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WWII Monument
Opposite Lovers Bridge, this unusual WWII monument features a Soviet woman piercing the heart of a winged reptilian creature. The embodiment of evil, we assume.
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Voznesenskaya Church
This Gothic edifice with five gold-tipped black spires has great potential as a Dracula movie set. A truly massive bell hangs in its lurid-pink belfry.
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Rozhdenstva Bogooroditsy Church
The active 1680 Rozhdenstva Bogoroditsy Church is elegant despite the discordant red-green metallic gleam of its multiple domes. A stylistic effect? No, its just rust.
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Konenkov Sculpture Museum
Contains playful woodworks by Smolensk Oblast native Sergei Konenkov, otherwise known as the Russian Rodin. The museum also has works from other noted Smolensk artists.
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Lenin & Gorky Statue
An apparently coal-caked Lenin and Maxim Gorky (founder of socialist realism) discuss – or plot? – something or other, next to the main post office at pr Metallurgov 21.
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Kaliningrad Art Gallery
View modern and contemporary works by local artists, including some striking pieces from the Soviet decades. The gallery shop sells art books and local creations.
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Thunder Tower
This witch-hatted tower offers incredible city views from its fourth tier; a small museum (10am-6pm Tues-Sun, R50) on the third floor covers the kremlins history.
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Artetage
DVGTU’s humble modern art showcase has a few intriguing piss-takes at the country’s red past, such as a bust of Lenin as a novy russky (‘new Russian,’ aka gangster).
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Dmitry Tower
The Dmitry Tower, the main entrance to the kremlin, has changing exhibitions on local history. This is a good place to start a 1.2km walk around the kremlin walls.
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John the Baptist Church
This 1751 church on the main grassy square has an impressively Gothic bulk with unusual octagonal windows and distinctive double domes on long cylindrical towers.
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Iverskaya Chapel
Topped with a golden angel, in a second circle beside Lenin, is the recently rebuilt Iverskaya Chapel whose celebrated icon is dubbed ‘Tomsk’s Spiritual Gateway’.
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Leningradsky Zoo
Although it has had remarkable success in breeding polar bears in captivity (over 100 have been born here since 1993), the zoos enclosures for most animals are cramped.
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Khabarovsk Territorial Museum (New Wing)
The new building is less intriguing than the museums main premises; it has a wing dedicated to the Amur River, with live fish in tanks and more stuffed animals.
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Naberezhnaya Severnoy Dviny
Given the first hint of warm summer weather, Arkhangelskians emerge to stroll this broad promenade and loiter in any of its many seasonal beer-and-shashlyk tents.
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Gorodets Regional Museum
Exhibits on the history of Gorodets and the region include the Virgin of Feodorovo icon – a curious three-dimensional depiction of Jesus creating a holographic effect.
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Viktor Tsoy Monument
The first official monument in Russia to Soviet New Wave star Viktor Tsoy was unveiled in Barnaul in 2010, despite the fact that the late singer had never even been to the city.
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Rastorguev
Situated across the road from the site where the Romanov family were executed, this mansion dates from the late 18th and early 19th centuries and has a pretty park behind it.
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Uspenskaya Church
For years Kyakhta’s only working church, this beautiful, late-19th-century building was closed twice during the communist decades (1938 and 1962). Leave a donation for its upkeep.
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Tikhvin Historical Memorial & Architectural Museum
This good museum has interesting displays on the monastery’s history and examples of its religious art dating back to the 16th century. Expect to be followed around suspiciously.
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Pavlovsk Cathedral
This baroque cathedral can be found at the end of the pedestrianised shopping street off the central pr 25 Oktyabrya. It has a grandly restored interior with a soaring central dome.
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