Yekaterinburg is the fourth largest Russian city. It is considered the center of the Ural Federal District. In Yekaterinburg, there is the border between Europe and Asia. There is even a monument that seems to divide the continent into two parts.
Instructions
Step 1
Planes fly to Yekaterinburg from many large Russian cities. Most of the flights are from Moscow. There are flights from Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo and Vnukovo. Travel time is only two and a half hours. There are several day and night flights from St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg from Pulkovo-1. You can also fly from Perm, Samara, Vladivostok, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Khabarovsk, etc.
Step 2
You can get to Yekaterinburg by train from both the east and the west of Russia. Since the famous Trans-Siberian Railway passes through the city. The Ural branded train, equipped with modern comfortable compartments, departs from Moscow. Travel time from Moscow is a little less than a day and a half. There is also a direct rail link between Yekaterinburg and Perm, St. Petersburg and Tyumen.
Step 3
You can get to Yekaterinburg by bus from Kazan, Perm, Kamensk-Uralsky, Nizhnevartovsk, Nizhny Tagil, Pervouralsk, Samara, Solikamsk, Ufa, Chelyabinsk and Yuzhno-Uralsk. There are also flights from smaller settlements of the Ural Federal District.
Step 4
You can get to Yekaterinburg by train from cities located near the Ural capital. There is a direct connection between Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Tagil, Neyvo-Rudyanskaya and Byngovskiy. On the way, the electric train makes stops at intermediate points.
Step 5
It is quite difficult to get to Yekaterinburg by car from Moscow, as the road here and there passes through wooded and swampy terrain. You can go in two ways - along the M5 Ural highway (about 1860 kilometers) or along the M7 Volga highway. The road through the Igra, which turns into the Perm-Yekaterinburg highway, is about 1736 kilometers long. Both roads from Moscow to Yekaterinburg are quite busy, along the route every 10-30 kilometers there are cafes, gas stations, mini-hotels.
