1905 Square (Yekaterinburg)

1905 Square (Russian: Площадь 1905 годa) also translated as the Square of 1905 is a square in Yekaterinburg, Russia. It is the oldest square in Yekaterinburg.[1]The existence of the square goes back over 200 years. The centrepiece of the area is the Exaltation of God Cathedral, which at the time, had a bell tower which rose to a height of 88 metres, the highest point in the city. Other landmarks include a statue of Vladimir Lenin.

1905 Square

Native name	Площадь 1905 года  (Russian)
Former name(s)	Cathedral Square
Type	Square
Location	Yekaterinburg, Russia
Other
Known for	The square is named after the 1905 Russian Revolution.

The square was inaugurated with its current name in 1917, when the newly appointed Soviet authorities in the city who took power as a result of the October Revolution renamed the square after the victims of the 1905 Russian Revolution.[2] On 29 December 1989, a protest took place on the square in front of the City Council building, protesting the actions of the National Communist Party of the Soviet Union.[3][4]

Since 1947, New Year's Eve celebrations take place on the square.[5]

Before 1991, military parades of the Yekaterinburg Garrison and demonstrations of workers in honor of May 1 and Revolution Day took place on the square. Since the fall of the USSR, the only parades that take place on the square are in honor of Victory Day.

During his tenure as First Secretary of the Sverdlovsk Communist Party, Boris Yeltsin worked on the square in one of the administrative buildings.