Sverdlovsk Oblast

Best travel reports from Sverdlovsk Oblast

Jekaterinburg - Yekaterinburg

Yekaterinburg - Day 10-13 - July 24-27, 2019

Monuments are the questionable question marks of history, because most people ask: 'Who was that anyway?' (Erhard Blanck)

We have no idea whom or what all these statues are dedicated to, but there is no shortage of them in Katharinenburg. Aside from photo sessions in the best Adidas...

Life on the road

On the Trans-Siberian Railway

Internet is just a hype. (Bill Gates)

This is also believed by the Russian State Railways (RŽD). There is no Wi-Fi on the Trans-Siberian Railway. Since we have been traveling by train for the last almost 30 hours,...

From the beautiful fisherman and the strict hotel

23.06. We have now separated and I continued without the others. Towards the east. And due to a lack of sense of direction, I ended up at this beautiful lake. A fisherman's wife...

Yekaterinburg

Yekaterinburg is quite a big city which had a lot to offer. On my way there, I made a very pleasant encounter: Aleksey, my train conductor, not only spoke very well English but...

08/08/2019: Tsar, Yeltsin, and Europe

We are still in Asia, but 40 km to the west, Europe begins. We visited the demarcation line (60th meridian) between Asia and Europe today. Tomorrow, we will finally enter the...

07.08.2019: Drushba in Yekaterinburg

Continued to the Ural Mountains (about 350 km). Originally, we imagined the Ural Mountains to be more mountainous, but our route was mostly hilly at best. Yekaterinburg is the...