Bridge on the Plotinka dam in Ekaterinburg, Russia
Plotinka, the Dam and Rhodonite A good place to start is where Ekaterinburg was officially founded in 1723 as the birthplace of Russian industry. Here stretches the 209-metre long dam, first built in 1723, reconstructed twice, and now a recognised industrial monument. You can see the slits through which the water ran to work the wheels like a water mill. Few buildings of the old wooden factory area survive though you can see the oldest, from 1764, currently the Fine Arts Museum. Relics of early industry dot the surrounding Historical Park, including lumps of Ural rock and a large sample of rhodonite. On the left bank of the Iset River rises a monument to the founders of Ekaterinburg on the site of their first iron mill.
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