House-Museum of VA Rusanov in Orel
Orel, ul. Rusanova, 41 
This museum is connected with the life and work of the remarkable figure of Russian science, polar explorer VA Rusanov. The museum was opened in 1982 and occupies an old wooden house in Zheleznodorozhny district, included in the list of objects of cultural heritage.
NS Leskov House-Museum in Orel
Orel, ul. Oktyabrskaya, d. 9 
NS Leskov House-Museum, arranged in a noble residence of 1874, built by the architect I. F. Thibault-Brignol at the place of the Leskov family estate, on Oktyabrskaya Street, house 9, is the only literary memorial museum of the great Russian writer NS Leskov in the country.
Turgenev Museum in Orel
Orel, ul. Turgenev, 11 
The Museum of IS Turgenev is one of the oldest in Russia. It was opened during the Civil War. The museum occupies the building of the 1870s. construction, which was built according to the project of IF Tibo-Brinol in the part of the city where the noble families settled, and belonged to the distant relative of the writer.
Orel Military History Museum
Orel, ul. Normandy-Neman, 1 
The Military History Museum is a branch of the Orel Regional Museum. The premises of the museum are located in the former house of the merchant Chikin, entered in the list of cultural heritage. In front of the building there are samples of military equipment, and inside the museum you can estimate the vast collection of cold steel.
Orel Regional Museum
Orel, ul. Lounge, 2 
Local History Museum is one of the oldest in Orel and the region. It was founded by the Oryol Scientific Commission in 1897, and at that time it was among the first provincial museums of the state. Today the collection of the museum includes more than 170 thousand artifacts, somehow connected with the history of the region.
Orel Museum of Fine Arts
Orel, ul. Oktyabrskaya, d 29 
The Museum of Fine Arts Eagle has a surprisingly diverse collection. Here you can see the art works of foreign and domestic masters, Russian and Soviet, as well as examples of modern and decorative and applied art.
Monument to NS Leskov in Orel
Orel, ul. Karachevskaya 
In a very beautiful place of the city of Oryol (the historical center), on the Arts Square, where a small park is located near Orlik around the Michael-Arkhangelsk church, on June 11, 1981 to 150 year anniversary of Nikolai Semenovich Leskov, an unusual literary monument was erected.
Saburov fortress
Orel oblast, p. Saburovo 
Not far from the Eagle, ten kilometers to the southeast, in the village of Saburovo there is Saburovskaya fortress worthy of attention, built by Count Mikhail Fedotovich Kamensky (1738-1908) on an area of eighteen hectares .
Svyato-Vvedensky nunnery in Orel
Orel, ul. 92 
In Zheleznodorozhny district of the city of Oryol there is one of its main attractions - the current Holy Vvedensky women's monastery, created in 1685 and having a long and glorious past. Initially, he settled on the left bank of the Orlik River, where there was an ancient Afanasyevsky churchyard.
Square "Noble's Nest" in Orel
Orel, ul. Oktyabrskaya, 9 
During the reign of Ivan VI, Russia was often attacked by Crimean Tatars. In order to protect the state borders, a city was to be built by the decree of the tsar. They became Orel, a glorious city of Russia, one of the cultural centers of the country, a place of literary and other bright talents.
Grocery store (Gostiny Dvor) in Orel
Orel, ul. Living room, 2 
Practically in every Russian city there were trading rows, the most interpretive places, similar to the Moscow Okhotny Ryad, where live animals were on sale. Eagle also did not lag behind in this respect. All these wooden structures were often fired, then rebuilt - and so on without end.
Eagle - the city in which the first salute in honor of liberation from the fascist invaders sounded, a calm, provincial but absolutely modern, spreading along both banks of the Oka River, 368 km south of Moscow, a Russian literary nest associated with the names of the famous writers-natives of the Eagle : IS Turgenev, NS Leskov, VA Rusanov, MM Prishvin, LN Andreev, AA Fet and others.
Eagle was founded in 1566 at the confluence of the Orlik River in the Oka, a settlement on which existed in the 12th century. By order of the tsar, a fortress was built here in order to strengthen the southern Russian borders. According to legend, the eagle flew over the deforestation during the erection of the fortress, and the settlers decided that the city would be named after the proud bird.
The Crimean Tatars repeatedly attacked the fortress, it was ravaged by Polish-Lithuanian troops in the 17th century, but it remained unshakable .Later, the Eagle lost its defensive importance, but became a cultural, commercial, industrial, and later regional center .During the Great Patriotic War, Orel experienced terrible years of fascist occupation .The inhabitants of this wonderful glorious city are very careful about their past .Tourists will have something to see in Orel, rich in historical and modern sights: interesting museums, picturesque streets and embankments, literary places, ancient churches and many other interesting things .
At the site of the ancient settlement and the foundation of the city, where Oka and Orlik merge, now there is a small square and established in 1966 by a joint project of sculptor A. N. Burganov and architect R. K. Topurizde in honor of the four hundredth anniversary of the city memorial complex - meter granite obelisk with carved the most important historical dates of the Eagle.
Nearby, on the picturesque bank of the river, stands the oldest church - Epiphany Cathedral. At first it was a wooden church (1642) that was burned down during a fire in 1680. Later the church was built of stone, it was repeatedly completed, and in Soviet times it was closed. There were warehouses in it, then the puppet theater worked for a long time, and since 1994 the Epiphany Cathedral was again transferred to the church.
The existing temple, which until today is still being restored, is interesting both in appearance and in interior decoration. In Orel, there are many other beautiful temples: the Church of Michael the Archangel (1722), the Nikolo-Peskovsky Church (1790), etc. Magnificent cathedrals, churches and monasteries are the main attractions of the city.
Of the ten Orel museums - six literary, which attracts the city admirers of Russian classics. Those who are used to quiet rest, can visit theaters, take a walk in parks and squares, decorated with monuments to remarkable people. In the national park "Orel Polissya", bewitching its beauty, on a vast territory contains many animals and birds in almost natural conditions of large and spacious enclosures.
In Orel there are monuments of Russian manor culture: the museum-estate Spasskoe-Lutovinovo and Saburovo-Kamenskoe, surrounded by a magnificent park zone.
The city's cultural heritage includes the Fomichevs 'wooden house, the governors' house, the Rodina cinema and other buildings that each have their own unique history and significance.
Rest in Orel with its rich past brings a lot of pleasure to tourists who decided to visit this wonderful Russian city.