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Manege Central Exhibition Hall
Formerly the Horse Guards’ Riding School, this large white neoclassical building was constructed between 1804 and 1807 from a design by Giacomo Quarenghi. It now houses rotating art and commercial exhibitions, often featuring contemporary and local artists. Check the website to see
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Local Studies Museum
The Local Studies Museum contains some interesting treasures excavated from the region, as well as exhibits on nature (including Volga fish) and local life. Temporary exhibitions fill one section.
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Special Treasury
This small museum within the main palace is a repository for the personal effects of the Romanovs from Peter the Great onwards. On display youll see ceremonial clothing worn by Peter, a collection of Catherine the Greats enamel snuff boxes, a host of Fabergé creations, and the twin
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Monastery of Saviour & St Jacob
The restored monastery is the fairy-tale apparition you’ll see as you approach Rostov by road or rail. Take bus 1 or 2 or walk alongside Lake Nero 2km west from the kremlin. English-language excursions may be available for R300 from the excursion bureau next to the gates. For a don
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Bathhouse
Completed in 1878, this is another example of old Russian architecture, with wood carved exterior and checker-painted roof. When the Mamontovs lived here, the building was used primarily as a guest house, and now houses an exhibit of carpentry and woodwork, including work by Yelena
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Ploshchad Iskusstv
In the 1820s and 1830s, Carlo Rossi designed pl Iskusstv (Arts Sq), named after the cluster of museums and concert halls that surrounds it, and the lovely Mikhailovskaya ul, which joins the square to Nevsky pr. There is invariably a pigeon perched atop the statue of Pushkin , erect
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Lenin & Esplanade Parks
Explore these two central and adjacent leafy parks, separated by Leningradsky pr, to find intriguing statutes and carved trees. At the southern end of Lenin Park is the Alvar Aalto Library , designed by the famous Finnish architect in 1935 and, in the Esplanade Park, the Lutheran S
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Ring Rock
This curious natural circle in a limestone cliff is on the outskirts of Mirny village, some 5km from Kislovodsk. Its an intriguing sight, despite the abundance of graffiti. Below the rock, locals hawk handmade woolly socks and souvenirs. Come here with an excursion from Kislovodsk
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National Art Museum
If time is limited, dont miss this excellent museum, with Sakha-themed exhibits covering local craftmaking traditions (mammoth tusk carvings, reindeer boots, finely carved urns for kumiss ), landscape paintings and portraits. Dont miss the captivating paintings of village life by A
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Tverskaya ploshchad
A statue of the founder of Moscow, Yury Dolgoruky , presides over this prominent square near the bottom of Tverskaya ul. So does Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, as the buffed-up five-storey building opposite is the Moscow mayor’s office . Many ancient churches are hidden in the back streets
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Statue of Vladimir Mayakovsky
Although the doomed writer never actually visited Novokuznetsk, he was so moved by the Soviet project to build a new city that he penned a poem starting with the lines, famous all over Russia, ‘Ya znau budet gorod, ya znau sadu svest’ (‘I know there will be a city, I know the garde
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Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in Putinki
When this church was completed in 1652, the Patriarch Nikon responded by banning tent roofs like the ones featured here. Apparently, he considered such architecture too Russian, too secular and too far removed from the Church’s Byzantine roots. Fortunately, the Church of the Nativi
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Anzer Island
The second-largest island in the archipelago, Anzer Island has its share of stone labyrinths and burial mounds, as well as a scattering of monastic sketes, the oldest dating back to the 17th century. One of these was used a typhoid hospital in the 1920s, and hundreds of prisoners d
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Anninskie Fortifications
At the southern end of Tverdysh Island is this double line of fortifications built between 1730 and 1750, as protection against the Swedes, and named after Empress Anna Ioanovna. Nearby, on a hill just above the restaurant Russky Dvor, a handsome statue of Peter the Great surveys t
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Vysotsky Viewing Platform
Take the lift up 54 floors and 180m to the viewing platform for one of Russias best urban panoramas. Children under 15 must be accompanied by an adult. The name of the tower is a pun on the Russian word for high and the name of the singer Vladimir Vysotsky. A small museum is dedica
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Grandfather Frost Post Office
Ever wondered why you never got that bike? You were probably sending your Santa letters to the North Pole instead of to this adorable log cabin. Here, sacks and boxes overflow with letters from children all over Russia (and beyond) that are all sorted and dutifully answered. Wags h
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Refectory Church of St Sergei
The huge block with the ‘wallpaper’ paint job is the Refectory Church of St Sergei, so called because it was once a dining hall for pilgrims. Now it’s the Assumption Cathedral’s winter counterpart, holding morning services in cold weather. It is closed outside of services, except f
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Municipal Museum of Regional Studies
In a newly inaugurated building near Sudostroitel Park, several rooms of photos and knick-knacks show how Komsomolsk rose from the tent camps of original pioneers in 1932 to an industrial Soviet city. It also contains some old fish-skin jackets and other Nanai artefacts, plus a spa
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Park Tsvetnik
The hill rising up behind the Lermontov Gallery is Park Tsvetnik, which forms a 1km-long arc around the eastern end of pr Kirova. Walk around the right side of the Lermontov Gallery and ascend to the park via Dianas Grotto , a favourite picnic spot in Lermontov. At the top of the h
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Vorontsovskaya Cave
A popular and worthwhile excursion from Sochi is to Vorontsovskaya Cave, inland from Matsesta. It has about 500m of illuminated passages with stalactites and the like. It gets cold inside, so dress accordingly. The scenic drive from Sochi takes about one hour; a round-trip taxi sho
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