Yekaterinburg railway station was built in 1878 with the construction of the Ural mining railway from Perm to Yekaterinburg with the length of 372 km. It was designed by architect Pyotr Shreyber. Construction began in 1874. A twin train station, currently known as the Perm I railway station, was built to Shreyber's design at the other end of the railway. Opening of the railway triggered the economic growth, improving the quality of life.^[2]

After extension railways to Tyumen in 1886 and Chelyabinsk in 1896 station becomes a railway junction. The small station building could not cope with the increased passenger traffic by the beginning of the 20th century. For this reason Ministry of Transportation decided to build a new building a hundred meters away in 1910, which services the passengers of the Yekaterinburg railway station today. For a very long time the old building served as a railway station for the military. And in 2003, the railway was reconstructed and now serves as a museum open to the public.

The Museum of History & Engineering Science of the Sverdlovsk Railway was opened in the old station building in 2003. Rolling stock is exposed at the Yekaterinburg-Sortirivichny station, but the historical part is located here. In the front section of the building are sculptures of what appears to be hurrying passengers, and a station master changing a bell, and some stack man.^[3] They were designed by Yuri Krylov and Alexander Kokoteyev.^[4][5]

The first thing seen inside the old rail station, is the first steam machine designed by Cherepanov brothers in Nizhny Tagil. Old historic artifacts that relate to the history of the Ural and Perm railroads can be located inside as well.

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