Vastness of the lake

Day #27: Yekaterinburg

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May 8th 2013
A short day today, as we caught the late-afternoon train on to Novosibirsk (a journey that would take the best part of 24 hours). No time to embark on a significant day of activities, so we went for a walk around Yekaterinburg's central lake. It is surrounded by roads and buildings and practically no greenery, so feels very manmade and Soviet, and lacking in any atmosphere, especially on a qui ... read more

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Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynas... ... read more