Old and modern photographs of Yekaterinburg

The Cathedral Square - The Ploschad 1905 goda (The 1905 Year Square)

The view to the Cathedra Square in the early of XX century (the photographer - V. L. Metenkov) and view to the same square with modern name in 2013 (the photographer - V. V. Fomin). The Cathedral you can see on the old photo. Start of construction of the Cathedral - 1771. Completion of the architectural ensemble - 1785. It was destroyed in 1930 by the decision of the regional government. You can see the monument to Lenin on contemporary photography at the spot where stood the Cathedral. Pedestal of the monument is made in the form of the reviewing stand. Commander of the Urals Military District takes Victory Parade on this podium every year on May 9. Heads of the Sverdlovsk region and yekaterinburg city are also present on this reviewing stand.

In the left part of these photos is visible facade, which is a fragment of an object of cultural heritage of federal importance "house, built in pseudo-Gothic" (Lenin Avenue 25/Uritskogo, 1). Unfortunately, on modern photography, you can see only the facade really. This building, as well as three other monuments were completely or partially destroyed in our time. In their place was built shopping center "Europe". The resulting architectural ensemble in our opinion is a monument too... The monument to tawdriness and architectural mediocre.

Note: The Metenkov's photo was scanned from card, prepared by publisher Lobanov S.N.