About jogging in Yekaterinburg

As You know the running boom begun in the seventies worldwide.
And in current days it come in the Ural Mountains.
Now every week various competitions are held among fans of jogging.
Therefore if you want to combine travel to Yekaterinburg
with jog … its possible.

europaasia_marathonThe main calendar of competitions is ski66.ru
The greatest distribution was gained by runnings from 10 to 21 km,
And its very frequent in trail kind.
Thriathlons, cycle races are very seldom in calendar.

 

The price of participation in competitions fluctuates from 10 to 50 dollars depending on
goodness of the organization and time of registration.
Number of people in competitions – from 100 to 3000 (The Europe-Asia Marathon).
If you have arrived to the city and you solve to jog in the morning that you can safety do it.

The main streets in autumn/winter time are well lit, and it is possible to tell
what to jog from 5 – 6 a.m. is safe.
Some danger is constituted by small groups of dogs,
but usually you can visible(heard) them and turn to others way
Also they in general are afraid of courageous people (as a last resort it is possible to throw a stone).
Also in the central districts it is possible to run safely till 10p.m.
But in the morning air is more fresh.


It is safe to run(jog) also the main parks of the city – CPKIO, Zelenaya Rosha etc
The only days when I can not recommend to run its a night after celebration of a City Day.
there is a risk to run near groups of drunk people and they can inadequately to react
to the sports person.

How You can ride a bike, swim in lakes ..it will be in this blog in future.

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How to pass in a zoo

How to pass in a zoo

Ekaterinburg, Mamina-Sibiryaka str, 189

When I walk on the downtown some people often stop me and ask:
– Where there is a zoo?
I think it occurs because of the fact that our zoo rather small (in comparison
with zoos in the known tourist capitals) and it is also disguised by a big red fence.
Therefore it is easy not to see and to pass by.

Animals don’t walk here on ground as in Europe and if walked that I think them
quickly would torture. In the summer here hot from steproads and lack of a shadow,
and in the winter animals in winter open-air cages and them especially not to consider. In cafes it is uncomfortable. But when I was in Rome there uncomfortablly in a cafe too. Probably it is destiny such at cafes at zoo.

What type of visitors are theret? First: parents with children to 7 years. Well it is necessary as that to show
to the child what in principle there are animals in the world, when there is no an opportunity to see them
in real habitat. Secondly Still residents of the next small cities and villages.
Them it is visible at once. Daddy sits in a shadow at the car parked in all inconceivable ways
and often with violation of signs though in to 100-200 meters there are empty seats.
Is at a zoo and the paid parking underground.
In the third – school students groups. Many cities of area and the nearest regional centers
and have no it.

The zoo was love of the past a measure therefore so in general it is quite good and developed.
It is convenient that it is possible to pass all zoo for an hour. Now in minds of administration
the idea to transfer a zoo a countryside wanders.
If you have nothing to borrow time, you travel with children and you want to add to a collection
what was seen one more zoo, Ekaterinburg can quite be object of visit.

How to pass:

1. the trolleybuses: Trolleybuses go on Belinsky str. (to the City Center), Rosa Luxemburg str (from the Center to the south) (numbers 1,5,6,9,11,15,20). You leave troll at a stop “Dom Profsouzov” (“Ulitcza Karla Marksa”) and go on perpendicular street to a route of troll.
You must go on the Karl Marks str 300 meters to the east and must stop when you will see a big red fence. If you see the river (embankment) – that means you have gone west.

If you go on trolleybus on Malysheva str (numbers 6,7,18,20) then you leave at a stop “Dom Kino” and you must move on perpendicular street to the trolleybus’s route (Lunacharsky str) and go 300 meters to the south.

2. the tram: the trams passes on Kuybysheva str (4,9,10,14,21,25,32,33)
You reach to a stop “Lunacharskogo / Kuibysheva” and further 300 meters to the north on Lunacharsky Str

3. the subway: “Geologicheskaya” station, it is possible to pass by tram towards Belinsky str., and look p2. plus
or you can go 1 km on foot to Lunacharsky str, further 300 meters to the north

4. By car: on Mamina-Sibiryaka str the traffic moves from the North to the south.
Near the zoo there are about 50 parking spaces, but they are constantly occupied, you can pass and look for places on perpendicular streets – Engels str, K. Marx str or parallel Lunacharsky str or to drive over money on the underground parking.

5. From the railway Station (Northern bus station). By the subway to St. Geological
further cm p3.
6. from the Southern bus station by the subway to the Geological station + p3, or by tram of 4 cm p2
7. from the airport by high-speed train to the railway Station and further cm p5 or by bus 1 to a stop of Kuibyshev str,
further 500 meters on foot.

well and if you aren’t on friendly terms with cards then of course ask passersby

zoo photos

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