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It was such great experience! The tour around the grounds of Trinity was amazing, our guide was a 3rd Yr student of Trinity, who was so witty, funny, knowledgeable and passionate – it was an absolute pleasure to listen to him. The Book of Kells itself and the Old Library were not guided but breathtaking all the same.

November 2022

Impressive University, rich architecture and amazing history. Real students enjoying the fantastic structure of the campus!

This was a must see on my Dublin visit having read plenty of Sally Rooney and Tana French where the college plays a role. The guided tour from a student, Connor, was excellent. As a third year student he was very knowledgeable and gave us a real insight into the history of the college with lots of fun tales too. The Book of Kells exhibition is also a must. An amazing book. And then there’s the library – oh wow! Stunning.

October 2022

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Trinity College Dublin is Ireland’s leading University. Located in the heart of Dublin City Centre, the 47 acre University campus is filled with leafy, cobblestone squares and iconic architecture. Download the Visit Trinity App and get access to immersive walking tours and audio guides that bring the fascinating heritage of Trinity College to life. Explore Trinity’s ancient buildings, unearth its hidden gems, learn about famous past students and get insight in to Trinity’s world renowned research and innovation. The Visit Trinity App includes everything you need to know about visiting Trinity College, with up to date information on accommodation, visitor experiences and dining on campus.Get exclusive access to special offers and discounts and use the app to get the most out of your visit to Trinity.

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Does not work well.

They ask you to download this app to get the book of kells tour. Of the 12 “stops” only 4 worked for me. I dumped and re-downloaded the app. It did not help. The good news is, there is pleanty of printed information within the book of kells exhibit to get a good understanding of the history of the book.

So-so experience

If you buy a ticket to the Book of Kells Experience in advance, the system now sends you a suggestion to bring your own headphones along, which is the only reason I did, so I at least appreciate that. But according to their own materials, the app is supposed to trigger audio when you get near a relevant point and on my iPhone that never once happened. There are also no signs telling you when you’ve reached an audio point (as is typical at museums/sites with audio guides) so it took me at least ten minutes in the extremely crowded exhibition before I realized it was completely up to me to regularly check the app to try to figure out if I was at an audio point. The content itself is good (albeit not as in-depth as I personally would have expected) but even with noise-canceling AirPods, I had to turn the volume to maximum and still sometimes had difficulty hearing as there were fellow visitors listening to the audio guide on speakerphone and no staff ever asked them to stop.

App works perfectly fine

I don’t know why there are so many negative reviews. My sister and I both downloaded and used this app with no problems while visiting Trinity College and during the Book of Kells tour. Also there is wifi inside where the Book of Kells is. You might wanna download the app before you arrive but it is not a necessity.

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Trinity is a member of eduroam ( edu cational  roam ing), a secure, world-wide wireless access service developed for the international research and educational community.

Visitors to Trinity from participating institutions can connect to eduroam using their home institution’s login credentials. Join the eduroam network that appears in your wireless networks. Access to Trinity and home institution resources may be restricted. Contact your home institution if you have difficulty logging on.

Trinity faculty, staff and students can connect to eduroam and have the same experience. If you are traveling or studying abroad, you may access wireless at any participating eduroam institution. Please note that you must logon the first time here on Trinity’s campus eduroam wifi before you may use eduroam at other institutions.

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• [email protected] (not just username)
• your Trinity password

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Connecting Chromebooks to eduroam

Chromebooks cannot connect to eduroam automatically, but must be manually set up instead:

• From the  WiFi menu, select  eduroam
• EAP Method:  PEAP
• Phase 2 Authentication:  MSCHAPv2
• Server CA Certificate : Do not check
• Identity : [email protected]
• Password:  Your Trinity password
• Anonymous Identity : <Leave blank>
• Check the box  Save Identity and Password  to save your credentials, and click the  Connect  button.
• Accept the eduroam certificate if you’re prompted.

