Pedestrian Street Kirovka, Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinskaya oblast, Russia
On the territory of Chelyabinsk, there are about 250 objects included in the list of cultural heritage of Russia. 117 belong to the pre-revolutionary period and 100 – to the Soviet period.
The pedestrian street Kirovka is the most favorite place of locals and guests of the city. The street has some interesting monuments (“Zero Milestone”, a monument to the tankmen-volunteers, a monument to Alexander Rozenbaum, a monument to the founders of Chelyabinsk) and sculptures.
In the Victory Park you can find monuments to heroes of the Second World War and the Eternal flame. In the Victory Garden there are several monuments dedicated to the war, as well as a museum of military equipment in the open air.
You will see a monument to Lenin, and a “singing” fountain on Revolution Square. The city has several monuments to famous people: Kurchatov, Prokofiev, Glinka, Gorky and Zwilling.
Chelyabinsk has monuments dedicated to machinery: “IS-3” tank on Komsomolskaya Square, “Stalinets-65” tractor in the residential neighborhood “Topolinaya Alley” and “Red kommunar” locomotive in front of the Palace of Culture of Railwaymen. There is a monument “The Tale of the Urals” on Privokzalnaya Square.
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