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Museums Attractions In Volga District

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Volga Federal District is one of the eight federal districts of Russia. It forms the southeastern part of European Russia. Its population was 29,899,699 according to the 2010 Census, living on an area of 1,038,000 square kilometers . Igor Komarov was appointed the federal district's Presidential Envoy on September 18, 2018. The historical center of the district is known as the Idel-Ural region.
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  • 1. Museum of the Civil Aviation History Ulyanovsk
    This is a list of aerospace museums and museums that contain significant aerospace-related exhibits throughout the world. The aerospace museums are listed alphabetically by country and their article name.
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  • 3. Perm State Art Gallery Perm
    Perm is a city and the administrative center of Perm Krai, Russia, located on the banks of the Kama River in the European part of Russia near the Ural Mountains. According to the 2010 Census, Perm's population is 991,162, down from 1,001,653 recorded in the 2002 Census and 1,090,944 recorded in 1989 Census. As of the 2010 Census, the city was the thirteenth most populous in Russia.From 1940 to 1957 it was named Molotov in honor of Vyacheslav Molotov.
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  • 4. M. Kalashnikov Small Arm's Museum Exhibition Complex Izhevsk
    Lieutenant-General Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov was a Russian general, inventor, military engineer and small arms designer. He is most famous for developing the AK-47 assault rifle and its improvements, the AKM and AK-74, as well as the PK machine gun and RPK light machine gun.Kalashnikov was, according to himself, a self-taught tinkerer who combined innate mechanical skills with the study of weaponry to design arms that achieved battlefield ubiquity. Even though Kalashnikov felt sorrow at the weapon's uncontrolled distribution, he took pride in his inventions and in their reputation for reliability, emphasizing that his rifle is a weapon of defense and not a weapon for offense.
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  • 5. Shishkin Memorial House Museum Yelabuga
    Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin was a Russian landscape painter closely associated with the Peredvizhniki movement.
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  • 6. Saratov State Radischev Art Museum Saratov
    Saratov is a city and the administrative center of Saratov Oblast, Russia, and a major port on the Volga River located upstream of Volgograd. Population: 837,900 ; 873,055 ; 904,643 .
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  • 7. Stalin's Bunker Samara
    The Stalin's Bunker is an air raid shelter located near Samara State University of Culture in Samara , Russia. It is a subterranean bunker complex constructed between February and October 1942. It was the alternative Supreme High Command General Headquarters of the Soviet Armed Forces intended for Joseph Stalin during World War II. The Stalin's Bunker is located 37 metres beneath the Kuybyshev CPSU oblast Committee building , 100 metres south-east of the Samara Academy Theater. The Stalin's Bunker was declassified in 1990. Now the civil defence museum occupies the former air raid shelter. The air-raid shelters for the Soviet High Command was built also in Yaroslavl, Gorky , Kazan, Ulyanovsk, Saratov and Stalingrad .
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  • 8. Island Sviyazhsk Museum Sviyazhsk
    Wrangel Island is an island in the Arctic Ocean, between the Chukchi Sea and East Siberian Sea. Wrangel Island lies astride the 180° meridian. The International Date Line is displaced eastwards at this latitude to avoid the island as well as the Chukchi Peninsula on the Russian mainland. The closest land to Wrangel Island is the tiny and rocky Herald Island located 60 km to the east. The distance to the closest point on the mainland is 140 km . Wrangel Island may have been the last place on earth where mammoths survived. Most of Wrangel Island, and Herald Island, is a federally protected nature sanctuary administered by Russia's Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. The island, and its surrounding waters, were classified as a Zapovednik in 1976 and, as such, receive the highest l...
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  • 11. The Museum of One Picture Penza
    The Soviet atomic bomb project was the classified research and development program that was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons during World War II.Although the Soviet scientific community discussed the possibility of an atomic bomb throughout the 1930s, going as far as making a concrete proposal to develop such a weapon in 1940, the full-scale program was initiated during World War II. Because of the conspicuous silence of the scientific publications on the subject of nuclear fission by German, American, and British scientists, Russian physicist Georgy Flyorov suspected that the Allied powers had secretly been developing a superweapon since 1939. Flyorov wrote a letter to Stalin urging him to start this program in 1942. Initial efforts were slowed du...
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