The Museum of the Defense of Brest Fortress was opened on 8 November 1956, in the surviving part of the defensive barrack in the central fortification of the Fortress, the Citadel. Captain A. A. Krupennikov was appointed to manage the Museum.
The Museum was based on an earlier museum room that was opened on 23 February 1956 on the ground floor o...
Dnepropetrovsk Zoo or zoozone, as the locals call it, is a part of Shevchenko Park. The Park is divided into two parts. The part of the Zoo is situated at Monastirsky Island. It takes just five minutes to go by foot from the beginning of the Island to the Zoo.
Dnepropetrovsk Zoo was opened in 1972. The Zoo is quite small and has just about 40 sp...
The Feodosiya Museum of Regional Studies (or the Museum of Antiques; the Museum, for short) was founded on 13th May 1811 by Semyon Bronevsky, a mayor of Feodosiya.
The Museum is one of Ukraine's oldest city museums and one of Europe's oldest museums.
A museum was needed, because a large number of antiques had been amassed in Feodosia by that ...
This is one of the most famous out of 500 mineralogical museums in the world. Its main collections include more than 135,000 items from all over the globe. Natural crystals and other kinds of minerals, articles made of stones by old and modern masters, gemstones, meteorites, and many other items.
It was founded as a mineral cabinet of the Kunstk...
The Battle of Kursk — Belgorod Direction Museum-Diorama was opened on 4th July 1987.
Its diorama, the largest in Russia, is dedicated to the Battle of Prokhorovka (12th July 1943), which is one of the largest tank battles in the military history. The area, length and height of the canvas is around 1,005 m2 (10,800 sq. ft), around 67 m (220 ft) a...
A monumental building, finished with limestone, mined in the quarry of town of Pudost, lifts its head in the highest point of a hill on the shores of the Serebryanoye Lake (literally Silver Lake) in Gatchina. The imperial palace is the only "castle palace" in the suburbs of Saint Petersburg.
But despite the fact that the appearance of the Palace...
The Gerd National Museum of the Udmurt Republic (the Museum, for short) is a scientific, research, cultural, educational, and methodological center of the Udmurt Republic as well as the largest storage of monuments of material and spiritual culture of all peoples inhabiting the region.
The Museum was opened in 1920. In 1926, Kuzebay Gerd, the et...
The Glade of Fairy Tales Museum was founded in 1960 by Pavel Bezrukov.
This is a unique open-air museum, a magic world of fairy tales. It features over 200 sculptures made of wood, stone, copper, and other materials. The entrance to the fairy-tale city is guarded by Pushkin's Thirty Goodly Knights with spears and shields. Further, visitors are m...
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