Photo tour with RIA Novosti: Yekaterinburg

On June 15-17, 2009, Yekaterinburg in the Ural Federal District will host the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and a BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) summit.

The Urals State Technology University named after Russia’s first President Boris Yeltsin.

History Boulevard hosting parade on Yekaterinburg City Day.

The Savior On Spilled Blood Church in Yekaterinburg built in place of the Ipatiev House where the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II, and his family were executed on July 17, 1918.

Changing of the guard at the monument to Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov in Yekaterinburg.

Monument to the legendary English rock and pop band, The Beatles in downtown Yekaterinburg.

The Urals Heavy Machinery Plant (Uralmash).

The city circus.

A monument to a computer keyboard in Yekaterinburg.

View of downtown Yekaterinburg and the Iset River.

A monument to Vasily Tatishchev and de Genin, the city’s founders, in downtown Yekaterinburg.

City Hall building in downtown Yekaterinburg.

International Terminal of Koltsovo airport in Yekaterinburg.

This old water tower in downtown Yekaterinburg is an architectural monument.

Opera House in downtown Yekaterinburg.