I upgraded my Android phone to OS 11 and now I’m having trouble connecting to eduroam.

Android released new features for private WiFi addresses and certificates. Before re-registering the device:

• EAP method: PEAP
• Phase 2 authentication: MSCHAPV2
• CA certificate: Use system certificates
• Online Certificate Status: Do Not Verify
• Domain: cc.trincoll.edu
• Identity: [email protected]
• Anonymous Identity: <Leave blank>

I reset my password and can no longer connect to eduroam.

• Turn you wifi off.
• Search on your Mac for the Keychain Access app and open it.
• In the Keychain Access window, search for eduroam . Double click to open it.
• In the eduroam window, check the box Show password and edit your password.
• Note that you will be prompted to enter your Mac password to save these changes in your Mac settings (not your Trinity password).
• Close all windows and turn wifi on to reconnect to eduroam.

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Student and Employee Personal Devices

• Right click on the eduroam wifi and select Forget network .
• Restart device. Go to Networks, select eduroam and connect. You will be prompted to enter your new password.

Employees With College-Issued Laptops

There is an additional step to reset the login Windows password (the password you enter when you turn the computer on).

If you are on campus:

• Turn off wifi. Turn off laptop, and connect it to an Ethernet cable. Turn computer on.
• Upon restart, enter your new password on login.
• You may unplug the Ethernet cable and turn off wifi. Follow the steps above to Forget the eduroam network and be prompted for your new password for wifi.

If you are off campus:

• After resetting your password, connect to VPN . Stay connected to VPN for several minutes until prompted to enter your new Windows password.
• Restart and your Windows login password should be changed to your new one.
• The next time you are back on campus, follow the steps above to Forget the eduroam network and be prompted for your new password for wifi.

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Trinity offers a guest wireless service to alumni for short-term internet access for accessing email and other internet-enabled services from their personal laptops, netbooks, tablets and smartphones during their visit to TCD campus. To gain access to guest Wi-Fi, please contact [email protected] with your name, email address and current postal address. You will then receive a username and password which you will need to connect to Wi-Fi on campus. This information, once activated, will only be active for a set period of time – the maximum is 30 days. Unless specified, your username and password will be active for 30 days. Your Campus Wi-Fi username and password will only be activated when you enter your username and password into your device. Terms and Conditions For more information, including details on system requirements, please visit Trinity's Guest Wi-Fi Service and consult the terms and conditions .

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Trinity network connections for Fellows, Other Senior Members and Students

Wired trinity connections (college accommodation/office occupants).

All Fellow’s and student’s rooms in College have access to a wireless point or computer network point (an ethernet socket) that can be used to connect to the internet via an ethernet cable. A wired connection will be more reliable and provide a better connection speed than a wireless connection. Some devices may require an Ethernet adapter in order to make use of the wired network.

Registering from the device you want to add to the network:

What you will need:

• To have a Raven account and have the details of this ready
• To have a device that can connect to networks using an ethernet cable (and adapter if applicable)
• To have located the Ethernet port in your College room
• To have an Ethernet cable that is under 5 meters long
• To have read all the Policies and Terms & Conditions of connection to the College Network (also available on the initial connection portal)

How to Connect:

• Find the Ethernet port in your room
• Plug the Ethernet cable into the ethernet port in your room
• Connect the other end of the cable to the ethernet port on your device directly or with an adapter if required (which must be purchased at your own cost)
• After a few seconds, your device should prompt you to log into the network
• Click ‘Login to network’ to open the login page in your device’s preferred browser
• Select ‘Raven Login’ and provide your raven credentials when prompted
• Click Login
• Unplug the ethernet cable from your device, wait 10 seconds and reconnect the cable to the device
• You will now be connected to the wired network on this device

Wireless Trinity Network

• To have a device that can connect to Wi-Fi networks
• To have disabled any MAC randomiser settings on the device (see troubleshooting)

On the device you wish to connect to the network:

