Ode to Ekaterinburg

Еkaterinburg - link of times.
Domes of churches and neon.
City, as if fantastic dream,
Sanctity stored

The factory dam in Ekaterinburg has been constructed of the Ural larch — a tree which doesn't decay in water, and turns into stone and only becomes stronger. It is one of the oldest constructions of this sort in Russia.

 

Plotinka — the place of meetings and partings. Exactly there is all the most interesting in Ekaterinburg. Here students come, lovers appoint meetings, there come from the REGISTRY OFFICE newlyweds. They are watched by de Genin and Tatishchev — founders of the city who have ordered to build in 1723 a dam on the Iset River. Actually, construction of Ekaterinburg has also begun with it.

Plotinka looks as are usual the bridge. On the one hand — the river, with another — the City pond. It is possible to hire a catamaran in the summer, to swim for a while by the boat, to feed ducks. In the winter — to walk on ice to Church on Blood. Though it is also unsafe.

Skateboarders and scooters gather on other party of Plotinki. They manufacture tricks directly near a monument to founders of the city who in the people were nicknamed Beavis and Battkhed. Nearby — the museums of the fine arts and the industry, architecture and the nature of the Urals.