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Peter I Statue
This windswept take on Peter the Great and the unexotic River Terminal building both feature on Russia’s R500 banknotes.
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Children’s Museum
This replica of a 19th-century schoolroom offers classes in the making of Gorodets-style animal-shaped clay penny whistles.
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Culture Castle
Everything from classical concerts to Miss Kirovsk pageants are held in this impressive, pastel-yellow building next to the pool.
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Radishchev Museum
This is the main branch of the city’s Fine Arts Museum. It contains a good selection from the 18th to the 20th centuries.
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Alabin Museum
Come here for exhibits on regional palaeontology and archaeology, including dinosaur fossils found in the Zhiguli Hills.
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Guardhouse
Located inside the guardhouse from 1807, this museum gives quite a good insight into everyday life of soldiers in 19th century Astrakhan.
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Divo Ostrov
It’s an amusement park with thrill rides that kids will adore and that Disneyland should get its lawyers onto for blatant copying of signs.
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Wall of Peace
Near ul Arbat’s east end, the Wall of Peace is composed of hundreds of individually painted tiles on a theme of international friendship.
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Young Defenders of the Motherland Museum
This small museum tells the tragic stories of the children and teenagers who fought against Facism during the ferocious battles of WWII.
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Zosimy & Savvatiya Church
At the southwestern end of town, this 1819 church has a small collection of local crafts, costumes and icons, plus Saturday recitals.
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Kabardino
The Kabardino-Balkaria National Museum has a good 3D topographical map of the mountains and displays covering the history of the area.
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Intercession Cathedral
This pleasingly small old church dating from 1795 has an interior of unusually glossed and intricately moulded stucco framing haloed saints.
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Drinking Gallery
Opposite Lermontov Gallery is a modern drinking gallery, where you can sample the local mineral water (cups are R4 if you need one).
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Nikolai Rerikh House
Rerikh stayed in this wood house, owned by a respected Old Believer friend, in 1926 at the tail end of his epic five-year Asian expedition.
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War Victory Monument 1941
Memorial consisting of an eternal flame flanked by grim-faced statues of servicemen, honouring the fallen of the Great Patriotic War.
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Memorial Apartment of Andrei Bely
Next door to the Pushkin House-Museum is the Memorial Apartment of Andrei Bely , Silver Age author of the surreal novel Petersburg .
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Arkhiereysky Mansion
The elegant Arkhiereysky Mansion was closed for renovations on our last visit and will eventually be reopened as an Orthodox history museum;
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St Nicholas Church
Listvyanka’s small mid-19th-century timber church is dedicated to St Nicholas, who supposedly saved its merchant sponsor from a Baikal shipwreck.
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Museum of Fine Arts
This branch of the Museum of Fine Arts has a small collection of 20th century Russian avant-garde works and mostly low-key changing exhibitions.
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History of Yaroslavl Museum
This museum is in a lovely 19th-century merchant’s house. A monument to victims of war and repression in the 20th century is in the peaceful garden.
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