• Open wireless network settings and select ‘TRIN-REGISTRATION’ from the list of available Select Wireless Networks
• Click ‘Login to this network’
• Click ‘Raven Login’ to login using your Raven login
• When given the success confirmation page, return to your device’s wireless settings and select ‘TRIN-WIFI’ from the list of available Wireless Networks
• Enter the network password when prompted : NewtonsApple
• You are now connected on this device

Troubleshooting

To connect to the College wifi (TRIN-WIFI) your device must connect to both the TRIN-REGISTRATION and TRIN-WIFI SSIDs with the same device MAC address. If you find you have connected to TRIN-REGISTRATION but can’t then connect to TRIN-WIFI please check these settings:

Android (exact details may differ depending on device):

• Connect to TRIN-REGISTRATION
• Login to the portal
• Look at the details for TRIN-REGISTRATION and change the setting from Randomised MAC address to Use device MAC/Use Phone MAC
• The portal should open again – login.
• Then when connecting to TRIN-WIFI you should be able to select Use device Mac before connecting
• Once connected to TRIN-WIFI choose to forget the TRIN-REGISTRATION network

See also: Apple support pages for screenshots

• Before connecting to TRIN-REGISTRATION and TRIN-WIFI, select further information for each SSID (the i in a circle next to the name)
• Turn off Use private address
• Connect to TRIN-WIFI

Windows 10:

• Select the Start button, then select Settings > Network & Internet > Wi-Fi
• Turn off Use random hardware addresses

Adding a device manually to the wired or wireless network, that cannot be added using the method(s) above:

• Know the MAC address of the device you wish to add – What’s this?

For adding wired devices you will also need the following:

Use a device, which is already connected to ‘TRIN WIFI’ to

• Browse to the Manual Device Management Site ( https://devices.trin.private.cam.ac.uk/ )
• Log in using your Raven credentials
• Enter a name for the device you wish to add to the network e.g. ‘myxbox’
• For adding a Wireless device, you will need to use the wireless MAC address and for wired, the wired MAC address.
• Click ‘Save’
• Using the device you have just added to the manual registration site , select ‘TRIN-WIFI’ from the list of available Select Wireless Networks
• Enter the network password ‘NewtonsApple’
• Find the ethernet port in your room
• Plug the Ethernet cable which was provided to you by the accommodation office on your arrival in your first year to the ethernet port in your room
• Using the device you have just added to the manual registration, connect the other end of the ethernet cable to your device directly or with an adapter if required (which is purchased at your own cost)

We also provide eduroam in the same places we provide Trin-WIFI .  Details for connecting to eduroam can be found on the UIS pages

Wireless networks at Trinity – Staff connection

• To have a Trinity Account and have the details of this ready

How to connect your personal device to the College Wi-Fi:

• Open the wireless network settings
• Select ‘TRIN-REGISTRATION’ from the list of available wireless networks
• When prompted, click ‘Login to this network’
• Click ‘Staff Login’
• Use your Trinity Account login details to fill out the username and password fields
• Click ‘Log In’
• When given the success confirmation page, return to your device’s wireless settings
• Now select ‘TRIN-WIFI’ from the list of available Wireless Networks
• Enter the network password when prompted: NewtonsApple

Wireless networks at Trinity – Guest connection

• To be an individual not formally associated with the organisation but to whom services are being provided under the organisation’s missions, such as access to its library or similar resources.
• Have your Network Authorisation Details sheet ready

On the device you wish to connect:

• Open wireless network settings
• Select ‘ TRIN-GUEST ’ from the list of available Wireless Networks
• When prompted, click ‘ Login to this network ’
• Enter your username and password from your Network Authorisation Details in the two boxes and click ‘Submit’
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Omsk is one of the largest cities in Russia, a major scientific, cultural, sports, transport, and industrial center. The administrative center of Omsk Oblast, it is the second most populous city in Siberia.

