High-rise construction, Ekaterinburg. Skyscrapers of Yekaterinburg

High-rise buildings in Yekaterinburg are a priority for modern construction. "Vysotsky", "Ekaterinburg 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 ( skyscraper - "cross the sky") - a high-rise building, designed for people to live, and to work in organizations inside it. But the question of which building has the right to be called a skyscraper is rather controversial. Some believe that these are structures that touch the clouds, however, depending on the terrain, the lower cloud masses can float absolutely at different altitudes. Some believe that this building is above 100, 120, 150, 200 m. If the skyscraper is more than 300 m in height, it is already called super-high, and if it reaches 600 m, it is mega high. The tallest building is located in the UAE - it's Burj Khalifa, whose height is 829.8 m!

Thus, in Russia and the world, if you take into account the average values, a skyscraper will be called a building above 150 m. From 35 to 150 m - it is high -rise buildings , high-rise buildings. The height of the skyscraper is considered in two categories - the location of the roof of the last floor and the highest point (spire, turret, etc.).

As for skyscrapers in Yekaterinburg, photos of which you will see here, their erection for today is due to the following reasons:

• High cost of sites within the city;
• Image of the Ural capital - to take international actions the city needs to find the image of a world-class business center;
• The presence of developers who are able to build reliable high-rise buildings.

And now we will proceed smoothly to a retrospective - the history of high-rise construction in Yekaterinburg-Sverdlovsk.

XVIII century. - 1920s: the highest buildings of the city

Prior to the revolution, Yekaterinburg was a very "low-growing" city - it was mainly characterized by houses in 1-2 floors, even three-story houses were a rarity - they were only 0.91% of the total. The largest civil building in all these years was the five-storey mill Borchaninov-Pervushina (1906-1908 gg.).

Like in many other cities, the original "skyscrapers" of Ekaterinburg in those days were religious buildings. Prior to 1774, the Catherine's Cathedral (58 m) took precedence, until 1886 the highest was the Epiphany Cathedral (66.2 m), and until 1930 - the Great Chrysostom (77.2 m) temple.

1930-1960: the beginning of high-rise construction in Yekaterinburg

In the 1920's. A direction was taken to build higher houses in the Urals capital. The first such buildings were commune houses, the Central Hotel, the building of the Sverdlovsk Railway Administration. High-pioneer of the city was the 11-storey residential building of the House of Soviets (1930-1932). This construction in Constructivist spirit was erected on the street. March 8, 2. In 1933 a 10-storey building of the former hostel "Sport" was built on the territory of the town of Chekists (today it is the hotel "Iset").

Very 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 the grand venture prevented the accident - the first five floors during the construction phase were destroyed by fire in 1935. The construction was suspended, and after that it was canceled altogether.

From 1940 to 1960 the building of the Rubin combine, the building of the Sverdlovsk City Council of People's Deputies was built, standard construction of 6-, and later 9-storey buildings was started.

1970-2010-ies: the era of skyscrapers and skyscrapers

In the seventies in Sverdlovsk, by that time the city of a millionaire, the construction of real skyscrapers - 12-16-storey buildings started. The first two sixteen-storey buildings (1976-1977) appeared at: ul. Clear, 28 and 30.

In 1975, construction began at the then standards of the skyscraper Ekaterinburg-Sverdlovsk - 23-storeyed House of Soviets, or the White House (89-meter building). The highest structure of the city, he was for two decades. In the two thousandth of its record beats "Antey", 26-storey LCD "Rainbow", "Ring of Catherine", "Aquamarine".

In the middle of the 2000s, the construction of three high-rise projects started at once: the skyscraper Vysotsky, Prizma, the February Revolution. In addition, a 20-25-year plan for the city's skyscraper development is being developed. It includes skyscrapers Tatishchev, Iset De Gennin, Ural, integrated into the business complex Ekaterinburg 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 - the construction was frozen until 2010, then resumed the construction of Iset. But high-rise residential construction did not touch hard times - in 2012, construction began LCD "Olympic" (38-storey buildings), Opera complex (42-story building).

It is estimated that as of January 2016, 1,066 skyscrapers (houses above 35 m) were erected within the city of Yekaterinburg. This allows the Ural capital to occupy the 86th place in the ranking of high-altitude cities of the world.

New skyscrapers in Yekaterinburg

What skyscrapers are there in the Ural capital? Consider in the table the top ten of the highest buildings of the city at the moment.

Skyscraper "Vysotsky" in Yekaterinburg

The height of the building is 188.3 m. It is the third stage of the Antey complex. Until 2015, 54-storey (taking into account 6 technical levels), "Vysotsky" was the tallest building in the Ural capital. The name was chosen in 2010 based on the results of the competition - the jury considered more than 12 thousand various names.

Skyscraper "Vysotsky" in Yekaterinburg (address: Malysheva Street, 51, at the crossroads of Malyshev and Krasnoarmeyskaya streets) was officially opened on November 25, 2011 - specially for the premiere of the film "Vysotsky: Thank You for Living." The family of the legendary artist and poet officially permitted 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 most recent poem, the personal belongings of the Vysotsky-Vladi family, the personal car of the poet Mercedes 350 W 116, as well as his wax figure.

One of the sights of the city is an open viewing platform on the "Vysotsky", opened in 2012.

"Ekaterinburg City": Reality and Projects

Today, the highest skyscraper in Yekaterinburg is Iset. Photos of this building you can see below. "Iset" is part of the so far completely unrealized project "Ekaterinburg City". In addition to the skyscraper, the hotel complex Hyatt Regency, business house "Demidov" was built within its framework. By 2022 the construction of the "Ekaterina" tower is planned, the expected height of which is 300 m. The construction of the business park, "De Gennina", "Tatishcheva", Boulevard of Catherine has been postponed indefinitely.

The Ural capital is a city where construction of high-rise buildings and skyscrapers is now unfolding, which is called on a broad footing. However, most of them are not typical buildings, but complexes with their recognizable "face."