Preparing for its 430th anniversary, Samara has a huge number of exhibits of its historical path, placed in dozens of museums in the city district. For guests of one of the largest and most wonderful cities of the Volga region, the article indicates the most visited museums in Samara, the list of which includes the most attractive for tourists.
Samarsky exclusive
The city of Kuibyshev (now Samara) during the Great Patriotic War became a reserve capital in case Moscow was taken by the Nazis. The Soviet government and foreign missions were evacuated here. In nine months of 1942, a unique bunker for the Supreme Commander-in-Chief with a depth of 37 meters was built by 2900 people and 800 engineers under the leadership of Yu. Ostrovsky. This giant building until 1990 was a secret for the whole country, including the residents of the house number 167 on the street. Frunze, under which he really is.
The construction of the facility itself was also secret, despite round-the-clock work. More than 25 thousand cubic meters of soil were removed without involvingpeople's attention. The fate of the builders of the underground apartments is unknown: there is not a single living witness who would claim involvement in the construction of the 20th century. Stalin's bunker is an object of federal importance. As a museum, it works with visitors only on weekdays from 11:00 to 15:00. Pre-registration required. To visit the conference hall for 115 people (the total area of underground apartments is 200 sq. m.), Stalin's office, you need to go down 192 steps, which corresponds to the height of a 12-storey building.
History of Literature and Art
Museum. P. V. Alabina
More than 180 thousand exhibits from archaeological to ethnographic collections are kept by local history museums. Samara united three of them into a single regional museum named after the former head of Samara, Pyotr Vladimirovich Alabin. The main modern building was built in 1989 and includes 3500 sq. m of space for organizing exhibitions. The museum is located at: st. Leninskaya, 142, a few hundred meters from the railway station.
It consists of three branches: the Mansion of A. P. Kurlina (Krasnoarmeyskaya, 15), the museum of M. V. Frunze (Frunze, 114) and the house-museum of V. I. Lenin (Leninskaya, 131).
Museum. M. Gorky with the estate of Alexei Tolstoy (Frunze, 155)
Previously, these were two independent institutions dedicated to writers who lived in the city district. Samara museums tend to unite and create single compositions that tell about all the literary figures, one way or another connected withSamara. Tolstoy's estate is an independent historical monument of the 19th century, where Aleksey Nikolaevich's parents (mother and stepfather) lived until his death.
Art Museum
Created by local merchant Konstantin Golovkin in 1897 with the support of Samara painters, the collection of outstanding artists became the basis of the art fund of the museum, established in 1937. His pride is the canvases of representatives of the Russian avant-garde: O. V. Rozanova, P. P. Konchalovsky, K. S. Malevich, A. V. Lentulov. Almost all museums in Samara are located in unique buildings. The main collection is located in the premises of the Opera and Ballet Theater (Kuibysheva, 92), a monument of the "pilonade style" of the 30s, located on the square named after. Kuibyshev, the largest in Europe.
The museum has two branches, one of which is located in the village. Shiryaevo. This is a house-museum where I. E. Repin stayed with his friends in 1870. Here in the summer you can get on a sightseeing boat on the river. Volga.
Space Samara
In honor of the anniversary of the first manned space flight in 2001, new museums in Samara were opened. A photo of the Soyuz launch vehicle at the intersection of Lenin Avenue and Novo-Sadovaya Street, one of the main thoroughfares of the city, points to the nearby Samara Cosmic Center. The monument is 68 meters high and weighs 73 tons. It was made in the workshops of the TsSKB Progress research and production complex, which has been producing two launch vehicle legs for over forty years. This is the most reliable product of the space industry,sent into space 1670 times.
The museum itself is located in a building of original design, connected to a launch vehicle. Among its exhibits are descent vehicles, models of rocket engines, which are of great interest to tourists.
Military history
In addition to the "Stalin's Bunker", the military history is related to the military history museum of the PriVO troops, located in the building - a historical monument of Russian modernism (architect D. A. Werner). This is the historical part of the city, the decoration of which is the legendary building of the drama theater of the city district. At the address st. Working, 1, you can trace the progress that the Russian army has made during the years of Soviet power: from a cart with a Maxim machine gun to a model of a modern rocket. The exhibition halls contain unique material about the exploits of the Volga people in all wars, in which the Volga Military District became a participant.
Unique museums of Samara: addresses, short descriptions
Kuibyshev Highway
The urban district of Samara is adorned with Europe's tallest building of the railway station, at a 95-meter height there is an observation deck, from where you can see the city as if lying in the palm of your hand. On the second floor there is the Kuibyshev Railway Museum, where transit passengers can get acquainted with the history of the development of the Kuibyshev Railway.
Frog Museum
Fairy tale museum (Krupskaya st., 1), which tells about both a real amphibian and fictional characters of good Russian artworks, the only one in Russia. In addition to exhibitions, master classes are held here, where everyone can make a toy frog with their own hands.
Zoological Museum
Located in the building of the Humanitarian Academy on the street. Antonova-Ovseenko, 24, named after D. N. Florov, the museum has in its collection exhibits of the 1920-1930s, which makes it truly the pride of the Samara land. Here are collected collections of ancient corals, molluscs and tropical butterflies.
Museums in Samara every year hold days of free visits, promotions for children during school holidays, providing preferential tickets for certain categories of citizens to familiarize visitors with the history of their native land.
