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Yekaterinburg-City, Yekaterinburg — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Yekaterinburg-City is Yekaterinburg's high-rise business quarter, a tight cluster of towers on the Iset embankment.
About Yekaterinburg-City
Where to stay in Yekaterinburg-City
Each area has its own feel; here's who each one suits.
Beds sit under the towers. Yekaterinburg-City keeps its lodgings on and around Boris Yeltsin Street, where the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center faces the Iset embankment and the walk to the wider centre stays short. Guests who want the river view and the office-hour energy of the quarter settle nearest the water. Choose your block by the door you want.
About Yekaterinburg-City
What are the main landmarks in Yekaterinburg-City?
The Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center anchors the quarter, its museum and archive set on the Iset embankment beside the Monument to Boris Yeltsin. The towers rise around it. A short walk inland reaches the heart of old Yekaterinburg, where the Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theatre and the Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts draw crowds, and the white Sevastyanov's House looks out over the water.
The Church of All Saints marks the ground of the former Ipatiev House nearby, tying the modern district to the city's older story. New glass meets old stone.
What is the history of Yekaterinburg-City?
The quarter is young. Yekaterinburg-City rose on former industrial ground by the Iset in the 2000s, when planners set a cluster of towers on the embankment beside the growing centre of Yekaterinburg. The Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center opened here in the 2010s, giving the new business district a civic anchor and a name drawn from the street it faces.
Glass towers replaced the old riverside works.
Where is Yekaterinburg-City?
Yekaterinburg-City stands on the Iset embankment at the edge of central Yekaterinburg, a compact cluster of towers rising above the river.
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Updated July 2026