This is a new issue of our format "Walking with Pivovarov". Today we are walking around the capital of the Urals, which is called the "backbone of Russia", and listen to the associations that it causes.The history of the first Russian businessmen and the main city of street art, the murder of the Romanovs and the Yeltsin Center, the "NKVD combine" and the ruffled intractability of the locals, the surviving punks, the announcer Levitan and the sunrise Balabanova - how does all this together form a metropolis that is reputed to be the most free in Russia?

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