Sightseeings of Khabarovsk

The main natural landmark of the Far East is the most important water transport artery - the Amur River, on the banks of which the city of Khabarovsk is located.

Favorite place of rest for Khabarovsk residents and guests of the city is the central square, which can be considered a unique complex of architecture. Among the green grove on an area of about eight thousand square meters housed one main fountain and eight small, various types of lamps and at least a thousand hydraulic devices.

The sights of Khabarovsk include several churches.

Innokentievskaya church. The history of its construction is connected with the first settlers, who, having landed on the bank of the Amur, built a small chapel made of wood. In the seventies of the nineteenth century a wooden church was erected in a place called the Military Mountain, which was given the name of Innokentievskaya in honor of the first Irkutsk bishop, patron of the Far East and Siberia, St. Innocent. Wooden The church in 1898 replaced the stone one. At the time of Bolshevik rule, it was adapted to the economic premises, like many other churches in Russia. In the nineties of the twentieth century, it was returned to the faithful, more precisely, they returned what remained of the church. Restoration was carried out on old photos

The Assumption Cathedral is the face of the city. Sights like this, perhaps, more in the city you will not meet. Built in the medieval Pskov-Novgorod style by the Khabarovsk architect Yuri Viktorovich Podlesny, the cathedral is a real decoration of the city's architecture. The temple reaches forty meters in height and has one chapel dedicated to the early Christian Martyr Tatian and two more lateral. The cathedral is located in the forest park area near one of the largest universities in Khabarovsk. In the two thousandth years of our century the temple began to rebuild after the devastation in the thirtieth year of the last century, and now the Assumption Cathedral shines with its domes

Sights of Khabarovsk include the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral - the highest Orthodox building in the Far East. The height of the temple is eighty three meters. The first stone was laid in the early 2000s of this century. The cathedral has five domes and was built on the donations of the population of Khabarovsk Krai and on the means of various local commercial organizations. The upper hall of the temple is designed for two thousand people, the lower one seats fifteen hundred. The cathedral is located on the high bank of the Amur River.

In addition to Christian monuments has Khabarovsk attractions and quite secular, for example:

- Muravyov-Amursky Park. It is remarkable for the monument to the Governor-General of Eastern Siberia.

- Park "Dynamo".

- Children's entertainment center "Harlequin".

- City Park of Culture and Rest. Y. Gagarin.

- The first stationary circus in Khabarovsk.

The sights of Khabarovsk include several monuments:

- Monument to Erofei Khabarov. Created by the centenary of the city, located on the station square.

- The monument to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin - a work of art of the early twentieth century;

- Memorial with eternal fire, created in honor of those who did not return from the Great Patriotic War.

- "Black Tulip" - a monument to the dead soldiers-internationalists.

Attractions of Khabarovsk number at least a dozen different monuments and memorials, as well as many museums.

The museums of Khabarovsk are an art, archaeological, historical, military-historical , local history and fish museum of the Amur River.

For example, the museum of local lore represents a scarecrow of the Amur tiger and the skeleton of a sea cow, while the art museum owns original works of masters from the Renaissance period. In the exhibition halls of the museums of Khabarovsk you can get acquainted with many interesting expositions.