Sights in Kyzyl
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centre-of-Asia monument
If you take a map of Europe, cut out Asia and balance the continent on a pin, the pinprick will be Kyzyl. Well, only if you've used the utterly obscure Gall's stereographic projection. However, that doesn't stop the town perpetuating the 'Centre of Asia' idea first posited by a mysterious 19th-century English eccentric and still marked with a concrete globe-and-obelisk centre-of-Asia monument on the riverbank, at the end of Komsomolskaya ul.
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Aldan Maadyr National Museum
The Aldan Maadyr National Museum finally moved into its new state-of-the-art home in 2008. As well as the old museum’s array of stuffed animals, 6th to 12th century stone figures, and banknotes, stamps and photos from the 1930s independence period, the 16 halls also house freshly installed exhibitions on throat singing, European art and Tuvan shamanism.
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Tsechenling Datsan
Two blocks east stands the white pagoda-style Buddhist temple Tsechenling Datsan Brightly-coloured prayer flags flutter in the breeze outside but it’s disappointingly plain inside.
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National Theatre
The distinctive white concrete National Theatre slightly oriental wooden flourishes make it the city’s most architecturally distinctive building.
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Museum of Oppression
A tiny Museum of Oppression has moving, dog-eared, copied photos of those who disappeared in the Stalin years.
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