The population of Omsk is about 1,126,000 (2022), the area - 567 sq. km.

The phone code - +7 3812, the postal codes - 644000-644246.

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History of Omsk

Foundation of omsk.

The need to build a Russian fortress on the banks of the Irtysh at the mouth of the Om River arose in connection with the steppe nomadic peoples. In particular, with the Oirats, whose tribes in the first decades of the 17th century began to appear within the borders of the Russian state being under the onslaught of their external enemies and as a result of internal civil strife. However, various foreign and domestic political problems of Russia hindered the development and defense of the South Siberian borders.

The situation changed only at the beginning of the 18th century, when the Russian conquest of Siberia intensified. Since Peter I paid great attention to geographical research in the south, the expeditions of that time combined socio-political tasks and tasks of scientific research.

One of such expeditions was led by the Russian military and statesman, associate of Peter I, Major General Ivan Bukhgolts. The goals of the expedition, numbering about 3,000 people, were to search for ore and gold deposits, the discovery of trade routes to India and China, as well as the construction of towns on the Irtysh River.

The expedition left Tobolsk to the south along the Irtysh in July 1715. In the spring of 1716, after a conflict with the Dzungars in the north of today’s Kazakhstan, the remnants of the expedition (about 700 people) withdrew to the mouth of the Om River, where they laid a new fortress named Omsky ostrog (fortified settlement).

According to the census of 1725, 992 people lived in the fortress, in 1742 - 1,092 people. From the first years of its existence, it served as a place of exile for prisoners. After serving hard labor and imprisonment, a lot of them stayed in Omsk for permanent residence.

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Omsk in the second half of the 18th century

The ethnic composition of the region’s population was formed in the process of settling the territory. Russians, Germans, Ukrainians, Poles, Belarusians, and representatives of many other nationalities were sent here to serve or were exiled. The indigenous people of the region were the Siberian Tatars and Kazakhs, who switched to a sedentary lifestyle.

The foundation of the second Omsk fortress took place in 1762. The first fortress, although it occupied a favorable geographical position, was wooden and, by the middle of the 18th century, it was dilapidated. In 1765, new stone fortifications were constructed. The first stone structure of the fortress was the Resurrection Military Cathedral, built in 1773 and preserved to this day.

In the end of the 18th century, the Omsk fortress was one of the largest structures in the eastern part of the Russian Empire, its area was more than 30 hectares. In 1782, it was transformed into a town named Omsk within the Tobolsk Governorate. In 1785, the coat of arms of Omsk was approved.

Omsk became the center of management of the Siberian transport routes and the Siberian Cossack army, which not only guarded the South Siberian borders, but also made a huge contribution to the economic development of the steppe expanses of Kazakhstan, the annexation of Central Asia to the Russian Empire.

Omsk in the 19th century

The fire of 1819 destroyed almost half of the town including the archive and the magistrate of Omsk with all the first archival documents. Therefore information about the life of Omsk in the 18th - early 19th centuries is scarce and fragmentary. In 1825, the population of the town was about 9,000 people.

In 1829, the town’s development plan was approved. It was made by the famous Petersburg architect V.I. Geste, who took the city of St. Petersburg as a model with its wide avenues, huge neighborhoods, fountains, cast-iron bridges, and an abundance of green spaces.

The composition of the population of Omsk was not quite usual. In the middle of the 19th century, since Omsk was the center of the military and civil administration, the proportion of the military in the local population reached about 60%.

Fyodor Dostoevsky (one of the greatest psychological novelists in world literature), who served a term of hard labor in the Omsk prison in 1850-1854, in a letter to his brother gave Omsk the following description: “Omsk is a disgusting town. There are almost no trees. In summer, heat and wind with sand, in winter, a snowstorm. I have not seen nature. The town is dirty, military and highly depraved.”

