Historical and cultural center "Old Surgut"

Surgut, Energetikov, d. 2

Sights of Surgut This complex is located in the center of Surgut, on the shore of Saimaa. The historical-ethnographic center includes the territory on which 4 houses are built, copying historical wooden city buildings. Once these houses were located in different parts of Surgut.

Saimaa Park

Surgut, Saimovskaya, 1

Sights of Surgut the arch of Saima (sometimes it is also called the park "Behind Saima") - one of the most beloved among the inhabitants of Surgut. It is in the fork of the river of the same name and it is the best place in the city for winter skiing, and in the summer - for roller skates and bicycles.

Surgut Big Ben

Surgut, 8 Ostrovskogo Street

Sights of Surgut The Surgut "Big Ben" is the building of a city school for the study of foreign languages. The school itself opened in the city in 1997, and the original and beautiful building it received in 2004 In fact, this building does not exactly copy the famous London building, but the reference to it is more than obvious.

Surgut Museum of Local History

Surgut, 30 years of Victory, 21/2

Sights of Surgut It is one of the oldest museums in Surgut: it was opened in 1963 and occupied the originally wooden building of a merchant's estate, built in the late 19th century. In 1999 the museum moved to a new beautiful building, occupying two of its floors out of three.

The Surgut Art Museum

Surgut, 30 years of Victory, 21/2

Sights of Surgut Art Museum of Surgut was founded in 1992 and today can be considered the main cultural center of the city. The main emphasis in it is on the domestic art of the late 19th century. - the early 20th century, as well as the art of emigration and contemporary local authors.

The tract of Barsova Gora

Saransk, Barsova Gora

Sights of Surgut The most important object of the archaeological heritage of the country is the Barsova Gora tract. It is a unique complex of monuments of ancient settlements. Here there are more than three thousand ancient buildings, including 60 with more settlements, burial places and sanctuaries.

The Transfiguration Church in Surgut

Surgut, Melik-Karamova, 76/1

Sights of Surgut A city with a four-century history, Surgut, alas, can not boast of ancient temples: all of them were destroyed in the Soviet era. So the main temple of the city was built only in 2003 Nevertheless, this beautiful church of traditional architecture has already become the pride of the townspeople and one of the symbols of Surgut.

Yugorsky Bridge

Surgut, Yugorsky Bridge

Sights of Surgut The Surgut bridge, thrown across the Ob, is one of the longest not only in Siberia. Its length exceeds 2,100 m, and the length of the central span is more than 400 m. According to the last parameter, the Ugra bridge overtook the bridge across the Rhine.

Surgut is an industrial city, and there are not many sights here. On the other hand, there are far more of them than in the administrative center. One of the most notable sights of Surgut is the famous Ugra bridge, one of the longest in Siberia and included in the Guinness Book of Records. Its central fragment, which supports one high pylon, has a length of more than 400 m.

Another landmark of the city is the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord, which stands near a river and pretty much forms a panorama of the city. This beautiful church was built about 10 years and was completed only in 2003. The thirteen-headed church is beautiful both outside, decorated with tiles and mosaic icons, and from the inside. The 13 bells of the church also deserve attention: they were cast and brought here from Moscow itself, and the biggest bell weighs six tons.

Separate and very specific sight of Surgut is the so-called Siberian Big Ben.

The sight of a completely different kind is beyond the city limits, not far from the Ugra bridge, and its significance on a scale even in the country can not be overestimated .This is the tract of Barsova Gora, a unique archaeological and ethnographic monument .The tract is a strip of historical monuments more than eight kilometers long .Here are collected more than three thousand .ancient designs, and the oldest of them already have seven thousand .years.In Barsova Gora you can see artifacts of almost every period of human history since the Neolithic .

There are several museums in Surgut, the most noteworthy of which are the local history museum with its three branches, the art and historical and cultural center "Old Surgut". Also worthy of attention and the most modern sites: the art gallery of contemporary art "Sterkh" and the center of cultural initiatives "Port."

Curious and monuments of Surgut. The largest and most significant of them, of course, is the monument to the pioneers of Siberia and the founders of Surgut in the center of the city - a 15-meter composition consisting of figures of the prince, Cossack, voivode and priest. But in the city there are enough and less monumental monuments, which bear a more easy message. For example, this is the first in the country monument to a civilian nurse, a cult black fox at the entrance to the "Old Surgut", a modern bronze monument to the builder, quite amusing.

Separate and very specific landmark of Surgut is the so-called Siberian Big Ben. In fact, it's just a building of a school of foreign languages ​​- yes, only not "just", but copying the famous London landmark. The creators of Big Ben did not spare the forces and money to order the tower clock from the UK (they completely copy the original, only in scale 1: 3). Inside the building, in addition to the classrooms, there is a café, which, naturally, is one of the most popular in the city.