Sights in Barnaul
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FSB Headquarters
The FSB headquarters is worth a peek. The bearded dude in the courtyard is Felix Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the Cheka, forerunners to the KGB and the current day FSB. A much larger monument to Iron Felix was torn down in Moscow as the USSR collapsed in 1991, and he is a very uncommon face indeed in modern Russia. Be sure to check out the large Soviet-era ‘Workers Unite!’ mural to Felix’s left. Taking photos of the FSB HQ is not advised.
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Altai Arts, Literature &Culture Museum
The impressively eclectic Altai Arts, Literature &Culture Museum occupies a restored, furnished 1850s mansion in which piano recitals are held on Saturday afternoons. There are some fine icons, Rerikh sketches, and even the inevitable WWII room is imaginatively handled through cartoons and theatre posters.
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Imperator
Rapacious redevelopment has destroyed much of Barnaul's older architecture. Nonetheless, century-old remnants are dotted between the shopping malls of pr Lenina's tree-shaded southern end. A few splendid wooden-lace houses include the famous Imperator, now a nightclub, plus ul Korolenko 96 and ul Polzunova 31 and 48.
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obelisk
Classical pl Demidov was once exaggeratedly dubbed a 'slice of St Petersburg'. Now the slice is itself sliced in half by the tram tracks of Krasnoarmeysky pr and is hardly memorable, apart from the 1825 obelisk which is still faintly bullet-pocked from a 1918 skirmish.
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Regional Museum
Founded in 1823, the reasonably interesting Regional Museum is Siberia’s oldest museum. Top exhibits include intriguing models of various 18th-century industrial processes.
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War History Museum
In an old brick house, the War History Museum is simple and all in Russian but the moving understatement of its Afghanistan and Chechnya memorials is particularly affecting.
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Pokrovsky
The bulbous-domed, brick Pokrovsky is the most appealing of the city’s many churches with a fine, gilded interior.
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Pokrovskoe Cathedral
The bulbous-domed, brick Pokrovskoe is the most appealing of the city's many churches with a fine, gilded interior.
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Altai Fine Art Museum
The Altai Fine Art Museum is the best of several galleries in this very cultured city.
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