The best Samara museums. Samara - an attractive center of culture for tourists

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 lists the most visited museums in Samara, the list of which includes the most attractive for tourists.

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The city of Kuibyshev (now Samara) became the reserve capital in the course of the Great Patriotic War in case the fascists took Moscow. The Soviet government and foreign missions were evacuated here. In the nine months of 1942, a unique bunker for the Supreme Commander-in-Chief with a depth of 37 meters was built by forces of 2,900 people and 800 engineers under the leadership of Yu. Ostrovsky. This gigantic structure until 1990 was secret for the whole country, including residents of the house number 167 on the street. Frunze, under which really is.

The construction of the facility itself was also secret, despite the 24-hour work. More than 25 thousand cubic meters of soil was exported, 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 would have claimed involvement in the construction of the 20th century. The Stalin bunker is an object of federal significance. As a museum, he works with visitors only on weekdays from 11:00 to 15:00. Preliminary recording is required. To attend the meeting room for 115 people (the total area of the underground apartments is 200 sq. M.), Stalin's office should be descended down 192 steps, which corresponds to the height of the 12-storey building.

History of literature and art

The Museum. P.V. Alabina

More than 180 thousand exhibits from archaeological to ethnographic collections are preserved by historical and local history museums. Samara united three of them into a single regional museum named after the former Samara head, Petr Vladimirovich Alabin. The main modern building was built in 1989 and includes 3500 sq. M. M of space for the organization of exhibitions. The museum is located at: ul. Leninskaya, 142, a few hundred meters from the railway station.

It consists of three branches: the AP Kurlina Mansion (Krasnoarmeyskaya, 15), the MV Frunze Museum (Frunze, 114) and the Lenin House Museum (Leninskaya, 131).

The Museum. M. Gorky with the estate of Alexei Tolstoy (Frunze, 155)

Previously, there were two independent institutions dedicated to writers who lived on the territory of the urban district. Museums of Samara tend to unite and create a single composition, telling about all literary figures, one way or another related to Samara. Tolstoy Estate is an independent historical monument of the XIX century, where the parents of Alexey Nikolayevich (mother and stepfather) lived until his death.

Art Museum

Created by local merchant Konstantin Golovkin in 1897 with the support of Samara painters, a collection of outstanding artists became the foundation of the art fund of the museum, created in 1937. His pride are the canvases of representatives of the Russian avant-garde: OV Rozanova, PP Konchalovsky, KS Malevich, and AV Lentulov. Almost all the museums of 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 "pylon-style" of the 1930s, located on the square. 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. Repin stayed with his friends. Here in the summer time you can get on the excursion boat on the river. The Volga.

Samara Space

In honor of the jubilee of the first space flight with a man on board in 2001, new museums of Samara were opened. A photo of the Soyuz carrier rocket at the intersection of Lenin Avenue and Novo Sadovaya Street, one of the main highways of the city, points to the nearby center Samara Space. The height of the monument is 68 meters with a weight of 73 tons. It was manufactured in the shops of the scientific and production complex "TsSKB Progress", which produced two feet of a carrier rocket for over forty years. This is the most reliable product of the space industry, which went to space 1670 times.

The museum itself is located in the building of original construction, connected with a rocket-carrier. Among its exhibits - descent vehicles, models of rocket engines, which is of great interest to tourists.

Military history

In addition to the Stalin's Bunker, military history has a relationship with the Priory Museum, located in the building - a historical monument of Russian modernism (architect DA Werner). This is the historical part of the city, the adornment of which is the legendary building of the Drama Theater of the city district. At the address. Working, one can trace the progress that the Russian army has achieved during the years of Soviet power: from the machine gun with the Maxim machine gun to the model of the modern missile. In the exhibition halls, a unique material about the feats of the Volzhans was collected in all wars, of which the Privolzhsky military district became a participant.

Unique museums of Samara: addresses, brief descriptions

"Kuibyshev Highway"

The city district of Samara is decorated with the highest building in Europe of the railway station, at the 95-meter height of which there is an observation deck from which it is visible as if lying on the palm of the city. On the second floor is the museum "Kuibyshevskaya main line", where transit passengers can get acquainted with the history of development of the Kuibyshev Railway.

Museum of the frog

The fairy-tale museum (Krupskaya Street, 1), which tells of both real amphibious and fictional characters of good Russian works of art, is unique in Russia. In addition to exhibitions, master classes are held here, where everyone can make a toy frog with his own hands.

Zoo museum

Located in the building of the Humanitarian Academy on the street. Antonova-Ovseyenko, 24, bearing the name of DN Florov, the museum has in its collection exhibits of the 1920-1930-ies, which makes it truly a pride of the Samara land. Here you can find collections of ancient corals, mollusks and tropical butterflies.

Museums of Samara every year hold days of free visits, promotions for children during school holidays, providing for preferential tickets for certain categories of citizens to familiarize visitors with the history of their native land.