Preparing for its 430th anniversary, Samara has a huge number of exhibits of its historical path, housed in dozens of museums in the city district. For guests of one of the largest and most remarkable cities of the Volga region, the article indicates the most visited museums of Samara, the list of which includes the most attractive for tourists.
Samara exclusive
The city of Kuibyshev (now Samara) during the Great Patriotic War became a reserve capital in case the Nazis took Moscow. The Soviet government and foreign missions were evacuated here. In the nine months of 1942, with the forces of 2,900 people and 800 engineers and engineers under the leadership of Yu. Ostrovsky, a unique bunker was built for the Supreme Commander-in-Chief 37 meters deep. This giant building until 1990 was secret for the whole country, including residents of house number 167 on the street. Frunze, under which it really is.
The construction of the facility itself was secret, despite the round-the-clock work. More than 25 thousand cubic meters of soil was removed without attracting the attention of people. The fate of the builders of the underground apartments is unknown: there is not a single living witness who claims to be involved in the construction of the 20th century. Stalin's bunker is an object of federal significance. As a museum, he works with visitors only on weekdays from 11:00 to 15:00. Advance booking required. To visit the meeting room for 115 people (the total area of the underground apartments is 200 sq. M), Stalin’s office, it is necessary to go down 192 steps, which corresponds to the height of a 12-story building.
History of Literature and Art
Museum them. P.V. Alabina
More than 180 thousand exhibits from archaeological to ethnographic collections are kept by local history museums. Samara combined three of them into a single regional museum named after the former Samara head Peter Vladimirovich Alabin. The main modern building was built in 1989 and includes 3500 square meters. m of space for organizing exhibitions. The museum is located at: st. Leninskaya, 142, a few hundred meters from the train station.
It consists of three branches: the Mansion of A.P. Kurlin (Krasnoarmeyskaya, 15), the museum of M.V. Frunze (Frunze, 114) and the house-museum of V.I. Lenin (Leninskaya, 131).
Museum them. Gorky with the estate of Alexei Tolstoy (Frunze, 155)
Previously, these were two independent institutions dedicated to writers who lived in the city district. Museums in Samara tend to unite and create single compositions that tell about all literary figures, one way or another connected with Samara. Tolstoy Manor is an independent historical monument of the 19th century, where Alexei Nikolayevich's parents (mother and stepfather) lived until his death.
Art Museum
Created by the local merchant Konstantin Golovkin in 1897 with the support of Samara painters, the collection of outstanding artists became the basis of the museum’s art fund, created 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 (Kuibyshev, 92), a monument of the “pilonad 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 with. Shiryaevo. This is a house-museum, where in 1870 I.E. Repin stayed with his friends. Here in the summer you can get on a sightseeing boat on the river. Volga.
Samara space
In honor of the anniversary of the first space flight with a man on board in 2001, new Samara museums were opened. A photo of the Soyuz launch vehicle at the intersection of Lenin Avenue and Novo-Sadovaya Street, one of the main highways of the city, points to the nearby Samara Cosmic center. The height of the monument is 68 meters with a weight of 73 tons. It was manufactured in the workshops of the TsSKB Progress scientific and production complex, which produced two feet of the launch vehicle for over forty years. This is the most reliable product of the space industry, which went into space 1670 times.
The museum itself is located in an original building connected to a booster rocket. Among its exhibits are descent vehicles, models of rocket engines, which is of great interest to tourists.
Military history
In addition to the "Stalin Bunker", the Museum of the Military Military District Troops is also related to military history, 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, one can trace the progress that the Russian army has achieved during the years of Soviet power: from a cart with a Maxim machine gun to a model of a modern rocket. The exhibition halls have collected unique material about the exploits of the Volga in all wars, in which the Volga Military District became a participant.
Unique museums of Samara: addresses, brief descriptions
Kuibyshev Highway
The Samara city district is decorated with the highest railway station building in Europe, at a 95-meter height which has an observation deck, from where you can see the city lying on the palm of your hand. On the second floor is the museum “Kuibyshev Highway”, where transit passengers can get acquainted with the history of the development of the Kuibyshev Railway.
Frog museum
The Fairy-Tale Museum (1 Krupskaya St.), which tells about both the real amphibian and the fictional characters of good Russian artwork, is 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.
Zoo museum
Located in the building of the Humanitarian Academy on the street. Antonova-Ovseenko, 24, bearing the name of D.N. Florov, the museum has in its collection exhibits of the 1920-1930s, which makes it truly the pride of Samara land. It contains collections of ancient corals, mollusks and tropical butterflies.
Museums of Samara every year spend days of free visits, promotions for children on days of school holidays, providing discounted tickets for certain categories of citizens to familiarize visitors with the history of their native land.