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Popular Things To Do | Other Things To Do Tips | All Tips (46) 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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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 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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This museum located in the Old Town in Karl Marx Street (former Kazan Street) reflects the city history and has several exhibitions.
This museum is one of the city's several museums and is an example of the Russian architecture of the neginning of the 20th century.
The building housed the City Council before 1917.
The most popular exhibition there is dedicated to the life and activities of Clement Voroshilov, the first Soviet five-star general who lived and worked in Luhansk in 1917-1918.
The exhibition contains authentic artifacts: gifts to him, paintings and documents, Voroshilov's uniform. Seeing his uniform you can't help wondering what a little man (about 160 cm: 5' 3") he was. Leave a Comment Address: Marx StreetDirections: Opposite Image store
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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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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). Leave a Comment Address: Shevchenko StreetDirections: Next to "Babylon" bowling club
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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. Leave a Comment Address: Sovietskaya Street and all over the cityDirections: downtown and in the Old Town
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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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This cannon is one of the many cannons cast at Luhansk iron foundry for the needs of the Russian navy in the early 1800s.
It stands at the entrance to the museum of local lore as a reminder of the former glory of this foundry and "Luhansk factory" , as the city was called before it got municipal rights in 1882.
You can see a very special monument located in Oboronnaya Street (it is on one of the pictures here).
The monument is called “To the Fighters for Communism”. It has the form of a huge concrete column consisting of separate concrete blocks. It is located next to the Ukrainian Drama Theater. The inscription at the monument reads, “This monument was erected to honor the inspired residents of Luhansk, unyielding fighters of workers' revolution, devoted to their Motherland and to the Communist Party, to the heroes of the development of socialist ideals, staunch soldiers of the Great Patriotic War (WWII)” Leave a Comment Address: Shevchenko StreetDirections: At the entrance to the local lore museum
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on May 17, 2008
