Luhansk

Tatars among other nations are native population of multinational region of Central Eurasia, especially its steppes – modern territories of Russian Federation, Ukraine, Kazakhstan. During the second half of 19th century Volga Tatars from central Russia, as citizens of the Russian Empire, in great number moved to the Donbas area of southern Ukraine to work at mines and factories. The number of Volga Tatars at the Luhansk region grew up to about 400,000. Tatars had their own mosques and schools. In the 1990s there was a revival of religious, cultural and social life of different communities (among them Tatar communities of Ukraine) and society in whole. It became possible to build and open new mosques and other religious and cultural establishments and buildings. Luhansk Cathedral mosque was built by the Muslim community (mostly Tatars) of the Luhansk region. It was opened on 29 May 2010. The mosque building is a two-storied construction with an area of 550 square meters. In a basement floor there is a sports hall and a kitchen. On the ground floor there is a library, classroom, and office. Capacity 500. The minaret 25 meters tall.

It's in one of the oldest streets in the former home of famous industrialists Venderovich built in 1876. The museum contains over eight thousand items of domestic and foreign art 16-20th centuries. among them, about 1500 paintings, 300 sculptures, 4500 decorative and applied arts.

In a former city government, created in 1980 as a museum Voroshilov, after whom the city in Soviet times was called Voroshilovgrad. The main exhibition is dedicated to the development of the city in the 19th century. At the entrance is an exhibition of ancient cannons, cast in Luhansk foundry.

One of the eldest museums of Donbassa is in a constructivist building from 1976. 7 displays are devoted history of Luhanschina from the most ancient times to our days. An exhibition operates "Inhabitantsofbrinydepths". Two captured English tanks of Mark of V "Rikardo" (MK-5) of times of First World War, age-old cannon, are alongside set.

More than 60 exhibits. Planes of those who got to the museum by accident.

A museum is devoted to the well-known Luhansk artist, master of landscape.

Here are more than 80 sculptures Polovtsian stone sculptures - one of the largest collections in Ukraine, stone statues of the 11th-12th centuries. These sculptures called "stone broads" because most of them resemble human figures, mostly men or women. The stone woman - sculptures, in height 1-4 m, were placed on the mounds of ancient peoples: the Scythians, Polovtsy etc. These are the only monumental art of long-extinct nomadic people who lived here in what is now Luhansk region.

The main purpose of the fire-technical exhibition - fire safety propagation, so they quite often give tours to schoolchildren and students. The museum has many interesting exhibits that model development of different emergency situations.

A small single-storey, five-room building was here since the 1820s. In 1986, opened a literary house museum of Vladimir Ivanovich Dal. The exhibition in the house where he was born and lived for a long time, the greatest writer. The museum has three exhibition halls.

Vladislav Titov is symbolic figure for Luhansk. In Ukraine, the Donbas area, he spent most of his life. He had 10 operations, the last without the morphine, not to make his drug-addicted, amputation of both hands, learning to live like everyone else, the beginning of classes in literary work, publishing made him famous novel "All the deaths in spite", writing a further 13 works, literary fame.

A trademark Luhansk monument, put in a beautiful location with grand sight to the northern part of the city. Monument was opened at the 100th anniversary of birth of this legendary military leader, publicman of soviet time. The monument is of 12 m height (together with the horse). Voroshilov worked in a local factory, leaded revolutionary movement of Luhansk workers, managed Luhansk committee of Russian Social Democratic Workers Party.

A granite plaque to U. Alexsensev, V. Pyaterkyn, V. Tretyakevych, killed while fighting the occupation in 1942-1943.

A concrete bust on a granite, rectangular pedestal on the central alley of the park.

Built as Mining Commercial club in 1912. It contained a library, a billiard room, lounge rooms and a buffet. It quickly became a cultural center of the city. After it was rebuilt after World War II, it hosted drama theater, and later was made the regional Palace of Culture of railway workers.

The most beautiful hotel was in Luhansk - "October." There were 173 rooms in the center Voroshilovgrad (now - Luhansk) building was originally called "Moscow". The brick facade made smartly and festive mood, its ornament created by all the rules tectonic organization. Vertical triangular pilasters of white silicate brick as lace, in contrast to the red wall generate rhythm, giving the facade of plasticity and severity.

Nick Peter Kholodilin - first city head of Luhansk. To his name critical years are related in history of Luhansk, time of his becoming as the largest industrial and cultural center of Donbass. Special attention city head spared development of health protection and equipping with modern amenities of Luhansk. In compositions has an Elegant oval frame with decorative leaves, the elbow-rest of arm-chair with a lion's head is strengthened the impression of nobleness and dignity.

A memorable cross was set Society of the Don cossacks Luhansk.

Pedestal - a metal. Dimensions pedestal - 5.0 x 2.5 m. The monument was erected in honor of soldiers, airmen who died during the Great Patrioticwar.

The building is a 2-storey manor from late 18th to beginning of the 19th century. First and second memorial plaques are marble; the 3rd is metal. The headquarters was located 5th Ukrainian Army, organized by Voroshilov.

In the 1880s, along with the Luhansk foundry began to appear first houses and streets. Near the plant entrance began building English Street one-story building in which lived British experts, senior officials of Luhansk foundry plant. In the early nineteenth century this street was the first two-storey building. It was built in an L-shape, but later it was renovated into a two-story rectangular building with a central part and one-story side. The central part emphasized square tapered portico with balcony. In the 1880s - 1900s, the building housed leadership of mining of Luhansk district. Today it houses the spa of the town.

