In the long weekend of May 1st we went to Kamensk-Uralsky, where Julia is from. It's a town of 200 000 habitants, 100kms southeast of Ekaterinburg. On rail it's on the Ekaterinburg-Chelyabinsk tracks, on road it goes with Ekaterinburg-Tyumen highway (doubler), and then the last 40kms on small road crossing villages.
The town is more than 300 years old, as it is conveniently on the confluence of two regionally important rivers, the Iset (also crossing Ekat) and the smaller Kamenka.
Kamensk is famous for it's motocross track, where world championships are often held, for the aluminuim plant called UAZ (just like the car, but that's Ulyanovsk Avto Zavod and this is Ural Aluminium Zavod), the colored metal plant, a cannon (on picture) and of course Julia.
Pictures follow.
The Iset near Kamensk
Kamensk 300+
Iset at Kamensk
a local
a non-local
a Kamaz
Julia's music school
The cannon
Next post will be about confectionery
