High-rise buildings in Yekaterinburg are a priority for modern construction. "Vysotsky", "Yekaterinburg-city" - these buildings are known not only in the Ural capital, but also far beyond its borders. No less interesting is the history of high-rise construction in this city.
What is a skyscraper
Skyscraper (eng. skyscraper - "scrape the sky") is a high-rise building designed both for people to live and for work in organizations inside it. But the question of which building has the right to be called a skyscraper is rather controversial. Some people believe that these are buildings touching the clouds, however, depending on the terrain, the lower cloud masses can float at absolutely different heights. Some people believe that this building is higher than 100, 120, 150, 200 m. If a skyscraper is more than 300 m in height, it is already called ultra-high, and if it reaches 600 m, then mega-high. The tallest building located in the UAE is the Burj Khalifa, which is 829.8 meters high!
Thus, in Russia and the world, iftake into account the average values, a skyscraper will be called a building above 150 m. From 35 to 150 m - these are skyscrapers, high-rise buildings. The height of a skyscraper is considered in two categories - the location of the roof of the last floor and the highest point (spire, turret, etc.).
As for the skyscrapers of Yekaterinburg, photos of which you will see here, their construction today is due to the following reasons:
- high cost of plots within the city;
- the image of the Ural capital - in order to host international events, the city needs to acquire the appearance of a world-class business center;
- availability of developers capable of constructing sustainable high-rise buildings.
And now let's move on to a retrospective - the history of high-rise construction in Yekaterinburg-Sverdlovsk.
XVIII c. - 1920s: tallest buildings in the city
Before the revolution, Yekaterinburg was a very "undersized" city - it was mainly characterized by houses of 1-2 floors, even three-story ones were rare - they accounted for only 0.91% of the total. The largest civil building in all these years was considered the five-story mill Borchaninov-Pervushin (1906-1908).
As in many other cities, the original "skyscrapers" of Yekaterinburg in those days were religious buildings. Until 1774, Catherine's Cathedral (58 m) was the highest, until 1886 the Epiphany Cathedral (66.2 m) was the highest, and until 1930 - the Great Chrysostom Church (77.2 m).
1930-1960: beginninghigh-rise construction in Yekaterinburg
In the 1920s a direction was taken for the construction of higher houses in the Ural capital. The first such buildings were communal houses, the Tsentralnaya Hotel, the building of the Sverdlovsk Railway Administration. The pioneer skyscraper of the city was the 11-storey residential building of the House of Soviets (1930-1932). This building in the constructivist spirit was erected on the street. March 8, 2. In 1933, a 10-storey building of the former dormitory "Sport" (today it is the Iset Hotel) was also built on the territory of the Chekist camp.
Few people know, but in 1931 it was in Sverdlovsk that the construction of a 150-meter skyscraper began as part of the "House of Industry" complex. But an accident prevented the grandiose undertaking - the first five floors at the construction stage were destroyed by fire in 1935. Construction was suspended, and then completely canceled.
From 1940 to 1960, the building of the Rubin plant, the building of the Sverdlovsk City Council of People's Deputies were built, standard construction of 6-, and later 9-storey buildings began.
1970s-2010s: the era of skyscrapers and skyscrapers
In the seventies in Sverdlovsk, by that time a million-plus city, the construction of real skyscrapers - 12-16-storey buildings - started. The first two sixteen-story buildings (1976-1977) appeared at the address: st. Yasnaya, 28 and 30.
In 1975, construction began on the then standards of the Yekaterinburg-Sverdlovsk skyscraper - the 23-storey House of Soviets, or the White House(89-meter building). It was the tallest building in the city for two decades. In the 2000s, Antey, the 26-storey residential complex Raduzhny, Ekaterina's Ring, Aquamarine broke his record.
In the mid-2000s, the construction of three high-rise projects starts at once - the Vysotsky skyscraper, Prisms, and the February Revolution residential complex. In addition, a 20-25-year plan for skyscraper development of the city is being developed. It includes skyscrapers "Tatishchev", "Iset", "De Gennin", "Ural", united in the business complex "Yekaterinburg City", 33-storey "Demidov Plaza" and a number of other high-rise buildings. However, the financial crisis prevented the implementation of such a grandiose project - construction was frozen until 2010, then the Iset construction was resumed. But high-rise residential construction was not affected by difficult times - in 2012, the construction of the Olimpiysky residential complex (38-storey buildings), the Opera complex (42-storey building) started.
It is estimated that as of January 2016, 1066 skyscrapers (houses over 35 m) were erected within the city of Yekaterinburg. This allows the Ural capital to take 86th place in the ranking of high-rise cities in the world.
New skyscrapers in Yekaterinburg
What skyscrapers are there in the Ural capital? Consider in the table the ten tallest buildings in the city at the moment.
| Name | Height in meters | Stories | Address |
| "Iset" |
206, 5 (by roof level) 212, 8 (corona level) |
52 | St. B. Yeltsin, 6 |
| "Vysotsky" | 188, 3 | 54 | St. Malysheva, 51 |
| "Prisma" (business center "Sverdlovsk") |
136 (on the roof) 151 (maximum point of the spire) |
37 | St. Heroes of Russia, 2 |
| LCD "February Revolution" | 139, 6 | 42 | St. February Revolution, 15 |
| "Demidov" |
129, 78 (by roof level) 134, 92 (crown height) |
34 | St. Boris Yeltsin, 3/2 |
| LCD "Olympic" ("Champion Park") | 128, 1 | 37 | Crossroads st. Schmidt and st. Machine-made |
| LCD "Malevich" | 101 | 35 | St. Mayakovsky, 2e |
| Palladium Business Center |
84, 5 (roof height) 98, 8 (maximum spire height) |
20 | St. Khokhryakova, 10 |
| World Trade Center (Panorama Hotel) | 94 | 24 | St. Kuibysheva, 44d |
| Summit Business Center | 93, 85 | 23 | St. March 8, 45a |
Vysotsky skyscraper in Yekaterinburg
The height of the building is 188.3 m. It is the third phase of the Antey complex. Until 2015, the 54-storey (including 6 technical levels) Vysotsky was the tallest building in the Ural capital. The name was chosen in 2010 following the results of the competition - the jury considered more than 12 thousand various names.
The Vysotsky skyscraper in Yekaterinburg (address: Malysheva St., 51, at the crossroads of Malysheva and Krasnoarmeiskaya streets) was officially opened on November 25, 2011 - especially for the premiere of the film "Vysotsky. Thank you for being alive." The family of the legendary performer and poet officially allowed the building to bear the name of their great ancestor. Today, anyone can visit the museum of Vladimir Vysotsky on the second floor of the complex. Only here you can see the manuscript of his latest poem, personal belongings of the Vysotsky-Vladi family, the poet's personal car Mercedes 350 W 116, and his wax figure.
One of the sights of the city is an open observation deck on "Vysotsky", opened in 2012.
"Ekaterinburg City": reality and projects
Today the highest skyscraper in Yekaterinburg is "Iset". You can see a photo of this building below. Iset is part of the Ekaterinburg City project, which has not yet been fully implemented. In addition to the skyscraper, the Hyatt Regency hotel complex and the Demidov business house were built within its framework. Construction is planned to be completed by 2022Ekaterina Tower, expected to be 300 m high. The construction of a business park, De Gennina, Tatishchev, and Ekaterina Boulevard has been postponed indefinitely.
The Ural capital is a city where the construction of high-rise buildings and skyscrapers has unfolded today, as they say, on a grand scale. At the same time, most of them are not typical buildings, but complexes with their own recognizable "face".
