Things to do in Biysk
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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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Kavkazskaya Kukhnya
Understandably Biysk’s most popular dinner spot, with reasonable prices, huge portions, cheap Russian beer and the best shashlyk in town. It is near the glistening Sberbank building.
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Bars Travel
Runs various Altai tours for Russian groups with three-day hiking trips (R4685 including food, transport and two nights’ accommodation) departing most Fridays.
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Mu-Mu
Biysk’s own version of the popular Moscow chain of cafés, Mu-Mu offers mounds of pancakes, pelmeni, and fried potatoes for hard-to-beat prices.
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Kafe Randevu
Behind a beautifully renovated old-town facade, this midrange café has the most convivial atmosphere of three options on Sovetskaya ul.
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Museum
The excellent museum, housed in a grand, if dilapidated, 1912 merchant’s house has original art nouveau fittings.
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Assumption Church
Backtrack along Sovetskaya ul where there are several 1890s brick edifices like the silver-domed Assumption Church.
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Kalinka
Appealing wood-interior café within a shop, diagonally opposite the Hotel Tsentralnaya. Good-value meals but pricey beer.
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Theatre
Just past the gardens, on the right, is the grandly colonnaded main theatre.
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Dobry
There's a bookshop for maps and postcards within this multishop.
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