Museum sights in Kharkiv
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Kharkiv Art Museum
Kharkiv's most famous museum owns one of many versions of Ilya Repin's Zaporizhsky Cossacks Writing a Letter to the Turkish Sultan, which is found in a room full of Repin paintings in the museum's permanent collection. The entire collection of romantic paintings here is of a high standard for Ukraine but the neighbouring exhibit hall is hit-or-miss. The museum also curates the little-known Parkhomivka History & Arts Museum.
While you're here check out the former KGB building a block west of the museum. Now the Department for Internal Affairs, it has a bust of Felyx Edmundovych, a high-ranking KGB member, on one wall.
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Kharkiv History Museum
You can’t miss the large granite sculptural ensemble commemorating Kharkiv’s designation as the first capital of Soviet Ukraine on 24 December 1917. Nearby are several anti-aircraft guns and tanks. These are associated with the Kharkiv History Museum, which occupies the big red-brick building. This has an OK guns exhibit for WWII buffs but can otherwise be skipped.
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