Take bus 50 or 50A to this animal-friendly zoo near the Bobrovy Log Ski Resort to see numerous Siberian species.
Roev Ruchey Zoo
Krasnoyarsk
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7.18 MILES
Permanently docked below Ploshchad Mira art centre is the SV Nikolai, the ship that transported future revolution leader Vladimir Lenin to exile in…
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5.78 MILES
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4. Viktor Astafyev House-Museum
6.23 MILES
The house-museum of famous local writer Victor Astafiev, who died in 2001.
6.36 MILES
Housed in an incongruously attractive 1912 art nouveau Egyptian temple, this is one of Siberia’s better museums. Arranged around a Cossack explorer’s ship…
6.42 MILES
This interesting museum housed in a cottage-compound gives a taste of rural Siberian life.
6.58 MILES
Occupying a glorious 1911 merchant’s mansion, this wonderfully restored museum highlights various aspects of Siberian life that inspired authors who wrote…