Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Yekaterinburg, Russia

The Dyatlov Pass incident is an event in which nine Soviet hikers died in the northern Ural Mountains between February 1 and 2, 1959, under uncertain circumstances. The experienced trekking group from the Ural Polytechnical Institute, led by Igor Dyatlov, had established a camp on the eastern slopes of Kholat Syakhl in the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union. Overnight, something caused them to cut their way out of their tent and flee the campsite while inadequately dressed for the heavy snowfall and subzero temperatures.

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The T-64 is a Soviet tank manufactured in Kharkiv, and designed by Alexander Morozov. The tank was introduced in the early 1960s. It was a more advanced counterpart to the T-62: the T-64 served in tank divisions, while the T-62 supported infantry in motorized rifle divisions. It introduced a number of advanced features including composite armour, a compact engine and transmission, and a smoothbore 125-mm gun equipped with an autoloader to allow the crew to be reduced to three so the tank could be smaller and lighter. In spite of being armed and armoured like a heavy tank, the T-64 weighed only 38 tonnes.

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The BM-21 "Grad" is a self-propelled 122 mm multiple rocket launcher designed in the Soviet Union. The system and the M-21OF rocket were first developed in the early 1960s, and saw their first combat use in March 1969 during the Sino-Soviet border conflict. BM stands for boyevaya mashina, and the nickname grad means "hail". The complete system with the BM-21 launch vehicle and the M-21OF rocket is designated as the M-21 field-rocket system. The complete system is more commonly known as a Grad multiple rocket launcher system.

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The Memorial of Mr. Zhýkov is an equestrian statue of the Soviet commander Georgy Zhukov in Yekaterinburg, Russia. It was installed on May 8, 1995 in front of the headquarters of the Central Military District. In 2021, another sculptural monument to Zhukov was unveiled next to it, depicting the commander sitting in a car.

Wikipedia: Памятник Г. К. Жукову (Екатеринбург) (RU)

The T-34 is a Soviet medium tank from World War II. When introduced, its 76.2 mm (3 in) tank gun was more powerful than its contemporaries, and its 60-degree sloped armour provided good protection against anti-tank weapons. The T-34 had a profound effect on the conflict on the Eastern Front, and had a long-lasting impact on tank design. The tank was praised by multiple German generals when encountered during Operation Barbarossa, although its armour and armament were surpassed later in the war. Its main strength was its cost and production time, meaning that German panzer forces would often fight against Soviet tank forces several times their size. The T-34 is also a critical part of the mechanized divisions that form the backbone of the Deep Battle Strategy.

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The S-75 is a Soviet-designed, high-altitude air defence system. It is built around a surface-to-air missile with command guidance. Following its first deployment in 1957 it became one of the most widely deployed air defence systems in history. It scored the first destruction of an enemy aircraft by a surface-to-air missile, with the shooting down of a Taiwanese Martin RB-57D Canberra over China on 7 October 1959 that was hit by a salvo of three V-750 (1D) missiles at an altitude of 20 km (65,600 ft). This success was credited to Chinese fighter aircraft at the time to keep the S-75 program secret.

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The Katyusha is a type of rocket artillery first built and fielded by the Soviet Union in World War II. Multiple rocket launchers such as these deliver explosives to a target area more intensively than conventional artillery, but with lower accuracy and requiring a longer time to reload. They are fragile compared to artillery guns, but are cheap, easy to produce, and usable on almost any chassis. The Katyushas of World War II, the first self-propelled artillery mass-produced by the Soviet Union, were usually mounted on ordinary trucks. This mobility gave the Katyusha, and other self-propelled artillery, another advantage: being able to deliver a large blow all at once, and then move before being located and attacked with counter-battery fire.

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The IS-3 is a Soviet heavy tank developed in late 1944. Its semi-hemispherical cast turret became the hallmark of post-war Soviet tanks. Its pike nose design would also be mirrored by other tanks of the IS tank family such as the IS-7 and T-10. Too late to see combat in World War II, the IS-3 participated in the Berlin Victory Parade of 1945, in the border conflict during the Sino-Soviet split, the Soviet invasion of Hungary, the Prague Spring, on both sides during the Six-Day War, and in very limited capacity during the Russo-Ukraine War.

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The T-54 was a Soviet medium tank. It was adopted by the Soviet Army of the Armed Forces of the USSR in 1946, it has been mass-produced since 1947, constantly modernized. Since 1958, its modification called T-55 has been produced, adapted to combat operations in the conditions of the use of nuclear weapons. In 1961-1967, it was mainly replaced in the production and television of the USSR Armed Forces by the T-62 tank, created on its basis, but the production of the T-55 continued at OZTM until 1979. A number of countries also produced the T-54 itself or its modernized or locally adapted versions.

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The Metenkov House Photographic Museum, a photography museum located in Yekaterinburg in the house of photo painter Veniamin Leontievich Methenkov, is a monument to the history of regional importance.

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The Museum of the History of Yekaterinburg is located in several old buildings in the historical center of the city on Karl Liebknecht Street, house 26. In the building in which in 1905 there was an illegal school of party propagandists, organized by Sverdlov Yakov Mikhailovich.

Wikipedia: Музей истории Екатеринбурга (RU)

Sverdlovsk State Philharmonic - a state (regional) institution of culture in Yekaterinburg. Since 1998, she received the status of academic.

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A. S. Pushkin never visited Yekaterinburg, but his memory is preserved here. In 1899, in connection with the centenary of the poet, Pushkinskaya Street appeared in the city.

Wikipedia: Памятники Пушкину в Екатеринбурге (RU)

The Museum of Dolls and Children's Books "Chudes Country" is a museum in the city of Yekaterinburg, part of the United Museum of Writers of the Urals.

Wikipedia: Музей кукол и детской книги «Страна чудес» (RU)

The Chamber Theater of the United Museum of Writers of Urala is a museum theater created to search for interpretations of literary classics, located in the Literary Quarter of Yekaterinburg at 18 Proletarskaya Street. It is an integral part of the Museum of Writers of the Urals.

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Yekaterinburg municipality - theatre of young spectator in Yekaterinburg. "The poster features performances for all age groups, the theatre motto: ""From childhood and for life!"""

Wikipedia: Екатеринбургский муниципальный театр юного зрителя (RU), Website

A monument to the Lumière brothers was erected in Yekaterinburg opposite the Cosmos Cinema and Concert Theater on the embankment of the city pond in the Zheleznodorozhny district of the city.

Wikipedia: Памятник братьям Люмьер (Екатеринбург) (RU)

Gaidar's house is a historical monument located in Yekaterinburg at the address of the Working Youth embankment, house No. 23.

Wikipedia: Дом Гайдара (RU)

The Yeltsin Monument is a monument to the first President of the Russian Federation, Soviet party and Russian politician and statesman, one of the founders of post-Soviet Russia Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin in Yekaterinburg, the regional center of his small homeland and the city of his many years of residence and activity. Installed at the Yeltsin Center. The monument has been vandalized several times.

Wikipedia: Памятник Ельцину (Екатеринбург) (RU)

The Sverdlovsk State Academic Drama Theater is a Russian drama theater in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, founded on October 2, 1930 in Sverdlovsk. Since 1977, he has been awarded the honorary title of "academic". He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1980).

Wikipedia: Свердловский театр драмы (RU), Website