Russia’s fourth biggest city does not exaggerate its significance with fabulousness and excitement. Yekaterinburg, rather, kicks back and lets its pedigree reel you in. Canny agents and investors have been coming there for quite a while, but recently, holidaymakers are stopping by as well, regularly to break up their Trans-Siberian voyage and investigate the Ural Mountains. Those savvy enough to remain for a couple of days will find a lively city with vitality to coordinate and a nature play area only a hop and a skip away. 

Named after Peter the Great’s significant other Catherine, the capital of the Ural district lies on the outskirt of Europe and Asia and has for quite some time been a prosperous city. Yekaterinburg assumed a significant job in exchange between the east and west all through the 1700s and 1800s, expanding its status and riches; all the more as of late, mining and mechanical work has moved the city into the spotlight. 

One of promising spots in Yekaterinburg is Mars in the Urals. What should you know about this Russian Mars? Come to Sverdlovsk Region in Yekaterinburg to find out. Or, better yet, keep on reading this article. 

About Sverdlovsk Region

Sverdlovsk oblast (locale) is situated in west-focal Russia. The oblast involves a zone along the eastern slopes of the Ural Mountains, extending from the crestline which arrives at 5,148 feet (1,569 m) in Mount Konzhakovsky Kamen toward the West Siberian Plain. Nearly the whole oblast is in swampy woods, or taiga, of pine, birch, and larch, with just the most noteworthy summits over the treeline; in the extraordinary south is backwoods steppe with birch forests. Soils are poor and horticulture is to a great extent bound toward the southeast.  

Around 90 percent of the populace is urban, an impression of the role of the oblast in the Urals modern region. It is astoundingly plentiful in minerals, including iron metal from Kachkana, Nizhny Tagil, Kushva, and somewhere else; manganese at Ivdel; cobalt, nickel, tungsten, and vanadium near Yekaterinburg; bauxite at Severouralsk; and beryllium near Asbest. One of the biggest asbestos deposits in Russia happens at Asbest, and copper, platinum, and gold are broadly dispersed. Coal and lignite are rare and the oblast needs fuel, bringing in coal from the Kuznetsk Basin and gaseous petrol from Tyumen oblast.  

Based on the local mineral deposits, iron working and copper working have been significant in the district since the mid eighteenth century, yet today there is a fluctuated and innovatively current metallurgical industry. Iron and steel are made at various focuses, including one of the biggest in Russia, at Nizhny Tagil. Aluminium is made at Krasnoturinsk and Kamensk-Uralsky; and nickel is processed at Rezh and copper at a few focuses. Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Tagil are the central focuses of heavy engineering. The concoction and timber-working ventures likewise are exceptionally created. 

Mars in the Urals

Do you wish for one day visiting the Red Planet a.k.a. Mars? If yes, you definitely have to go to the Sverdlovsk Region in Yekaterinburg. It is a completely amazing spot, only 100 kilometres from Yekaterinburg. Local people call it “Mars in the Urals”. However, in actual truth, it is only a set of deserted mud quarries.  

It is perhaps the greatest deposit in the Urals, extending over a separation of 20 kilometres, the quarries spread a zone of around 75 square kilometres in total. The fields were first created in the nineteenth century, and in 1930, the Bogdanovich Refractories Plant was worked there — the first in the nation to supply clay.  

The clay was utilized to make the red blocks used in the development of metallurgical plants in the Urals. The local clay is extremely shifted in shading, going from white to charcoal dark. It contains pollutions of iron, mica, and pyrites. In numerous spots, the mud has dried out and the ground has broken.  

There is, for all intents and purposes, no vegetation of any sort there. However, there are a few spooky lakes, blue or darker in shading, giving the scene a “Martian” appearance. The shade of every lake relies upon which compound element prevails: Quartz, marcasite, ilmenite or rutile.  

The lakes have little islands though it is difficult to get to them. Normally, you cannot take a dip or even enter the water since every one of the lakes are contaminated by mechanical waste from the plant.  

Over decades, the water has dissolved rivulets in the earth, and numerous earthenware hued mud ruin piles, in the state of scallops, have shaped in the quarry.  

You should not come there by any means since it is anything but a vacation destination. Be that as it may, would this be able to stop a gutsy Instagrammer? You know the appropriate response already. Incidentally, even exceptional authority photograph visits are presently sorted out to Bogdanovich where voyagers are given space suits for a themed photograph shoot. 

Rich of Gemstones

Once plentiful in gemstones and minerals, the Ural Mountains, and Yekaterinburg as the district’s primary city, have gotten a centre for adornments exchange, known for splendid skilled workers, creating masterpieces out of gemstones. You can in any case hear some excellent legends, the Mistress of Copper Mountain being the most prevalent and visit numerous genuine shops, selling locally made adornments. 

Not only that, the Ural Mountains are additionally a boundless wellspring of outdoor fun. From country skiing, horseback riding, paragliding, climbing trails to paddling and kayaking, the rundown continues forever. You do not need to leave Yekaterinburg to see the Ural nature at its best. The lovely Shartash lake and baffling Kamennye palatki (stone tents) can also be the ideal spot for an evening walk. 

All those reasons above should encourage you to come to Sverdlovsk Region in Yekaterinburg and see for yourself what Mars in the Urals has to offer.