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Soltanov Mosque
The Soltanov mosque, dating from 1867, is located near the central market in the Tatar quarter of town. The colourful interior has a rustic feel. Remove your shoes and make a donation.
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Pushkinskaya Ulitsa
This idyllic promenade is blissfully free of traffic and sprinkled with fountains, sculptures, cafes and restaurants, with outdoor seating and music-playing buskers during the summer.
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Hall of Military Glory
Novgorod boasts status as a City of Military Glory and now has the museum to prove it. Wax statues and bas reliefs tell the stories of the citys heroism from ancient Rus to modern times.
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M’ARS Contemporary Art Centre
Founded by artists who were banned during the Soviet era, this gallery space includes 10 exhibit halls showing the work of top contemporary artists, as well as a cool club and cafe in the basement.
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Statue of Tsar Alexander III
Adorning the Angara embankment a recast statue of Alexander III (a copy of the 1904 original) has the only tsar ever to visit Siberia looking as though he’s holding an invisible balloon on a string.
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Kazansky Church
The gigantic Kazansky Church is a theme-park-esque confection of salmon-pink walls and fluoro turquoise domes topped with gold baubled crosses. Get off tram 4 two stops northeast of the bus station.
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Dogadin Art Gallery
The Dogadin Art Gallery is especially strong on works of Astrakhan-born Boris Kustodiev, who painted lushly coloured semi-folkloric scenes of merchant life. Guided tours are in English. Call ahead.
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Private Garden
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Return Memorial
Located 500m along ul Khrushcheva from the roundabout, in the direction away from the centre, the Return Memorial by sculptor Ernst Neizvestny is a striking monument to the Kalmyk deportation.
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Red Mosque
This area of former Tatar and Persian sloboda south of the May 1st Canal is still predominantly Muslim, which is reflected in the proliferation of mosques, such as the city’s oldest Red Mosque .
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Silver Lenin
Fans of Soviet kitsch will enjoy Adlers silver-painted Lenin statue. Come out of the central market, turn left and Lenin is waiting for you on the right, some 100m down – what else? – ul Lenina.
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Crystal, Lacquer Miniatures and Embroidery Museum
Housed in the former Old Believers’ Trinity Church this museum features the crafts of Gus-Khrustalny and other nearby towns. The shop in the basement has a decent selection of crystal for sale.
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Countess Panina’s House
This museum re-creates the atmosphere of the 19th century. The countess Panina was the last of the residents in the mansion, where the mainstay is a large collection of irons and historic clothing.
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Vladivostok Fortress Museum
On the site of an old artillery battery overlooking Sportivnaya Harbour, this museum has cannons outside and a six-room indoor exhibit of photos and many, many guns inside. English explanations.
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Chaev Mansion
This elegant mansion, constructed in 1907 for the engineer SN Chaev, is now occupied by a public clinic. It combines neoclassical and art nouveau motifs and has a beautifully preserved interior.
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Fringilla Ornithological Station
Fringilla Ornithological Station is a bird-ringing centre in operation since 1957, where enormous funnelled nets can trap an average of 1000 birds a day; the birds are then tagged, studied and released.
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Permafrost Institute
True permafrost nerds might check out the Permafrost Institute, about 2km west of the city centre. It has a lab that stays a constant –6°C, but high prices make this more of a tour-group option.
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Pryamskoy Vzvoz
Wooden stairs lead beneath the kremlin’s Pryamskoy Vzvoz (gatehouse) to the wonderfully dilapidated old town full of weather-beaten churches and angled wooden homes sinking between muddy lanes.
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Children’s Art Gallery
Housed in the landmark Engineer Klodt’s House (Дом инженера Клодта), which resembles a fairy-tale castle and contains a collection of children’s art and art for children, who can pick up a brush here.
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Raising of the Cross Church
The 1758 baroque Raising of the Cross Church has a fine interior of gilt-edged icons and examples of intricate brickwork in a rounded style that’s unique to Irkutsk and the Selenga Delta village of Posolskoe.
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