Originally called the Kiev City Museum of Antiques and Art, the National Art Museum of Ukraine (the Museum, for short) was opened in 1899.
First, the Museum collections were replenished by Kiev sponsors. After the 1917 Russian Revolution, private collections were nationalized. And later, the Government granted allocations for purchasing works of...
In 1987, on the first anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, an exposition of photographs "To the Memory of Courage and Honour" was held in Kiev. It was arranged by those who eliminated the damages caused by the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the Fire Department officers of the Directorate of Internal Affairs of the Kiev Region. The...
In the very first day of the Great Patriotic War (a part of the Second World War; started when Nazi Germany invaded the USSR in 1941), Kiev virtually became a front-line city, having suffered bombardment by the Luftwaffe. 197 large industrial enterprises, 32 higher and secondary educational institutions, research institutes, and over 335,000 inhabi...
The National Museum of the History of Ukraine (the Museum, for short) was established in the beginning of 1899 with an exposition of an archaeological exhibition in the City Museum of Antiquity and Art.
The Museum was officially opened in 1904. The exposition comprised collections of excavations belonging to founders of the Museum and many other...
The fate of the building is amazing: built in 1888 in the very centre of Moscow, it hosted the first city power plant for only a short period of time and after that it was "forgotten".
The new reincarnation of the building, as an exhibition hall, is full of different kind of events.
In the late 19th century, Moscow was a mix of antiquity and ...
After the Novodevichy Convent was closed in 1922, a museum was opened inside its walls, which then became a branch of the State Historical Museum in 1934. The museum's collection was formed during the 1920s and 1930s and included the abundant sacristy of the Convent and a unique historical and architectural ensemble of items from the 16th–17th cent...
The Moscow Sea Aquarium (the Aquarium, for short) is an oceanarium and a shop situated in Chistoprudny Boulevard (or Clean Ponds Boulevard). Fish, sea urchins, starfish and other inhabitants of the seas and oceans arrive at the Aquarium from different corners of the world. Hundreds of fish species are demonstrated and sold here.
At the Aquarium,...
The October Railway Central Museum (the Museum, for short) was established in 1978. The Museum introduces the evolution history of the St. Petersburg transport hub and railway system of the North-West with over 30 roads including Tzarskoselskaya, Peterburgo-Moskovskaya, Peterburgo-Varshavskaya, Baltiyskaya, Finlyandskaya, Moskovsko-Vindavo-Rybinska...
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