By the second half of the 19th century, Omsk in its development outstripped many steppe towns and became not only an administrative, but also a commercial and industrial center. In 1861, in Omsk, there were 2,122 houses (31 stone houses), 34 factories and plants, about 20 thousand residents.

In 1892, the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway began, which gave a new impetus to the economy of Siberian towns and positively influenced Omsk. The development of the Trans-Siberian Railway caused an increase in the urban population due to migrants who came to work from the central part of the Russian Empire. According to the 1897 census, 37.3 thousand people lived in Omsk. The town had 14 streets with a total length of more than 140 km and 13 squares.

Omsk in the first half of the 20th century

The beginning of the 20th century was a time of great changes for Siberia. Mass peasant colonization caused a sharp leap in the development of the region’s economy, primarily its agrarian sector, and the Trans-Siberian Railway ensured the inclusion of the local economy in the system of the All-Russian and European markets.

Due to its favorable economic and geographical position - at the intersection of the railway and the Irtysh River, in the middle of a vast agricultural territory - Omsk quickly turned into a large transport, trade and industrial center of Western Siberia and Governor-Generalship of the Steppes (Eastern and Central Kazakhstan).

Wholesale trade in bread, butter and other agricultural products was concentrated here. Omsk also became one of the industrial, social and cultural centers of Western Siberia. By 1903, the city’s population grew to 60 thousand people. In 1914, it had about 134.8 thousand residents. Omsk became the most populous city in Siberia.

During the Civil War on the territory of the former Russian Empire, from June 1918 to November 1919, Omsk was the residence of the Supreme Ruler of Russia, Admiral Alexander Kolchak, who declared this city the capital of white Russia opposing red Russia of the Bolsheviks. Soviet power was finally established in the city in 1920.

In the summer of 1921, an event took place that had a decisive impact on the cultural and economic life of Omsk. The functions of the administrative center of Siberia were transferred from it to the city of Novonikolaevsk (future Novosibirsk). In 1934, Omsk became the administrative center of a separate Omsk Oblast.

Over the years of industrialization, Omsk became one of the largest centers for agricultural engineering in the USSR. The metal-working industry also developed at a rapid pace. In 1939, Omsk numbered more than 288 thousand people.

During the Second World War, about 200 industrial enterprises were evacuated to Omsk, as well as 60 hospitals, dozens of educational institutions, theaters, museums, and hundreds of thousands of refugees.

Omsk after the Second World War

In the post-war years, new enterprises were put into operation in Omsk, all existing factories and plants were reconstructed and expanded. The industrial potential of the city was also strengthened by the Omsk oil refinery, the largest in the country. In connection with the rapid development of industry, especially petrochemical enterprises, the ecological situation deteriorated. The concentration of harmful substances in the air sharply increased. In 1964, the population of Omsk was about 702 thousand people.

In the 1970s-1980s, Omsk developed rapidly. In 1975, the city’s population exceeded 1 million. The most pressing problem was the ecological situation. Omsk was in the top 10 cities of Russia in terms of environmental pollution. Another problem that required an immediate solution was the development of passenger transport. The capacity of Omsk streets was exhausted, and therefore the construction of the subway became an urgent issue.

The economic crisis that gripped Russia after the collapse of the USSR had a negative impact on the economy of Omsk and the region as a whole. There was a significant decline in industrial production, construction volumes fell, and unemployment rose. A lot of organizations of the defense complex, research institutes, and design bureaus found themselves in a deep crisis without the state defense order.

The share of mechanical engineering and metalworking, light industry, and, to a lesser extent, chemical and petrochemical, forestry and woodworking industries decreased. At the same time, the share of the fuel industry, energy, and construction materials industry began to grow.

In the 2000s, Omsk again became one of the most important economic centers of Western Siberia with a developing mechanical engineering, petrochemical industry, various branches of the woodworking, construction industry, and a highly productive agro-industrial complex. In recent years, Omsk has also acquired the features of one of the largest Siberian centers of entrepreneurship and banking/financial activities.

