The Urals
Perm-36 (officially known as the Memorial complex of political repressions), located some 125km east of Perm, was a labour camp for dissidents from 1946…
Must-see attractions in The Urals
Yekaterinburg
The massive Byzantine-style Church upon the Blood dominates this site where Tsar Nicholas II, his wife and children were murdered by Bolsheviks on the…
Yekaterinburg
The massive Byzantine-style Church upon the Blood dominates this site where the Romanov family was executed. While many believe the funds that went into…
The Urals
People come from all over to visit this limestone cave with its ancient rock drawings from the Paleolithic era, some dating as far back as 36,400 years.
Yekaterinburg
Take the lift up 52 floors to the viewing platform for one of Russia's best urban panoramas. Children under 15 years must be accompanied by an adult. The…
Museum of Contemporary Art PERMM
The Urals
This museum was opened in 2009 with the aid of gallery dealer Marat Gelman. At that time it was housed in the historic Perm River Station Hall. It moved…
Ufa
Park Vatan is a unique collection of boutique shops and arts-exhibition spaces housed in traditional yurts. Visitors can purchase delicacies such as local…
The Urals
Dramatically set in a lake-filled valley, the town of Zlatoust (285km from Ufa) serves as the gateway to one of the most popular national parks and hiking…
The Urals
The network of caves stretches for more than 5km, although only about 1.5km are accessible. The ancient Finno-Ugric inhabitants of the region believed the…
Yekaterinburg
This vast indoor and open-air collection of tanks and armoured vehicles is located on the northern outskirts of Yekaterinburg in Verkhnyaya Pyshma. It’s…
Museum of Architecture and Design
Yekaterinburg
Situated on Istorichesky skver (Historical Sq), this museum is located on the grounds where the first ironworks was established in Yekaterinburg in 1723…
The Urals
The archaeological collection here encompasses over 2000 antiques, many from the Perm region. The highlight is a skeleton exhibit, where visitors will…
Yekaterinburg
At one of the more contemporary museums in town, most of the focus is on Yekaterinburg through the 18th and 19th centuries. Most exhibits are captioned in…
The Urals
Chelyabinsk’s highlight is strolling down the cobblestone pedestrian-only ul Kirova, where shops, cafes and life-sized bronze statues of local…
Yekaterinburg
The restored late-18th-century Ascension Church is the oldest in Yekaterinburg and rises up moodily alongside parkland that's perfect for a stroll.
Nizhnyaya Sinyachikha Museum-Reserve
The Urals
The village of Nizhnyaya Sinyachikha, about 150km northeast of Yekaterinburg and 12km north of Alapaevsk, is home to an excellent open-air Architecture…
The Urals
This very remote and quietly beautiful part of the Urals is a great place for hiking, climbing the Zyuratkul range, swimming in a lake, going to a banya …
The Urals
After the Romanov family was shot in the cellar of Dom Ipatyeva, their bodies were discarded in the depths of the forests of Ganina Yama, 16km northeast…
Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center
Yekaterinburg
Traffic was stopped the day the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center was opened in 2015. The mammoth site includes a museum, a conference centre, an art…
The Urals
Housed in the grand Cathedral of Christ Transfiguration on the banks of the Kama, the Perm State Art Gallery is renowned for its collection of Permian…
Architectural-Ethnographic Museum
The Urals
This museum is located near Khokhlovka, about 45km north of Perm. Its impressive collection of wooden buildings includes two churches dating from the turn…
Chelyabinsk State Museum of Local History
The Urals
The modern Chelyabinsk State Museum of Local History uses natural light well to create an attractive exhibition space, a space that is home to over 300…
Ufa
Housed in a renovated art-nouveau building, this museum is spread over two floors with thousands of exhibits spanning culture, ethnography, history and…
Ufa
This small but interesting gallery contains a fabulous collection of more than 100 artworks by Ufa native Mikhail Nesterov and 50 paintings by Ukrainian…
The Urals
Located inside the imposing Meshkov House, this regional museum only gets really interesting when you see the small collection of intricate metal castings…
Yekaterinburg
Worthwhile for buffs, this military museum has two halls, one dedicated to the Urals Volunteer Tank Corp. Entry price is for both halls, but you can pay…
Yekaterinburg
Located north of skver Popova, the Literary Quarter features restored wooden houses, some of them now museums about celebrated local writers such as…
Yekaterinburg
The prettiest and most lively part of Yekaterinburg in summer is the landscaped parkland alongside the City Pond (Gorodskoy prud), where pr Lenina crosses…
Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts
Yekaterinburg
The star exhibit of the Museum of Fine Arts is its elaborate Kasli Iron Pavilion, which won prizes in the 1900 Paris Expo. The museum has a good…
Yekaterinburg
Excellent icons from the 17th to the 20th centuries, from the local Nevyansk school.
Museum of History, Science and Technology of the Sverdlovsk Railway
Yekaterinburg
Railway buffs will enjoy the good collection here, housed in and around the old train station, dating from 1881. Exhibits highlight the history of the…
Nevyansk History and Architecture Museum
The Urals
The Nevyansk Leaning Tower is an impressive structure flanked by an equally impressive Saviour-Transfiguration Cathedral. The worthwhile excursions (in…
Chapel of the Revered Martyr Grand Princess Yelizaveta Fyodorovna
Yekaterinburg
Located next to the Church upon the Blood (which was built to commemorate the site where the Romanov family were executed), the wooden Chapel of the…
Literary-Memorial House-Museum Reshetnikov
Yekaterinburg
Situated squarely in the literary quarter of Yekaterinburg, this museum re-creates some aspects of life in Reshetnikov's time, with a big focus on postal…
Metenkov House-Museum of Photography
Yekaterinburg
All the exhibitions are temporary, but you’ll always find a room dedicated to Metenkov and his work here. Other exhibition spaces usually feature works…
Ufa
The focus of appealing ul Lenina is the 19th-century Trading Arcade, set back from the street. Behind the renovated facade is a luxuriously marble-lined…
Yekaterinburg
Situated across the road from the site where the Romanov family was executed, this mansion dates from the late 18th and early 19th centuries and was one…
The Urals
The museum is spread across two locations and contains a small and moderately interesting collection of European and Russian paintings and earthenware…
The Urals
Founded in 1663 on the banks of the meandering river, Kungur was a copper-smelting centre during the 17th and 18th centuries, which is a key focus of the…
Monument to the Founders of Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg
The Monument to the Founders of Yekaterinburg standing on one side of the square depicts founders Vasily Tatishchev and George Wilhelm de Gennin.
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