Sights in Khabarovsk
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Regional History Museum
The Regional History Museum offers a series of well laid-out halls in an evocative 1894 red-brick building. Highlights are many, particularly a far-better-than-average look into native cultures, a few English captions in the stuffed-animal section, and a full-on panorama of the snowy 1922 civil war battle at Volochaevka. No Gulag coverage, though the nearby prison population was bigger than the city’s in the ’30s. At research time, the museum was busy adding on a second wing as the Amur RiverMuseum, which may require an additional ticket.
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City Park
A pleasant City Park stretches 1.5km downriver (northwards). On the promontory is a cliff-top tower in which a troupe of WWI Austro-Hungarian POW musicians was shot dead for refusing to play the Russian Imperial anthem. It now contains a café, Kafe Utyos. Opposite the tower is a statue of Count Nikolai Muravyov-Amursky.
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Military Museum
The Military Museum is a not uninteresting four-room frenzy of battle-axes, guns, knives, and busts and photos of moustached heroes of past conflicts. Lined up in the back courtyard are army trucks, cannons, tanks and a luxury officers-only rail carriage dating from 1926.
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WWII Memorial
Khabarovsk's bombastic WWII memorial is close to the waterfront and a strip of beach that's very popular with sunbathers on hot days. Nearby there's a string of summertime food stalls, the landing stages for suburban river boats and the new multidomed Church of the Transfiguration.
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Church of Christ's Birth
Church of Christ's Birth Among the few churches that survived the Soviet years is the cute, red, blue, and white Church of Christ's Birth, with a kaleidoscopic interior of coloured glass and icons. Two-hour services are held most days.
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Dinamo Park
Dinamo Park brims with sun and shade seekers in good weather; the ponds on the south side are popular swim-and-splash spots, and there are some small rides and a mechanical bull, of course. Located behind the Theatre of Musical Comedy.
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Komsomolskaya pl
Here you'll find the newly reconstructed Orthodox church Khram Uspenya Bozhey Materi, a replica of one destroyed during communist times, and, on the south side of the square, the headquarters of the Amur Steamship Company.
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Old Parliament Building
The striking Old Parliament Building, became the House of Pioneers (Dom Pionerov) in Soviet times. It now houses a souvenir shop called Tainy Remesla. Stop and admire the graceful architecture that survived the civil war.
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Archaeology Museum
The highlights of the small Archaeology Museum are the reproductions and diagrams of the wide-eyed figures found at the ancient Sikachi-Alyan petroglyphs.
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Far Eastern State Research Library
The Far Eastern State Research Library, with its intricate red-and-black brick façade, was built from 1900 to 1902.
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Museum of History of the Far Eastern Railway
The small Museum of History of the Far Eastern Railway has plenty of photos and models.
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Far Eastern Art Museum
Lots of religious icons, Japanese porcelain and 19th-century Russian paintings.
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Amur Fish Aquarium
This new aquarium gives props to the gilled friends from the nearby Amur.
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