Novosibirsk Sightseeing tour “Epochs of the big city”

The route sights:

The meeting point – the park next to Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre 

1. Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre. It is one of the symbols of Novosibirsk. The building represents a historical and cultural value; it is a unique building, in the architecture of which the monumental forms of neoclassicism of the first half of the 20th century were embodied. This is one of the largest theatrical buildings not only in Russia, but all over the world, in which the achievements of the scientific and technological progress of their time have been realized. It is an architectural monument of federal significance.
 
2. Novosibirsk City Administration building. It was the building of Prombank. It is an example of the reconstruction of constructivism building in the super-monumental forms of the Stalinist neo-classic. Originally, the three-story building was constructed in the style of constructivism. It was put into operation in 1927 by the engineer S.A. Shestov, in 1931 the building was transferred to Executive Committee of the City and overbuilt two brick floors in the late 30's (without giving the architectural completeness). It is an architectural monument of federal significance.

3. Novosibirsk State Museum of local history. The building of the Museum has been built specially for the City mall in 1911. It was built in the center of Fair Square at Krasny prospect by A. D. Kryachkov. It is made in eclectic style with elements of the rationalist modernist style of the early 20th century. There was shop on the first floor and City Duma, Treasury and State bank department were at the second floor. On the night of 13 to 14 (from 26 to 27) of December, 1917 the decision about handing the power to the Soviets was made in the big hall by the members of the meeting of the Executive Committee of the Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies and the Executive Committee of the Uyezd Council of Peasants' Deputies. It is a history monument of federal significance.

4. Philharmonic Chamber Hall (Lenin's House). “Lenin's House” is a building that clearly expressed the direction in architecture of the 1920s, devoting to the memory of the “world proletariat leader” and is a real evidence of the socio-political situation of that time, as well as one of the most important public buildings of the city in classicism style. In the house-monument in the central part of the city at Yarmarochnaya Square there was the library of the works of V.I. Lenin and Leninism works, newspapers and radio editorial offices  and lecture hall. Workers and employees deducted a one-day earnings to the construction fund, and also you could buy special cards “Brick for the memory house of V.I. Lenin”. On the facade of the constructed building there were the words “Lenin is dead, Leninism is alive” and dates of his life.
 
5. Heroes of the Revolution Square (Memorial Square of the Fallen during the Civil War). The communal grave of the 104 fighters of the Civil War - a symbol of the square - is a monument connected with the period of the liberation of Novo-Nikolaevsk from the troops of Admiral Kolchak. On the night of December 13-14, 1919, the 27th division of the 5th Red Army entered to Novo-Nikolaevsk. In the prison stead (Trudovay str., 60) and in the Kamenka River they found the mutilated bodies of 104 people. Later, only 37 of them could be identified. The grave is located at the western part of the park, bordering to the “Lenin’s House”.

The communal grave of members of Novo-Nikolayevsk (Novosibirsk) Soviet of Workers', Peasants' and Soldiers' Deputies is a monument connected with the events of 1918, when on the night of May 25-26 the counter-revolutionary rebellion and the fall of Soviet power took place in the city. The grave is located at the eastern part of the Memorial Square. The remains of the fallen were transferred here from the city cemetery on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution.
 
6. Architectural and artistic composition "Siberian expanses"
Four sables, holding the sphere of golden color (stylized under the cupola of the Opera Theatre). The composition symbolizes the unity of the historical past, present and future of Novosibirsk. The choice of a place for a composition is not accidental: the discoverers of the city cut through a pine forest from south to north. That was the beginning of Novo-Nikolaevsk - the future Novosibirsk, the development of the expanses of the Siberian region began. Thus, the “Siberian expanses” is a tribute to all explorers and discoverers of Siberia.
 
7. Chapel of St Nicholas. The construction of the chapel was finished in 1915 and timed to 300 years anniversary of the House of Romanov.  The project engineer was A.D. Kryachkov. In 1930 by the decision of the city Soviet the chapel was demolished and on its place a Komsomol member monument and later Stalin monument, that some years ago was pulled down, were built.
The reconstruction of the chapel finished in 1993 – the 100 years anniversary of Novosibirsk. The architect P. Chernobrovcev increased the size and moved the base about 50 m.
Above the entrance in the semicircular arch there is a mosaic portrayal of St.Nicholas the Wonderworker.
 
8. Novosibirsk State Conservatory named after M.I. Glinka. Conservatory was founded in 1956; the Conservatory became the first music college in Siberia. Here all levels of professional training are realized: college, higher education, postgraduate study, assistant-internship, doctoral studies. There are student performance groups: two symphony orchestras, an orchestra of Russian folk instruments, a choir, an opera studio.

The building was built by the architect A.D. Kryachkov in 1923-1924, originally belonged to “Sibdalgostorg” and it was three-story building. There were shopping halls on the first and second floors, and the administrative offices occupied the top floor. The “Sibdalgostorg” office was preparing the harvesting furs, horns, hoofs and trading with the Far East. “Sibdalgostorg” brought to Novosibirsk “colonial goods”, like tea, coffee, spices.

In 1967, according to the project of the architect G.P. Zilberman there was reconstruction to accommodate the Novosibirsk State Conservatory here.  The building was adapted to the needs of this particular educational institution. The building represents historical and cultural values, is one of the works of the famous architect A.D. Kryachkov with the use of neoclassicism techniques of the 1920s of 20 century.
 
