The most interesting sights of Kemerovo

One of the most attractive cities in Russia is Kemerovo. It is located in the foothills of the Kuznetsk Alatau on the coast of the Tom River. It is quite a young city, formed on the site of the village of Shcheglov in 1918, which has a three-hundred year biography. Despite its youth, Kemerov's sights make a decent list. It has a wide choice of places to visit. The river Tom flows through the entire village, dividing it into two parts. The central part of the city is on the left bank. Here is a wide promenade with a superb view of the Krasnrodsk hills. In the modern city operates an international airport.

Sights of Kemerovo are first of all the most beautiful architectural constructions, among which the Znamensky cathedral. The building was completed in 1996. It immediately gained popularity among the guests and residents of the city. An equally impressive building is the Church of the Holy Trinity, dated 2008. It rises in the park zone at the intersection of two avenues - Chemists and Leningrad. In the immediate vicinity is another religious building - the Church of the Trinity Zhivonachnaya, whose construction is completed in 2008. The temple is a brick one-story building, in which there is a belfry.

Continuing to inspect the sights of Kemerovo, it is necessary to mention the Chapel of the Mother of God icon "Joy of All Who Sorrow". This is a single-domed church, built in the traditional Russian style in 1990. It is located on the Cathedral Square and serves as a baptismal. The next architectural structure, which is recommended to see, is the church of Dmitry Donskoy. It rises on Patriot Street and is a small wooden building with an octagonal dome and bell tower. And on the Mariinsky highway there is a chapel of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. It is a brick tented building of the octagonal type on the quadrangle.

But, architectural structures are not the only interesting places that Kemerovo is famous for. The sights of the city include in their list a lot of original monuments and monuments. On the Pritomsky embankment of the city there is a monument to a stray dog. The composition is a metal structure, in the upper part of which is a hatch cover. It is on this lid that there is a figure of a lying dog. There are monuments erected in honor of outstanding people, for example the monument to Vladimir Martemyanov, installed on the Pritomskaya Embankment. And on the Volkov square a monument to Mikhail Volkov is erected.

Attractions of Kemerovo can be supplemented with a list of numerous museums, each of which deserves attention. The most popular is the Museum of Local Lore, which is a kind of repository of natural monuments and the history of Kuzbass. No less interesting is the Museum of Fine Arts, the collection of which includes more than 5000 works of icon painting, graphics, painting, sculpture.

Among other attractive places of the city you can note the Theater of Drama. On the left bank of the Iskitimka River lies a beautiful Victory Park. Here you can see a lot of monuments, an exhibition of military equipment and guns. In 2006, a monument was erected to locomotive (locomotive of the 50's). No less popular is the City Garden - a cozy park with various attractions.

Sights of Kemerovo, photos of which are represented here, can not fully convey their beauty and grandeur. To get a more realistic view of these places, you need to see them with your own eyes.