timeline” of history.
10. President Center of Boris Eltsin
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4.5 based on 987 reviews
Reviewed By saronic - Zurich, Switzerland
The Yeltsin Center is definitely one of the most important attractions in Yekaterinburg. After a coffee and a 'Bird Cherry Cake' at the Café 1991 there I went to see the 'Boris Yeltsin Presidential Museum', although there is much more in this attractive modern building: art gallery, conference hall, cinema, library, a bookstore, a scientific amusement park for children. The Center opened in 2015 and was built by the architectural bureau of Boris Bernasconi in Moscow. This interested me, since the family name of this architect hails from the Ticino, the Italian speaking part of Switzerland. Apparently an ancestor of his, also an architect, had come from Lugano to work on the palaces of St.Petersburg in the times of tsar Peter the Great. He stayed there and several of his by now Russian descendants then chose to stay in the same profession. At the first floor, where one buys a ticket for 70 RUB, which is also valid for the Art Gallery, one can see Yeltsin's Presidential Limousine. On this level are also the Café 1991, the Museum Shop and the 'Labyrinth', a hall with an overview of Russia's history in the 20th century and the story of Yeltsin's family. Going up one floor one comes to the 'Presidential Circle' with a bronze statue of Yeltsin seated on a bench. A beloved photo with visitors taking place next to him. The museum is all around it with seven rooms like slices of a round cake. Each room presents one of 7 days that changed Russia, all involving Boris Yeltsin. Captions are exclusively in Russian, but there is each time a synopsis in English. Reading those and looking at all the photos will take at least one hour. On videos Boris Yeltsin's wife and daughter come to word. Besides all the politics of global importance a lot of personal information is given as well, for example the closeness to his mother or his heart surgery. All in all Boris Yeltsin gets quite glorified, but not in an exaggerated way. For me the visit here was very worthwhile. That Yekaterinburg was chosen as the site for a center dedicated to the first democratically elected leader of Russia has to do with the fact, that Boris Yeltsin, born in a village 200km further east, started his political career in this city before being called to Moscow in 1985 by Michail Gorbachev.
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