Thirty years after the victory over Nazi Germany grateful ancestors "resurrected" the 411th Soviet artillery battery by constructing the Memorial Complex of the Heroic Defence of Odessa (the Memorial, for short) at the location of the battery. In February 1975, war and labour veterans of Odessa published a call to construct a memorial in the Evenin...
The Museum of the History of Galich (the Museum, for short) is the first museum of Galich Town. It is housed by Mitropolitan Hall, an interesting sample of the 18th century architecture.
The Museum was conceived by Yaroslav Pasternak, a professor at Lviv University and D.Sc. in Archaeology, and by Metropolitan Andrey Sheptitsy; the latter, being...
On 21st November 2001, the day of St. Michael the Archangel, the protector of Kiev, the Museum of the History of St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery (the Museum, for short; the Monastery, for short) was solemnly opened; the Monastery existed from 1108 to 1936 and was re-established in 1998 and is one of the most significant Ukraine's architectural...
The exhibitions of the Museum of the Karaites History and Culture (the Museum, for short) introduce visitors to religious and cultural traditions of the Karaites as well as to public and private, everyday life of the Galich Karaites community.
The Karaites are a small ethnic group. Debates about the origin of the Karaites are still underway even...
The first owners of the Kuzminki estate were G. D. Stroganov and his descendents. In 1722, they were granted the title of Baron.
The Stroganov family was known since the 14th century. During the reign of Tsar Ivan the Terrible the Stroganovs were granted vast lands in the Transural Region, and the rights to build towns with fortifications and ar...
The Museum of Water (the Museum, for short) through its expositions tells everything about the water and sewage facilities and services of Moscow. The Museum is situated in the ancient Moscow district of Krutitsy, at the premises of a building that from 18th July, 1898, used to host the Moscow Main Sewage Pumping Station. The building was construct...
On 24th May 2003, the opening ceremony of the Museum of Water (the Museum, for short) took place; the Museum was created on the basis of renovated ancient water towers constructed as early as in 1872–1876.
Now, it is a kind of a "research laboratory", where the main attention is directed at new approaches to ecology-related issues, experiments a...
The Museum of Wooden Architecture and Peasant Life (the Museum, for short) spread out on the right, high bank of the Kamenka River. In old times, its location was occupied by St. Dmitry's Monastery founded in the 11th century by a monk of the Kievo-Pecherskaya Lavra, Yefrem. The ensemble of this open-air museum consists of 18th and 19th century woo...
Viacheslav Chornovil, a Hero of Ukraine, would be 65 years old on 24th December, 2002. This day, a museum was opened in his study situated in the building of People's Movement of Ukraine. The Museum has documents, photographs and personal things of the prominent journalist, politician, and fighter for independence of Ukraine.
The Museum expositi...