The city of Kirovsk is stern and beautiful is located on the Kola Peninsula, that is, for the polar circle, and therefore, if you arrive here, you will be a great opportunity to see the polar night and the northern lights. Since the climate is rather severe here, it provides its inhabitants and guests a successful development of winter sports. Well, the mountain relief of the terrain is very helping to leisure extremals.
In this city, such famous films as "Leviafan" and "Mystery of Dyatlov Pass" were shot in its surroundings. Also, the city's natives are such famous personalities, as as a TV journalist Andrei Malakhov and Writer Venedikt Erofeev. In the city you can and you need to visit the Museum and Exhibition Center, which is called "Apatit". Moreover, the museum building itself is very interesting, which local residents call Big Ben for the fact that he has its own clock tower.
The museum consists of 8 halls, in which minerals and mining ore are collected literally from all continents. And the fossils in the halls are presented in different form - there is both a raw breed, and there are also, for example, a very interesting collection of billiard balls from different minerals. Well, the main part of the exposition is occupied by mock-ups of mines and also processing centers with backlit and according to voice acting.
It is noteworthy that periodically turns on the alarming siren, which means a call for evacuation. In this mine after such a sound, the explosion follows and then the collapse. Also in the museum is told about the development of mining, about awards and gifts, about the first apatitis produced by a local plant, a lot of documents and various photos. In a separate room, even a valid mine is presented with all its tools and with all equipment. Also in the museum are very interesting interactive exhibitions.
The next very interesting place to pay attention to Kirovsk is the building of the abandoned railway station. It was discovered in 1939, when active mining of ore was held in this city. At that time, he was the largest building in the city and at the same time the most elegant, because it was lined with marble and granite, and the chandeliers of bronze were hanging inside and even a large reproduction of the Pictures "Ninth Val" Ivan Aivazovsky.
So it is not clear why such a chic station was built in such a small town. Some thought that the project was developed for the city of Kirov, but in Kirovsk it was built in general by mistake. And on another option it was assumed that Stalin was supposed to come here and especially for his arrival was built such a station in the style of Stalinsky Ampira to please the Grand Chief of all nations. Well, since in 1996, the railway communication was stopped in Kirovsk, the train station was not needed in essence. At first, everything that was there was immediately stolen, and in two years the building burned down. Well, today the ruins of this station adore local stalkers, as well as graffiti lovers.
It is also worth looking into the historical and local history museum of the city of Kirovsk, which consists of two branches. One of them shows itself about the history of the Kola Peninsula, and the second is fully dedicated to Sergey Mironovich Kirov. There are the first studies of the peninsula, long-standing documents on the development of mines, materials dedicated to the period of the Great Patriotic War, when Kirovsk was the center of defense of the Polar region. There are personal belongings, letters from the front and awards of local residents in the Great Patriotic War. In a separate exposition, it is described about the nature of the region, there are stuffed northern animals - sands, deer, white foxes and seals, as well as herbarium from northern plants.
In 1931, the polar-Alpine Botanical Garden Institute was founded in Kirovsk. Already then scientists sought to preserve the plants of the Polar region, which began to be actively destroyed due to the extraction of apatites. Therefore, it began to bring samples of flora from many corners of the world. Here the inhabitants of the tropics are growing, such as palm trees, cacti and ferns, then the northern types of -beaski, dwarf willow, cloudberries and flowers, and also presented a large collection of plants from the middle strip of Russia. All these plants were adapted to grow in an atypical climate for them. Now they grow straight in the open soil. Also here can be viewed on the collection of herbaries brought from Australia, France, Asia and America. At the Institute there is a living corner in which hares, moose, polar mice, as well as pike and perch.
As the city of Kirovsk is built already under Soviet power, then there was no churches and temples at all. So the Savior Savior Savior Cathedral in Kirovsk was built on the site of the first settlement of geologists. At that time, the struggle was actively carried out not only with Orthodoxy, but in general with any faith, therefore displaced persons, the main part of which was concluded by Solovetsky camps, secretly equipped their place for prayers. Well, in 1946, a chapel was established next to this place in honor of the Kazan Icons and only since then the city has ceased to call the "Burning Center".
Of course, the largest interest in Kirovsk represents the Greater Woodyavr skiing complex, which is located at an altitude of 1060 meters and has an extensive network of trails with a total length of up to 35 kilometers. There is everything you need, both for professional skating, and in order to train newbies. There is also a special slope that is intended exclusively for freeride, that is, for skating in a snowy virgin. The resort has two hotels, each of which employs ski equipment rental. For children, a children's room with a duty officer is equipped.
In winter, in Kirovsk you can visit a snowy village that works in the Tirvas Precittory district. This is essentially a complex of buildings made of ice and snow, but it is built every year by a completely new project. As in the present town, there is your cinema, the bar and says the park with ice sculptures. During a tour of the snowy village, you can watch movies about those buildings that were erected earlier, and also here are often master classes, where you can learn how to make figures from snow and ice. On the territory every year the rink is poured and children's slides work, then you can ride a sleigh with Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden, and with other fabulous characters.