Sunday, August 19, 2012

Pictures from Yekaterinburg

Yekaterinburg, the city where the last tzar Nicolas II. and his family and entourage were murdered...
The church was built on the site where they were shot.




 In the Metropolit's building with a museum...




 






The house where they were murdered which was torn down under Yeltsin...


Old views of Ekatrinburg...





...and new Yekatrinburg... the views were taken from top of this building...








 ....the bank's building behind the opera house....







...a government building...



RB Yekatrinburg...




...the guy who organised the murder...


The opera house....


Heros in front of the railway station...




... bridge between Europe and Asia...



... the Transsib Express...



 ... in the 30s to the 50s the architecture was similar all over Russia...


.... but under the tzar too... 



...in the supermarket.... ;-)



 ... Raiffeisen everywhere...


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