Yekaterinburg is known as the city which stands in two parts of the world, on the border between Europe and Asia. The heart of the city is the so-called Plotinka (the 300-year-old water dam). This is the place where the old iro...

Yekaterinburg is known as the city which stands in two parts of the world, on the border between Europe and Asia. The heart of the city is the so-called Plotinka (the 300-year-old water dam). This is the place where the old iron works used to be. The dam separates the Iset River from the City Pond which is actually the same Iset but much wider. You can have a look at this small waterfall and have a very short walk down the main street, Lenin Prospect, up to the 1905 Square. The main street crosses the city weir. There is a monument to the founders of Yekaterinburg city there. This 9-foot monument to V. Tatischev and V. de Gennin is erected right at the spot where they built their first iron mill in 1723. It was opened in August, 1998 by the 275th anniversary of the city. The monument itself represents two men figures, dressed in the oldfashion jackets of Peter the Great epoch, in wigs with curls. One of them has a cocked hat on his head. Their faces and looks are twin brothers like. That is how the sculptor P. Chus