9. The Building of the branch of Bogorodskoe-Glukhovskay manufactory. The building is a monument connected with the history of the city, and also is an example of the qualitative use of neoclassicism in the architecture of Novo-Nikolaevsk. It is one of the first buildings in Siberia with an internal concrete frame. The building, which originally belonged to the Moscow textile manufacturers - Morozov family, was built at the corner of the Kabinetskaya and Kuznetskay streets (now Sovetskaya and Lenin streets) and had only two floors. In August 1918 there was the committee headed by I.F. Bogdanov (Chistyakov) here, who led the general strike of the workers. After that, the building was assigned to military units, and since 1922 there is the postal and telegraph office here.
 
10. “Pobeda” cinema. The building was founded as a part of the “Labor Complex” and named as “Proletkino” (means proletariat film). The style of the original project is revolutionary romanticism. In 1936 the first reconstruction was hold by the architect V.S. Maslennikov and the cinema received a new name “October”. After new reconstruction in 1947, when the cinema was decorated with a neoclassical eight-columned portico and two semi-circular arcades, the cinema got a new name “Pobeda”. The building is a historical and cultural value as a model of architecture of influence of several styles from the revolutionary romanticism of the 1920s to “Stalin Empire” of the 1950s.

11. The house of the merchant I.T. Surikov (female gymnasium of P.A. Smirnova)
A two-storey wooden house was built on the corner of Altayskay and Gondatti streets (now Lenin Street and Uritsky Street) in the central part of the city to accommodate the city treasury. The building belonged to the Barnaul merchant, the first city headman Ivan Timofeevich Surikov. In 1913 after the moving of the Treasury to the City Trade Building, I.T. Surikov leases the house for rent to the School Board of the women's gymnasium, the head of which was Pavla Alexandrovna Smirnova. The building represents the historical and cultural value as a public building of the beginning of the 20th century combining elements of baroque, classicism and traditional Siberian wooden architecture.
 
12. Siberian State University of Water Transport. It was the Labor Complex. The building is a historical and cultural value as an example of the architecture of revolutionary romanticism of the 1920s. The Palace, built for the Siberian Regional Council of Trade Unions, was originally built in the style of symbolic romanticism with an asymmetrical grouping of various buildings adjoining to each other. In 1936 the three-story building was reconstructed and built-up: in the decoration of the building there were elements of classical architecture. Since 1951 it is the building of the Novosibirsk Institute of Water Transport Engineers.
 
13. The alley of telecommunication workers. The alley is an architectural complex combining arches and lamps in the form of telephone sets, benches in the form of old phone disks and two phone boxes. In one of them there is coin-box telephone, you can call to any point in the city without any fee. As well you can surf the Internet for free at the second phone box.

The monument devoted to Glinka
The monument to Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka was installed in 1998 near the Novosibirsk State Conservatory, which named after the great composer. The authors of the monument are the sculptor V.P. Grachev and the artist-architect O.D. Drozdetsky.

In 2007 the monument was completely reconstructed. Next to the figure of Glinka there are two small steles, which depict the characters of his operas “Life for the Tsar” and “Ruslan and Lyudmila” Ivan Susanin, Antonida, Chernomor and Ruslan.
 
14. City Clinical Polyclinic. The building is one of the few buildings that were remained in Novosibirsk in the late 1920s in the form of neoclassicism, not characteristic of the architecture of the city of this period. It was built as the first specialized gynecological and obstetrical hospital in Novo-Nikolaevsk. At present it is the children's hospital.
 
15. The house of merchant Z.G. Kryukov
The monument is associated with an important period of activity of the Sibbureau of the Central Committee of the RCP (b), and is also an example of a profitable house of the early 20 century, executed in eclectic stylistics and keeping its original appearance. The house was built by the merchant Zakhary Grigorevich Kryukov at the corner of Kabinetskaya and Tobisenovskaya streets (now Sovetskaya Street and Gorky Street). From June 1921 to November 1923 this building was housed by the Siberian Bureau of the Central Committee of the RCP (b). In 1921-1922 Yemelyan Mikhailovich Yaroslavsky (Minei Gubelman, 1878-1943), an active figure in the Communist Party and the Soviet Union, who served as secretary of the Sibbureau of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) worked here.
 
16. The house of E.Ya. Verhovaya
The two-storied house is faced to the red line of M. Gorky Street (former Tobisenovskaya Street), before the establishment of Soviet power belonged to Yefrosinya Yakovlevna Verkhova. The building represents the historical and cultural value, being an example of the city apartment of Novo-Nikolaevsk, in the style of which the eclectic features of the beginning of the XX century can be seen.
 
17. The house for bank staff
The building is a successful example of one of the first multi-apartment houses in Novosibirsk, in which along with the set of stylized forms of order architecture, we can see the elements and techniques of different styles, including modern elements.

18. The monument of wooden architecture (Maxim Gorky str., 20)
The building is the big interest as an example of residential development in Novo-Nikolaevsk at the end of the 19th century, in the style of which the features of folk wooden architecture are traced. From the western facade to the building there are wooden gates.

19. The house of A. Faizuhanov
One-store log house is located in the same row with wooden buildings in a single style. According to historical information, the owner of the house was Ali Faizuhanov. The building is interest as an example of the residential development in Novo-Nikolaevsk at the end of the 19th century, in the style of which the features of folk wooden architecture can be traced.

20. The Museum of Siberian Birch. Master-Class.
The excursion ends with a visit to the “Siberian Birch Tree” Museum, where visitors can see products made of birch bark, take part in master classes on painting matryoshkas, making dolls and amulets.
 

The price is 200 to 400 rubles. Depending on the number of people.
 
* On the way of the group there are park zones for rest of group members and medical institutions for emergency assistance.