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Charles Gascoigne is considered to be the founder of the city.
He was appointed the first director of the iron foundry from which the city sprang.
He was its director from 1795 till 1806.
You can see a medal in his honor at the city history and culture museum (on the picture) and read about his life and work at one of the exhibits of the museum in Karl Marx Street (former Kazan Street).
It is interesting to note that many streets in Old Russia were called after Kazan, the Tatar capital, to commemorate the historic Russian victory in the centuries-old struggle between the Tatars and the Russians. Leave a Comment Address: Marx StreetDirections: On the way to Lenin Street from downtown, down from Red Square.
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The City History Museum in Marx Street is known for its numerous exhibitions that often take place there.
This picture was taken in the former Lord Mayor's reception room and I was kindly allowed to sit at his table.
The exhibitions shows some old artifacts and gives you an insight into the past of the city streets, institutions, etc. Leave a Comment Address: Marx StreetDirections: Opposite Image store &cafeteria.
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This park located in Stone Ford District on the right bank of the Luhanka at the northern entrance to the city has long been a favorite attraction in Luhansk, especially for kids.
There are several merry-go-rounds, a 25-meter-high Ferris wheel, several cafes and a small zoo here.
The attractions are rather expensive, at least by our local standards.
The park opens on May Day, May 1, and attracts a lot of people every year.
There is a disco zone, a favorite meeting point of lots of young people from Stone Ford in summer. Leave a Comment Address: 64 Karl Liebknecht StreetPhone: 52 34 18Directions: accross the railway line from October hotel in Pushkin Street
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The concert hall in Red Square building (College of Arts) has the best acoustics in the city!
The hall has been completely renovated and now looks even better than it used to in Communist times. Leave a Comment Address: Red SquareDirections: Down from Young Guards Park to the Old Town
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Why not visit the museum of local lore?
In front of it you can see the monument to Charles Gascoigne, a Scottish engineer, the first director of the first town factory, who is considered to be the founder of the city.
You can see several exhibitions on the floors of the museum, among them is the region's nature exhibition, city history exhibition and others.
You can also take pictures of the museum exhibits, if you pay $1 for taking one picture or 1 UAH for each picture of you with the exhibit in the background.
Local lore museum2 Shevchenko Street
Tel. 55 17 43
This is the main museum of the entire Luhansk region.
It is open from 9 a.m. till 5 p.m., closed on Mondays and Tuesdays.You can see traveling exhibitions such as “The Romanovs” from the Wax Figures museum in from St.Petersburg;
Everyday exhibitions:
- Nature of Luhansk region;
- Our region in ancient times;
- Traditional households and occupations of people in Luhansk region;
- Luhansk region in the twenties, thirties and forties;
- Our region in the years of the Great Patriotic War (WWII);
- Luhansk region in the fifties, sixties and seventies;
- Luhansk region at the turn of the 21st century;
- Oceanographic stuff displays;
- The 19th century life in Luhansk;
- Our place in Ukraine;
- “Nature of Luhansk region” (photo exhibition of a local professional photographer).Pictures from the local lore museum Leave a Comment Address: Shevchenko StreetDirections: Next to "Babylon" bowling club
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Luhansk Zoo is located in May Day Park opposite the Ferris wheel and is open from 9.30 a.m. till 8 p.m. (in summer) and till 3 or 4 p.m. in winter time. The entrance fee is 10 UAH ($2) for adults.
You can see different animals and birds there: brown bears, a Canadian wolf, ordinary steppe wolves, raccoons, raccoon dogs, polar foxes, steppe marmots, moufflons, Cameroon goats, squirrels, Scottish ponies, monkeys; pheasants (golden, silver and ordinary ones), mountain geese, falcons, black ravens, parrots and singing birds. Leave a Comment Address: Karl Liebknecht Street, May Day ParkDirections: Opposite the Ferris wheel on the bank of the river
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Vyacheslav Titov's Apartment Museum
This museum is dedicated to the Soviet writer Vyacheslav Titov. He used to work as a coalminer, but was severely injured during an accident in the coalmine. Saving his coworkers he lost both his arms. He wrote stories and a novel called “In Spite of All Deaths”.
