The main natural attraction of the Far East is the most important water transport artery - the Amur River, on the banks of which the city of Khabarovsk is located.
The favorite resting place of Khabarovsk residents and guests of the city is the central square, which can be considered a unique architectural complex. Among the green groves on an area of about eight thousand square meters there is one main fountain and eight small, various types of lamps and at least a thousand hydraulic devices.
The sights of Khabarovsk include several churches.
Innocent Church. The history of its construction is associated with the first settlers who, having landed on the banks of the Amur River, built a small chapel of wood. In the seventies of the nineteenth century in a place called Military Mountain, a wooden church was erected, which was given the name Innokentyevskaya in honor of the first Irkutsk bishop - the patron saint of the Far East and Siberia, St. Innocent. Wooden the church in 1898 was replaced by a stone one. During the Bolshevik regime, it was adapted for the utility room, like many other churches in Russia. In the nineties of the twentieth century, it was returned to believers, more precisely, they returned what was left of the church. Recovery was carried out from old photographs
The Assumption Cathedral is the face of the city. Sights like this, perhaps, are no longer found in the city. Built in the medieval Pskov-Novgorod style by Khabarovsk architect Yuri Viktorovich Podlesny, the cathedral is a real decoration of the city’s architecture. The temple reaches forty meters in height and has one aisle dedicated to the early Christian martyr Tatiana and two more side. The cathedral is located in the forest area near one of the largest universities in Khabarovsk. In the two thousandths of our century, the temple began to be restored after the destruction in the thirtieth year of the last century, and now the Assumption Cathedral shines with its domes
Sights of Khabarovsk include the Transfiguration Cathedral - the tallest Orthodox building in the Far East. The height of the temple is eighty-three meters. The first stone was laid at the beginning of the two thousandth of our century. The cathedral has five domes and it was built on donations from the population of the Khabarovsk Territory and at the expense of various local commercial organizations. The upper hall of the temple is designed for two thousand people, the lower one seats one and a half thousand. The cathedral is located on the high bank of the Amur River.
In addition to Christian monuments, Khabarovsk has sights and are quite secular, for example:
- Park Muravyov-Amursky. It is noteworthy for the monument to the Governor General of Eastern Siberia.
- Park Dynamo.
- Children's entertainment center "Harlequin."
- City Park of Culture and Rest. Yuri Gagarin.
- The first stationary circus in Khabarovsk .
The sights of Khabarovsk include several monuments:
- Monument to Erofei Khabarov. Created by the centenary of the city, located on the forecourt.
- Monument to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin - a work of art of the early twentieth century;
- A memorial with eternal flame, created in honor of those who did not return from the Great Patriotic War.
- “Black Tulip” - a monument to the fallen soldiers-internationalists.
The sights of Khabarovsk include at least a dozen different monuments and memorials, as well as many museums.
Museums of Khabarovsk is an art, archaeological, historical, military-historical , local history and fish museum of the Amur.
For example, the local history museum presents a stuffed Amur tiger and the skeleton of a sea cow, while the art museum owns the originals of Renaissance masters. In the exhibition halls of the museums of Khabarovsk, you can get acquainted with many interesting exhibits.