Dnieper River · Ukraine · Kiev
The National Museum of Natural History at the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences (the Museum, for short) is one of the world's largest museums of its kind. It was created in 1966 as a joint exhibition complex consisting of several museums: the Museum of Geology, the Museum of Palaeontology, the Museum of Zoology, the Museum of Botany and the Mu...
Russia · Moscow
Vernadsky State Geological Museum is the oldest Russian scientific, educational and cultural centre dedicated to Earth sciences. The Museum is situated in the centre of Moscow, in a historical building designed by architect Roman Klein and constructed in 1918.
The Museum originated from the Mineralogical Office of the Imperial Moscow University,...
Black Sea · Ukraine · Alupka
The Vorontsovsky Palace lies at the bottom of Ay-Petri Mountain. It is made of diabase mined near the site.
The Vorontsovsky Palace had been built (if compared with classicism) according to new architectural and construction principles in the spirit of English architecture. Notably, the Palace has elements from different eras.
The elements ar...
Baltic Sea · Russia · Vyborg
Vyborg Castle (the Castle, for short) is the oldest of the Vyborg fortifications, which date back to the 13th century. The Castle was built on a small (170 meters by 122 meters or 560 feet by 400 feet) island in the Bay of Vyborg. It is the only completely preserved monument of Western European medieval military architecture.
The Castle was foun...
Europe · Poland · Krakow
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Russia · Yekaterinburg
The Yekaterinburg Zoo (the Zoo, for short) was founded in 1930.
The first collection had only 60 animals. Today there are more than 1,000 animals and over 300 species in the Zoo. Five pavilions for warm-requiring animals are situated in the Zoo area including pavilions for birds, warm-requiring predators, monkeys, elephant, and Exoterrarium. Ani...
Baltic Sea · Russia · Saint Petersburg
The ensemble of the Yusupov Palace — one of few surviving urban manors in St. Petersburg — took almost two hundred years to build. Like other manor ensembles situated in the city's historic centre, it was associated with the lives of many prominent Petersburgers of the past. That is, there was a "pre-Yusupov period" in its life history, which laste...
Russia · Moscow
The Zoological Museum of Moscow University is the oldest and largest Moscow museum, where visitors can learn about diversity of animal species of our planet, while professional zoologists can find the richest research collections. It started its history in 1791 as a Cabinet of the Natural History at Moscow University, where animals and plants, mine...
Baltic Sea · Russia · Saint Petersburg
The Museum of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences is one of the oldest museums in Russia. History of the museum is connected with the Kunstkamera, the first Russian museum established by Peter the Great in 1714.
In 1832, the independent Zoological Museum of the Imperial Academy of Sciences appeared on the basis of zoologi...