Yekaterinburg Travel Forum

Hi, I´m planning a trip to Yekaterinburg later this year. Does anyone know any good web pages to study, preferably in english, with a map of the city, pictures and stuff like that? The ones I have found are all in russian.
What is the best/nicest way to go there from my home in Stockholm, Sweden? By flight, or should I perhaps fly to Moscow and then take the Transsibirean railroad from there. Any suggestions.
Cheers

Hi a good website is www.ekaterinburg.tv
and www.lonelyplanet.com has good links!
Hope you have a good time there, it is a nice town, sorry city and you can get out too and there is a lot to see. have a look at my page

Depending on the time you spend there, I would take the train but check timetables as the one I took to Novosibirsk stopped at Yekaterinburg at about 11pm which is ok when you get picked up, I suppose.

I use this website for translating English/Russian. Usually use it for text but I have used it for websites as well and it works OK.

As for Ekaterinburg - I know nothing about the place

sorry forgot
you can fly from Moscow to Ekaterinburg. I know there is a straight flight from franfurt to Ekaterinburg, but do not know if there is flight from your country, But the train is great, take the ural express, takes 27 hours, and the train is very clean, and lot of toilet paper available

Look here:

http://www.russia-ic.com/eng/Travel/city.html?id=3054

Not too much but better than nothing.

If you've never been on a long distance train journey then you should take the train from Moscow. It's only a short distance, 2000 kilometers to the east so it takes about a day and a half or so. Long enough to get the experience of the train but not so long that you get bored or exhausted.

You really should learn to read the Cyrillic alphabet so that you can read street signs etc. Then you can use the very detailed Russian language maps. I've only seen a couple of low resolution tourist maps of the central part of the city in English.

There is a piazza running between Malysheva and Prospect Lenina. One street to the west of this, I think it is Khokhryakova or something like that, there is an authentic Irish pub called the Old Dublin pub (Stariy Dublin in Russian). There is a tour that you can take which goes west of the city to the border of Europe and Asia and also stops at a cemetery where you can see the ornate tombstones of the young mafia guys who were killed in the 90's.

You could try Wikipedia - the virtual encyclopedia - search this keyword on Google They're pretty good! And I believe it's also a Swedish version if you need one!
good Luck!
Walter, Transylvania

hello, there!
It's Walter from Transylvania.
I'll start my journey to Russia in about ten days.. Where are you now? and where will you be next month? Maybe we could meet. So I'll have the chance to thank you for the informations about the road from Chita to Habarovsk and perhaps to prove I can't drink more than half a bottle of straight vodka :))
Best regards, Walter

good luck with your travels, hope you will tell us all about and send photos