Sights in Krasnoyarsk Region
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Stolby Nature Reserve
Arguably Krasnoyarsk's greatest attractions are the spiky volcanic rock pillars called stolby. These litter the woods in the 17,000-hectare Stolby Nature Reserve south of the Yenisey River. To reach the main concentration of pillars, start by walking 7km down a track near Turbaza Yenisey. Alternatively, there is much easier access via a long chair lift from beside Kafe Bobrovyylog (ul Sibirskaya).
This usually runs year-round on request, but was closed throughout 2005 during a massive ski-slope redevelopment. From the top of the chair lift, walk for two minutes to a great viewpoint or around 40 minutes to reach the impressive Takmak Stolby. Infected ticks are dangerous be…
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Regional Museum
The Regional Museum is one of Siberia’s best. Its wonderfully incongruous 1912 building combines art nouveau and Egyptian temple-style features. Arranged around a Cossack explorer’s ship are models, icons, historical room interiors and nature rooms where you can listen to local birdsong and animal cries. The basement hosts a splendid ethnographic section comparing the historical fashion sense of shamans from various tribal groups. The gift shop sells old coins, medals, postcards and excellent maps.
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Chasovnya
For great city views climb Karaulnaya Hill to the pointy little Chasovnya which features on the Russian 10-rouble banknote. At midday there’s a deafening one-gun salute here.
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Surikov Museum-Estate
The Surikov Museum-Estate preserves the house, sheds and vegetable patch of 19th-century painter Vasily Surikov (1848–1916). The heavy-gated garden forms a refreshing oasis of rural Siberia right in the city centre.
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Lenin House
In April 1897 the goateed wonder stayed in Krasnoyarsk at ul Markovskogo 27. Lenin House is now preserved and surveyed by a pensive, replinthed statue. A big, much prouder, Lenin statue stands opposite the popular city park.
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Museum
A fascinating little museum at the Victory Memorial relates Krasnoyarsk’s role in WWII, when much Soviet industry was strategically shifted east away from potential bomber raids.
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SV Nikolay
Permanently docked below an ugly brown-concrete exhibition centre (formerly the Lenin Museum) is the boat SV Nikolay which transported Vladimir to exile in Shushenskoe.
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Resurrection Church
The top-heavy but elegant 1804–22 Resurrection Church was decapitated in the 1930s but given a new tower in 1998–99. Its icon-filled interior billows with incense.
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Roev Ruchey Zoo
Nearby, the relatively humane Roev Ruchey Zoo is home to numerous Siberian species rare and not so rare, along with happily humping camels. Take bus 50 or 50A.
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Last Bow Museum
Directly opposite in Astafiev’s grandma’s cottage compound is the Last Bow Museum, giving a taste of rural Siberian life.
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Literature Museum
The Literature Museum within a glorious 1911 merchant’s mansion occasionally hosts classical music performances.
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Mosaic
Other communist curiosities include a splendid mosaic on the outer wall of the station square post.
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St Inokent Chapel
Ovsyanka’s cute, though new, wooden St Inokent Chapel is a 100m walk from the main road.
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Intercession Cathedral
Attractive old churches abound like the fancy 1795 Intercession Cathedral.
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Surikov Art Museum
More of Surikov’s work is on show at the cute Surikov Art Museum.
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Felix Dzerzhinsky
Communist curiosities include a bust of proto-KGB founder Felix Dzerzhinsky.
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