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Ekaterinburg: Photo Tour

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Russian Orthodox cross ("the eight ends cross") on the place of the execution of the last Russian Tsar Nicolay II and his family; Vosnesenskaya Hill, Lunacharskogo Street, Ekaterinburg, Russia. Vosnesenskaya Hill is the highest place of the city.

The old wooden chapel (1998) on the place where the House of Engineer Ipat'ev was situated on Vosnesenskaya Hill, in the basement of which the Tsar's family and 2 devoted servants were shot at night 16 July 1918. For many years the building served as the museum of the revolution with the room of execution as the main attraction. The building was destroyed in 1977 according to the secret directive of Politburo.

The new wooden chapel replaced the old one (1999). It is planned to build there "the Temple on the Blood in the Name of All Russian Saints". The city administration is currently trying to collect money for the building.

The queue to the Vosnesenskaya Cathedral during the ceremony of reburial of the remains of the Tsar's family (16 July 1998, 80 years after their death). The Cathedral is situated right in front of the place of Tsar's execution. During the Soviet time the Cathedral was the museum of natural sciences, and was given back to the Russian Orthodox Church only in the middle 1990's.

During the ceremony of reburial of the Tsar's family (16 July 1998).

Interesting, it was a warm sunny summer day in the morning, there were not even clouds in the sky. Closer to the time of the ceremony, some clouds appeared from nowhere, and covered the sun.

At the moment the coffins were taken outside the church, it thundered and started raining.

By the end of the ceremony (which took about 45 minutes), the sun looked through the rain again. The coffins were placed in the cars, and left for the airport, to be transported to the last resort of former Tsars - St Petersburg. It was still possible to hear the sirens, when the rain stopped. Tell me it was not symbolic.

The Black Cross close to Ekaterinburg at the civil victims monument (Moscow highway). Its height is approximately 11 meters (12 yds)

The monument of civil victims (Moscow highway, outside Ekaterinburg)

The names of tsar Nicolay II and his family were just a few names on this huge list at the monument of civil victims outside Ekaterinburg

Europe-Asia monument (Old Moscow highway, outside Ekaterinburg)

The memorial stone at the Europe Asia monument says the first geographical sign Europe-Asia was established here in 1837

The lake Peschanoye outside Ekaterinburg