Sights in Eastern Bam
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BAM Museum
The BAM Museum, a couple of blocks southwest of the Orthodox cathedral (Sobor Svyatoy Troitsy), covers native Evenki culture, WWII, local art and regional wildlife, but is known for its four rooms of BAM relics and photos (no English). Two rooms cover the railway’s early years and the Gulag prisoners who built it. Look for the photo of sci-fi author Ivan Efremov, who secretly wrote while in the Gulag.
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Municipal Museum of Regional Studies
Worth it even if you can’t read Russian, the well-arranged Municipal Museum of Regional Studies has several rooms filled with old photos and knick-knacks showing how Komsomolsk rose from the tent camps of original pioneers in 1932 to an industrial Soviet city. One exhibit triumphs the Soviet devushki (young women) who followed the calls for women out to this all-male city in 1937.
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Fine Art Museum
The ladies running the Fine Art Museum will be eager to help you appreciate the two floors of changing exhibits, often modest works by regional artists. One recent exhibit we saw was of Khabarovsk-based artist Nikolai Dolbilkin, who made many of the wonderful Soviet mosaics around town when he lived here in the ’50s and ’60s.
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WWII mosaic
In the central grey building at Sudostroitel Park you’ll see Dolbilkin’s WWII mosaic celebrating the end of the war; his relief Nauka mosaic is at the Polytechnical Institute on pr Lenina, a block east of Hotel Voskhod.
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Japanese POW memorial
It's a long shot, but you could ask Nata Tour about (rare) visits of the Yury Gagarin Aircraft Factory east of the centre. Look around for Soviet mosaics beside housing blocks on back streets. There's a simple Japanese POW memorial, off pr Mira.
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WWII memorial
Just northwest of the river station, Komsomolsk's landmark sight is the WWII memorial, which features stoic faces chipped from stone, with pillars marking the years of WWII nearby.
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Regional Museum
For more on local history, visit the simple Regional Museum, which includes exhibits on locals sent to the Gulag in 1937–38.
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beach
If things seem quiet on a sunny day, probably half of town's at the beach, just east of the river station.
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