Historical Square in Yekaterinburg: History and Modernity

This place is well known and loved by many residents of the Ural capital. From here, from the point where the Historical Square is located, Ekaterinburg began. But he was founded completely not as a city in the usual sense. In the spring of 1723, according to the decree of Peter the Great , a plant for the smelting of iron and iron was laid in this place. The strong Russian state needed metal for guns and much more.

What does Historical Park look like today?

The indigenous inhabitants of the Ural capital often call this place slightly familiar - "Plotinka". The name comes from a dam that blocks the Iset River and forms the City Pond. This is the oldest hydraulic engineering structure erected in the same distant 1723, from which the age of Yekaterinburg is calculated. Its purpose was quite utilitarian, it provided a metallurgical plant with water. But this is in the past, cast iron at this place has long been melted, and the City Pond is decorated with a historic square. Citizens like to walk here and spend their free time. The pedestrian zone became the place by the will of architects and city authorities. Over bringing this place into a civilized form it was necessary to work hard. The historical square, the total area of which exceeds 8 hectares, stretches along both banks of the Iset. The territory is planned symmetrically to the museum and memorial zones. On the right bank, in the area of the retaining wall, there is a kind of "Garden of stones". This is a permanent exhibition of the Ural minerals. The exposition under the open sky allows to get acquainted with the natural and geological riches of the Urals. Monolithic blocks of granite, dolomite and marble are brought to the historical square from different places of the Ural region. And on the left bank of the Iset is a museum zone. It is based on the buildings and structures that remained from the old Yekaterinburg. Here is a technique that worked at the Ural enterprises in the nineteenth century. Interesting was the fate of the surviving buildings of an old metallurgical plant - the same one from which Yekaterinburg began. Now here are located the Museum of Fine Arts and Part. Exposition of the Museum of Local Lore. And from the old water tower turned out to be quite an interesting museum of forging skill, the level of which local craftsmen were always famous for. Also there are monuments to two famous Ural writers - PP Bazhov and DN Mamin-Sibiryak. Among other things, the Historic Square is a traditional venue for citywide events, folk festivals and celebrations. They pass on both banks of the Iset.

How to find Historical Square. Ekaterinburg, city map

If you were in the capital of the Urals for the first time, then finding this place will not be very difficult. Just look at the map of the city. In this place, the City Pond abruptly breaks off by a straight line. This is the same "Plotinka", with the erection of which the history of Yekaterinburg began . From the railway station, you can walk here in a leisurely pace for half an hour.