Ulyanovsk, I am familiar with school bench, but besides the fact that Lenin was born in this city, I didn't know anything else. The situation with ignorance was fixed in this spring when we and the spouse and a small self-journey through the cities of Russia. Ulyanovsk city, I personally liked very much. Do you know what? With her comfort. I did not arise other associations, as I felt like this, it seems to be returned home after a long absence. It is not very correct, to associate Ulyanovsk only with the birth of one, even if such an outstanding person, like Vladimir Ilyich. It is here that there is no need to resort to the services of a guide. Want to know what you can see in Ulyanovsk?
Imperial bridge . In fact, it is the official name, although I first thought that this bridge was so nicknamed in the people. It is noteworthy in that it is the largest railway bridge in Europe. Initially, the bridge was conceived as a railway. Construction lasted for three years from 1913 to 1916. Above the development of the project, the architect worked, who specialized at the Most-Building N.A. Belelyubsky, helpers, he was engineers Maddison and Pshenitsky. In 1952 - 1958, the bridge was subjected to reconstruction, after which he became not only a railway, and also automotive crossing. The length of the bridge is impressive because it is two thousand eighty-nine meters. According to its type, it refers to the beam structures and has through-cut for wrought iron. In two thousand tens of year, the bridge was completed by the grandiose repair work, which were held over seven years. The construction is ambitious, and I think that it will just justify this bridge, not one hundred years.
Public Assembly Building . Now here is Philharmonic, and during the times of pre-revolutionary Russia, it was a "folk house." About such a name, I found out only here in Ulyanovsk. It turns out that the houses and buildings that were publicly available for citizens are so called. The structure, built pretty quickly, in just one year from 1909 to 1910. The construction project, developed architect Fedor Livchak. It is necessary to express this talented person, due to gratitude, since more than one hundred years since the appearance of this building, it looks just fine. Money for construction, was collected at the expense of donations of citizens and at the expense of the Committee, which trust the folk sobriety. The building is very beautiful and fully meets the fashion of those times. It is white, the walls are decorated with angels, stucco and bas-relief colon, and looking at all this beauty difficult to imagine that all this was built only in one year.
Boulevard Crown . This boulevard is part of the Old Town. It is located on a hill and from here an incredible view of the mighty river Volga opens. So I remember the words from the song "from far long, flowing the Volga River". It is this song that I purred my nose, while walking through this boulevard. This place is popular with such tourists as we with the spouse and among the locals, since the people here are quite a lot, not the crowd of course, but a lot. On the boulevard there are many buildings in the style of Russian modern, which gives a good reason to call it a kind of open-air museum. But this is not important, because from this place began its own history of the modern Ulyanovsk, but in those days this city was called Sinbirsk.
Square of the 30th anniversary of Victory . The name of the square, speaks for itself because it was founded in 1975, accurately to thirty years from the day of victory. The area consists of two tiers of the memorial part. On the lower tier, there is an eternal flame and a wall on which the names of the fallen soldiers are perpetuated. In the upper tier, the forty-seven meter obelisk is installed, which is crowned with a five-pointed star. The place for the square was pretty Pretty Pretchily and decided to follow the advice of the first secretary of the Ulyanovsky Regional Committee of the CPSU Anatoly Andrianovich Koochilov, and to establish it at the very beginning of Goncharov Street. The square itself is lined with plates and the benefit that we were in the spring, because in the summer there is just a hot frying pan due to the lack of green plantings. No, the trees of course there is but not on the square itself, but in the district. Here is the absence of vegetation, I really did not like it, and everything is fine, pure and civilically.
Wind organ . I understand that the idea was such that this body makes the sounds when the wind blows. It was not possible to implement this idea due to the fact that the place for its installation was chosen incorrect, and rather windless. There is this musical instrument, on the main square of the city, just opposite the regional philharmonic. The solemn discovery took place in two thousand and sixth year. This is a completely wrought structure, the height of which is eight meters, and weight ranges on two tons. In addition to the fact that it was not quite a good space for him, so also the design was not fully thought out, but as a sculpture, he was very similar to both local residents and guests of the city, so it was decided to leave him in his place.
Ulyanovsk Regional Art Museum . It is about this museum, wrote D. S. Likhachev as the most oldest museum in the Volga region, in which the cultural heritage of all-Russian and world importance is carefully kept. The expositions of the museum began to be formed back in 1895. After the revolution of 1917, the museum received its own building and independent status. To date, the museum boasts more than eleven thousand exhibits. The biggest pride of the museum is the canvas of the work of such famous artists as F. Rokotov, K. Brylov, D. Levitsky and V. Borovikovsky.
The museum has a unique department, which is devoted to decorative and applied art where you can see the ancient ceramics of the third fourth centuries BC, Russian, French and German porcelain, Western European and Russian glass, as well as ancient artistic furniture. Very interesting museum, and I strongly advise him to visit.