The museum is in an apartment house close to West Circle on the way to the West End.:
Apt.62, 18 Gayevoy Block.
It is open from 9 a.m. till 5 p.m. except Sundays and Mondays.
The museum exhibition is called
“Life and creative activities of V.A.Titov”
Vladimir Dahl's House Museum
12 Dahl Street
Tel. 52 41 55
The museum is open from 9 a.m. till 4 p.m.
The last Friday of the month is a sanitary day.
City history and culture museum
(on the pictures here)
The museum is in the Old Town at 30 Karl Marx Street.
This old two-storey building used to house the city council before 1917.
Tel. 52 05 92 Leave a Comment Address: Marx StreetPhone: 52 05 92Directions: Old Town
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"A monument a year!" - this is what our mayor said about the necessity to erect monuments in Luhansk.
In 2007 a new monument was dedicated in our city: the monument to Mikhail Matussovsky, a famous Soviet poet, the author of many well-known Soviet songs, who was born in Luhansk in 1915. It stands in Red Square at the building of the Institute of Culture.
In 2008 a new monument was dedicated in Luhansk.
This monument is officially called Caster Monument - and it is dedicated to the iron foundry workers who cast cannons and other products at Luhansk iron foundry at the beginning of the 19th century.
The monument was created by a local sculptor Vladimir Mozhayev.
Unlike all other monuments it was dedicated twice.
For the first time it was dedicated in September 1995 when the bicentenary of Luhansk was observed. It was placed in the main square of Luhansk machine-building factory and was inaccessible to the wide public.
In 2008 the monument was taken off its pedestal at the factory yard and brought to the city council building. It was dedicated on September 19, 2008. The memorial plaque attached to its pedestal quotes the decree of Emperor Alexander III on elevating Luhansk factory settlement into the status of a district town. That event took place on September 3, 1882. Leave a Comment Address: 14 Kotsiubinsky StreetDirections: Turn from the main street at Dinamo business center and walk along Lermontov Street towards a huge apartment house in Kotsiubinsky Street. It is opposite Vooshilov monument.
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Many Ukrainian cities are proud to have a monument to the Bard of Ukraine, Taras Shevchenko (1814-1861). He was a writer, a poet, an artist and a fighter for independent Ukraine.
Our monument was was dedicated in June 1998.
Luhansk was one of the last Ukrainian cities to erect this monument.
Many different shows and concerts are usually held in front of this monument.Taras Shevchenko, a famous Ukrainian national poet, lived in the 1800s. In his literary works he struggled for the liberation of Ukraine from the rule of tsarist Russia.
All Ukrainians love and respect Taras Shevchenko just like the Scottish people love Robert Burnes whose fate is in a certain way similar to that of Shevchenko. He was sentenced to ten years in prison for inspiring revolutionary ideals. Leave a Comment Address: Heroes Square facing Sovetskaya Street.Directions: Sovietskaya Street opposite the Heroes Obelisk
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There are dozens of attractions in Luhansk: squares, monuments and memorial places.
Depending on what you would like to see here, you will find several interesting and nice places.
Here are ten attractions most visited by the locals here in Luhansk.
How many of them have you seen?
There are all worth visiting and taking a picture of:
1. Heroes Square
2. Komsomol public garden
3. May Day Park
4. Friendship public garden
5. Circus
6. Gorky Regional Library
7. Russian Drama Theater
8. Caucasian Yard Georgian restaurant
9. City concert hall in Luxemburg Square
10. Museum of local lore.Where to relax in Luhansk
(in Russian) Leave a Comment Address: Sovietskaya Street and all over the cityDirections: downtown and in the Old Town
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on January 11, 2008