Vladimir Ivanovich Dal was a famous Russian writer, lexicography and ethnographer, author of Intelligent Dictionary Russians Living Tongue. Monument Dalia established in honor of 180th anniversary of his birth. The writer is depicted as being seated in a chair. The total height of the monument is 3.4 m.

This famous capsule has to be open on the day of the 100th anniversary of the Komsomol and the message contained in it, "the Komsomol and Youth" sent out in October 1968 Luhansk regional committee to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Komsomol.

The prototype of a gun, what made Fyodor Gavrilov from Petrozavodsk, the hero who served as founder and master gun cases. He was one of the 400 workers what were transported to the Alexander factory in St. Petersburg under the decree of Catherine II.

Installed in 1969. In 1919 in Firsov mound was the command post of Luhansk working Regiment. The regiment was formed from the factories workers whose enjoyed for the Defense of Luhansk.

Bust on a rectangular pedestal. Dzerzhinskiy is represented in a tunic, without a head-dress. Dzerzhinskiy Fieliks Edmundovich was a soviet statesman, revolutionary, one of organizers of «red terror».

A monument to the border guards who were killed while performing military duty.

The facade of the building the fire station number 1 was a monument that portrays firefighter that saves girl from fire and symbolizes the courage of all firefighters Luhansk region.

In Afghanistan quite a bit Luhansk - 7,129 persons militated also. In a granite are the names of 162 natives of the Luhansk area, which perished in Afghanistan.

"Lay" - an unsurpassed masterpiece of ancient Russian literature. The poem is dedicated to hike Igor of Novgorod-Seversky's Prince and his men to Polovtsy in 1185. The author of "Words" is unknown. The establishment of the monument to the legendary writer-patriot in Luhansk natural: many scholars argue that the Battle of Prince Igor with Polovtsy held in the Luhansk region.

The monument is a stele, on its obverse the emblem of medicine. At the base of the stele is set black granite cube. On the left side of the court, on the memorial, the text: Medical staff of the regional hospital, who fell in the Great Patriotic War. 1941-1945.

Established on 3 December 2000. For the first time brought from Italian marble, in Kyiv, within four months under the guidance of the author's image of the Virgin with the Christ child is pulled from a stone, lost as a result of two-thirds the weight. Framing the composition arch height 11.5 meters decorated with granite and mosaic images of the Holy Trinity and the Twelve Apostles.

To celebrate the 55th anniversary of Victory Day, a ceremonial reburial of the ashes of the Unknown Soldier, who died in the battles of Luhansk. This soldier of the war is immortalized in bronze statue: a mortally wounded soldier as if transformed into a soaring into the blue sky cranes.

An obelisk is set with the names of 173 Heroes of Soviet Union.

On a marble pedestal is 5.5-meter sculpture of Taras Shevchenko. The monument still stands on the "temporary" marble pedestal

The monument to "victims of the nationalists" is a composition of three figures - women, children and men. Made from concrete monument, covered with brass plating. Installed at the base of a marble slab with the inscription: "Residents of Luhansk, perished at the hands of punitive-nationalists from the UPA."

The bronze figure of a growth on a rectangular black labradoritepedestal. The text on the pedestal: "V. Ulyanov (Lenin)". The figure - 5 m, the pedestal - 4.9 m.

A monument to poet Tatyana Snezhina. She in his short life managed to write so many wonderful poems. She was infinitely talented, the songs on her works sung many famous entertainers.

Five-meter high monument

Monument to teachers and students, who died at the front during World War II

Monument gun ZIS-3- was erected in honor of the 60th anniversary of Ukraine's liberation from Nazi invaders

A monument is a bust of famous pilot, graduating student of Voroshilovgrad aviation school of navigators.

A tombhill - on the outskirts of the height of Luhansk, which heroically defended against the prevailing forces of Denikin much of the Red Army troops and city workers during the period from April 21 to May 25, 1919. - obelisk is made of concrete, height 8.5 m statue of the Soviet Army soldiers who died in 1943 fighting for the liberation of Luhansk Nazis, a monument to Soviet soldiers-tankers - is mounted on a pedestal T-34 tank.

A concrete bust Pirogov mounted on a pedestal platform - black granite. Bust height - 1.1 m. MI Pirogov was a doctor and scientist, founder of the Red Cross Society, in Luhansk region

The memorial complex - on a hill, where tzarist forces confronted the workers and soldiers of the Luhansk plant 'Inzensky' 15th Division, in April 1919.

On the left side of the rectangular pedestal sculpture installed Miner. On the right side shows the natural stone, pedestal block, symbolizing the carbon pedestal sculpture - made of reinforced concrete.

Bust on a rectangular pedestal. Made from stained concrete & copper. H. Zveynek was a political commissar of the revolutionary 15 Inzenskoy Division member KPRS. was the founder the Latvian newspaper 'Moloda borotba'

In 1944 creative composition of Ukrainian legitimate drama was directed in Luhansk and in decision of the All-union committee of arts renamed in the Luhansk Ukrainian musical-dramatic theater. In 2002 the rank of academic was appropriated a theater.