Saviour’s Cathedral


This elegant 1803 church is across the square from the superb Martyanov Museum.


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1. Martyanov Museum

0.08 MILES

Filling three distinct buildings, the countless halls crammed with local taxidermy, Bronze and Iron Age finds, Tuvan and Khakass standing stones,…

2. Decembrist Museum

0.41 MILES

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.

3. Krzyzanovsky & Starkov Flat Museum

0.5 MILES

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…

4. Khakassia National Museum

10.21 MILES

The highlight at the National Museum is the atmospherically low-lit hall containing a striking exhibition dedicated to Khakassia’s wealth of standing…

5. Railway Museum

10.23 MILES

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,…

6. Peter & Paul Church

28.32 MILES

In 1898 Lenin was married in Shushenskoe’s Peter & Paul Church, much to his later embarrassment.

7. Shushenskoe Ethnographic Museum

28.35 MILES

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’…