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KONCHAEV FIREFIGHTING EQUIPMENT COLLECTION. Established by the State Firefighting Service of the St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region Main Department of Internal Affairs (73 Bolshoy Avenue of Vasilievsky Island), opened on 29 June 1957; in 1988-95
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Krasin Icebreaker Museum
KRASIN, the world's only is floating icebreaker museum, member of the International Historic Naval Ships Association. Constructed in 1916-17 on the drafts of Vice Admiral S.O
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Kronstadt Fortress
KRONSTADT FORTRESS (Kronstadt, 1 Yakornaya Square), museum, a branch of the Central Military and Naval Museum. Organised by A. A. Antipov who also acted as its first director the museum was opened on 8.5.1980 in the building of the Naval Cathedral
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Kunstkammer
KUNSTKAMMER (from German "Kunstkammer" - "chambers of curiosities, museum") (3 Universitetskaya Embankment). The oldest museum in Russia, was founded in 1714 based on the private collections of Peter the Great
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Lenexpo
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Lenin Museum
LENIN MUSEUM, operated in 1937-92 (until 1990 the museum was the Leningrad branch of the Central Lenin Museum in Moscow) in the Marble Palace, where by the early 1990s 34 halls showed over 10,000 various exhibits
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Leningrad Defence and Blockade Museum
LENINGRAD DEFENCE AND BLOCKADE MUSEUM, State Memorial (9 Solyanoy Lane) was established in the early 1942 by the decree of the Military Soviet of the Leningrad Front and of the City Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) as the
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Literatorskie (Literary) Mostki, the museum-necropolis
LITERATORSKIE (LITERARY) MOSTKI (30 Rasstannaya Street). A museum-necropolis on the territory of the Volkovskoe Orthodox Cemetery (in the northeastern section; the square covers 7
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M. M. Zoshchenko Literary Memorial Museum
M. M. ZOSHCHENKO LITERARY MEMORIAL MUSEUM (4/2 M. Konyushennaya Street), opened in 1992. Founded upon a joint initiative of St. Petersburg literary figures, the museum was located in the house where M. M
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M. V. Lomonosov Museum
M. V. LOMONOSOV MUSEUM (3 University Embankment) opened in 1949 within the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (becoming a branch of the museum in 1994) in the Kunstkammer building, where in 1741-65 M. V
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Mendeleev Museum Archive
MENDELEEV MUSEUM ARCHIVE of St. Petersburg State University (2 Mendeleevskaya Line), founded in 1911 upon the initiative of D. I. Mendeleev's students and colleagues occupies three rooms on the ground floor of the Twelve Colleges building
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Military Historical Museum of the Artillery, Engineering and Signal Corps
MILITARY HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF THE ARTILLERY, ENGINEERING AND SIGNAL CORPS of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation, located at 7 Alexandrovsky Park
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Militia History Museum
MILITIA HISTORY MUSEUM of the Main Department of Internal Affairs of St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region situated at 12 Poltavskaya Street. Founded in 1976, it received its present-day name in 1991
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Mining Museum
MINING MUSEUM of the St. Petersburg State Mining Institute, at 2 Twenty-First Line of Vasilievsky Island, is one of the oldest and biggest geological museums in the world
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Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography
MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY (Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Kunstkammer) (MAE) (3 University Embankment)
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Museum of Bread
MUSEUM OF BREAD (73 Ligovsky Avenue) is the only Russian museum and the 13th museum in the world dedicated to the history of bread-making. The museum was established on 5 November 1988 as a branch museum of bread-making
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Museum of Circus Art
MUSEUM OF CIRCUS ART was the Museum of Circus and Variety Art before 1965. It is the first ever and the only Russian museum of this kind. The museum is located at 3 Fontanka River Embankment
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Museum of City Sculpture
MUSEUM OF CITY SCULPTURE, State Museum of City Sculpture (STCS) (179/2 Nevsky Prospect) was organised in 1939 with the aim to keep records, provide protection and carry out restoration of major monuments
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Museum of Decorative and Applied Arts
MUSEUM OF DECORATIVE AND APPLIED ARTS, St. Petersburg Museum of Decorative and Applied Arts of Mukhina Academy of Arts and Design (13-15 Solyanoy Lane), founded in 1878 in Baron Stieglitz Academy of Technical Drawing
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Museum of History of Political Police
MUSEUM OF HISTORY OF POLITICAL POLICE (6 Admiralty Avenue /2 Gorokhovaya Street), was founded in 1974 as F. E. Dzerzhinsky’s memorial study and in 1975 became a branch of the Museum of the Great October Socialist Revolution (see Museum of Russian
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Museum of History of Religion
MUSEUM OF HISTORY OF RELIGION (14/5 Pochtamtskaya Street) is the only institution of such kind in the country. The museum dates back to the antireligious exhibition arranged in the halls of the Winter Palace in 1930
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Museum of History of Revolutionary Democratic Movement of the 1880-1890s
MUSEUM OF HISTORY OF REVOLUTIONARY DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT Of The 1880-1890s (7 Bolshoy Kazachy Lane) was established in 1992 on basis of Lenin Memorial Museum Flat which had existed since 1938. V. I
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Museum of History of the Press
ST. PETERSBURG MUSEUM OF HISTORY OF THE PRESS (32/2 Moika River Embankment), a branch of the Museum of St. Petersburg History. The Museum was opened 25.1.1984 as Lenin and Pravda Museum in the premises which from 5(18) March to 5(18) July 1917
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Museum of Hygiene
MUSEUM OF HYGIENE of the Medical Prophylaxis Centre of the Committee for Health Protection of the Administration of St. Petersburg (25 Italianskaya Street) was established in 1919 as the Museum of Health Protection
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Museum of Meteorology
MUSEUM OF METEOROLOGY of Voeykov Central Physical Observatory (7 Karbyshev Street), goes back to the collection of equipment and tools, which emerged along with the foundation of the Central Physical Observatory (1848)
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Museum of Music
MUSEUM OF MUSIC (34 Fontanka River Embankment) is a branch of the Museum of Theatre and Music Art. The Museum of Music is housed in Sheremetev Palace which was given to the museum in 1990
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Museum of Old Petersburg
MUSEUM OF OLD PETERSBURG, founded in October 1907, attached to the Society of Architects and Artists. A. N. Benois, the first director of the museum, was simultaneously at the head of a special commission for studying and describing St
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Museum of Russian Political History
MUSEUM OF RUSSIAN POLITICAL HISTORY (2-4 Kuybysheva Street) was established in 1919 as the Museum of the Revolution. The Museum of the Revolution was housed in the Winter Palace. In 1955, the mansion of Kschessinska and the adjacent mansion of V. E
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Museum of Russian Vodka
MUSEUM OF RUSSIAN VODKA situated at 5 Konnogvardeysky Boulevard, private museum. The first Russian museum in its kind, it was opened in May 2001 on the initiative of S. A. Chentsov and R. M. Shevyakov
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Museum of the Academy of Arts
MUSEUM OF THE ACADEMY OF ARTS, a science and research museum (17 University Embankment), Russia's oldest art museum, founded by I. I. Shuvalov in 1757 as a collection of samples for the students of drawing and sculpture classes at the Academy of
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