BiyskSights

Sights in Biysk

  1. Firsova Ex-Department Store

    From the market near the bus station take northbound bus 23 to see the tumbledown patches of once-impressive old town, which hide intriguingly behind a vast, unprepossessing curtain of Soviet-era concrete.The once-mighty, now decrepit Firsova ex-Department Store has crown-shaped corner domes.

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  2. Museum

    The excellent museum, housed in a grand, if dilapidated, 1912 merchant’s house has original art nouveau fittings.

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  3. Assumption Church

    Backtrack along Sovetskaya ul where there are several 1890s brick edifices like the silver-domed Assumption Church.

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