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Labor Square and a Monument to the City Founders

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The Labor Square in Yekaterinburg is devoid of the nomenclature pathos and therefore is very cozy. It was laid out in the center of the city during the period of 1920 to 1930 on the site of the former merchants' mansions. Its current appearance is defined by two virtually the most elegant buildings of the city: Sevastyanov's House and the building of the former Mining Drugstore, which is occupied by the Museum of Stone-cutting and Jewelry Art History. There is a fountain in the center of the square, built on the site of St. Catherine's Cathedral, which stood here until the 1930s of the XX century. Nowadays a chapel is erected next to the fountain in memory of the destroyed cathedral.

A monument to the city founders Vasily Tatishchev and Wilhelm de Gennin was erected in the Labor Square in 1998. Opening of the monument was timed to the 275th anniversary of Yekaterinburg. The historian and the mining engineer were also perfect administrators who gave a great impetus to the development of the city. It is curious that according to historians’ data, a nobleman Tatishchev and de Gennin hated each other in their lifetime, however, the monument presents them as like-minded people. They were quickly nicknamed by citizens as "Beavis and Butthead", but not everybody can answer the question, who is Tatishchev and who de Gennin on the monument.

Labor Square and a Monument to the City Founders

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