Lenin's friend Gleb Krzyzanovski moved into this flat as an exiled revolutionary in 1898. It was here that he started developing an interest in electric power, which decades later resulted in a series of gigantic Soviet hydroelectric projects, such as Sayano-Shushenskaya dam.
Krzyzanovsky & Starkov Flat Museum
Eastern Siberia
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Earlier exiles are the theme of the Decembrist Museum in a hard-to-find location one block west from the church and three blocks north along ul Oborony.
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In 1898 Lenin was married in Shushenskoe’s Peter & Paul Church, much to his later embarrassment.
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Filling three distinct buildings, the countless halls crammed with local taxidermy, Bronze and Iron Age finds, Tuvan and Khakass standing stones,…
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This elegant 1803 church is across the square from the superb Martyanov Museum.
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Earlier exiles are the theme of the Decembrist Museum in a hard-to-find location one block west from the church and three blocks north along ul Oborony.
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The highlight at the National Museum is the atmospherically low-lit hall containing a striking exhibition dedicated to Khakassia’s wealth of standing…
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Worth visiting just to experience a Siberian attraction that doesn’t charge admission. Train buffs will find the scale model of Abakan station in 1925,…
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In 1898 Lenin was married in Shushenskoe’s Peter & Paul Church, much to his later embarrassment.
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For the 1970 centenary of Lenin’s birth, a two-block area of the village centre was reconstructed to look as it had in 1870. These well-kept ‘old’…