Sights in Astrakhan
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Velimir Khlebnikov Museum
The Velimir Khlebnikov Museum is dedicated to a futurist poet who – together with Mayakovsky and the gang – issued a manifesto urging fellow writers ‘to throw Pushkin out of the steamship of modernity’ and tell Dostoyevsky the news. The museum is located in a flat where his biologist father moved when he founded what is now the Astrakhan Biosphere Reserve.
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Nikolsky Gate
Buildings inside the large 16th-century fortress on top of Zayachy Hill, including the Nikolsky Gate in the north wall, house rather mundane cultural and historical exhibits. The most interesting is in the Red Gate, in the kremlin's western corner, which also provides a panoramic view of city and river. The Ethnographic Museum is also on the grounds of the kremlin.
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Ethnographic Museum
Buildings inside the large 16th-century fortress on top of Zayachy Hill, including the Nikolsky Gate in the north wall, house rather mundane cultural and historical exhibits. The most interesting is in the Red Gate, in the kremlin's western corner, which also provides a panoramic view of city and river. The Ethnographic Museum is also on the grounds of the kremlin.
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Red Gate
Buildings inside the large 16th-century fortress on top of Zayachy Hill, including the Nikolsky Gate in the north wall, house rather mundane cultural and historical exhibits. The most interesting is in the Red Gate, in the kremlin's western corner, which also provides a panoramic view of city and river. The Ethnographic Museum is also on the grounds of the kremlin.
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Assumption Cathedral
Inside the large 16th-century fortress on top of Zayachy Hill, the main churches are the magnificent Assumption Cathedral (1698-1710) and the lovely but fading 18th-century Trinity Cathedral. At the time of research, only Kirillov Chapel (Kremlin) was open for visitors.
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Kirillov Chapel
Inside the large 16th-century fortress on top of Zayachy Hill, the main churches are the magnificent Assumption Cathedral (1698-1710) and the lovely but fading 18th-century Trinity Cathedral. At the time of research, only Kirillov Chapel was open for visitors.
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Trinity Cathedral
Inside the large 16th-century fortress on top of Zayachy Hill, the main churches are the magnificent Assumption Cathedral (1698-1710) and the lovely but fading 18th-century Trinity Cathedral. At the time of research, only Kirillov Chapel was open for visitors.
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Dogadin Art Gallery
The Dogadin Art Gallery has one of the best art collections outside Russia’s capital cities. Check out the works of Astrakhan-born Boris Kustodiev, who painted lushly coloured semi-folkloric scenes of merchants’ life.
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Red Mosque
This area of former Tatar and Persian sloboda south of the May 1st Canal is still predominantly Muslim, which is reflected in the proliferation of mosques, such as the city’s oldest Red Mosque.
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Prechistenskie Belfry Gate
The large 16th-century fortress on top of Zayachy Hill is a peaceful green haven in what can be a hot, dusty city. Enter through the main, eastern Prechistenskie Belfry Gate (1908-12), with its impressive bell tower.
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Black Mosque
The Black Mosque was erected by Bukhara merchants in 1816 and destroyed by the Bolsheviks in 1939; it is currently being rebuilt from the remaining ruins.
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Shatrovaya Tower
Near the History and Architecture Museum, Shatrovaya Tower is all that remains of the 16th-century Saviour-Transfiguration Monastery (Spaso-preobrazhensky monastyr).
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History and Architecture Museum
The History and Architecture Museum holds special exhibitions on local palaeontology and archaeology, featuring treasures excavated from around the region.
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Ioann Zlatoust Church
Kriushi is also the location of the beautifully restored Ioann Zlatoust church, dating from 1763.
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St Ripsime Armenian church
Kriushi is the location of beautifully restored St Ripsime Armenian church.
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German Lutheran church
Kriushi is the location of beautifully restored German Lutheran church.
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