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Yak-9 fighter aircraft in front of the aerospace engineering company Polyot in Omsk

The Omsk Cadet Corps

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Omsk - Features

Omsk is located in the south of the West Siberian Plain at the confluence of the Om River into the Irtysh, about 150 km from the border of Russia with Kazakhstan. About 60% of all residents of Omsk Oblast live in Omsk. The City Day of Omsk is celebrated on the first Saturday of August.

The city’s coat of arms is very similar to the first coat of arms of Omsk approved by Empress Catherine II in 1785. It depicts a part of the brick fortifications, which symbolizes the reason for its foundation as a fortress and the center of the Siberian defensive line.

Omsk belongs to the temperate climatic zone with a continental climate of the forest-steppe of the West Siberian belt. It is distinguished by an abundance of sunlight. The average air temperature in January is minus 16.3 degrees Celsius, in July - plus 19.6 degrees Celsius. The highest wind speeds are observed in winter and spring, which is the reason for frequent snow and dust storms.

In the past, the ecological situation in Omsk was very unfavorable. Since 2011, the city’s environmental development rating has increased significantly. This was the result of large-scale modernization of many large industries (including the Omsk oil refinery). Today, road transport is the main source of air pollution in the city.

The level of pollution of the Omsk rivers - Irtysh and Om - remains consistently high. Swimming in them is prohibited. While industrial effluents are becoming more environmentally friendly, sewers are releasing waste products including diesel fuel and petroleum products into the rivers. Dust raised by dust storms is also a serious problem for the city as it contains a lot of harmful substances including lead.

The city’s industry is based on oil refining, petrochemistry, chemical industry, mechanical engineering (production of aerospace equipment, armored vehicles, agricultural equipment). Omsk is a major transport junction - the Trans-Siberian Railway runs through the city from west to east, and the navigable Irtysh River crosses it from south to north. Omsk Airport offers regular flights to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Tyumen, Surgut, Yekaterinburg, Krasnoyarsk, Salekhard, Kazan, Krasnodar, Sochi.

The unfinished subway of Omsk has become famous in Russia thanks to its only one fully built station. Its construction began back in 1992. However, due to funding problems, the completion of the first line was postponed numerous times. In 2019, it was finally decided to permanently stop construction. For local residents, because of the long wait for the completion of the construction, the Omsk metro symbolizes unrealizable hopes, they talk about it with irony.

In Omsk, there are practically no buildings higher than 50 meters, according to this parameter it is one of the lowest cities with a population of over one million. 130 architectural monuments are concentrated in the central part of the city, almost half of the total number.

Main Attractions of Omsk

Dormition Cathedral - the largest church in Omsk located in the very center of the city. The original church was built in 1891-1898. In 1935, it was completely destroyed. In 2005-2007, an exact copy of the building was restored in its original place. This is one of the most beautiful buildings in Omsk. At night, the building is illuminated and looks especially majestic. Tarskaya Street, 7.

Irtysh Embankment - the main walking street of Omsk with a picturesque view of the Irtysh River. Built in the middle of the 20th century, the embankment was reconstructed in the 2000s. You can walk along the alley on foot, ride rollerblades or a bike.

Merchant Batyushkin’s Mansion (1902). This architectural monument is located on the Irtysh Embankment. It is also known as the Kolchak’s House because Alexander Kolchak, the Supreme Ruler of Russia, lived in this building in 1919. One part of the building is occupied by the registry office of the Central District of Omsk. The Center for the Study of the History of the Russian Civil War is also open here. Irtyshskaya Naberezhnaya Street, 9.

Omsk State Museum of History and Local Lore - one of the oldest museums in Siberia and Russia founded in 1878. In total, this museum has over 200 thousand various objects of cultural, historical and artistic value. The museum is especially proud of such exhibits as the cast-iron figures of the Chinese lions Shi-Tzu, presented to the museum from China in 1895, as well as the skeleton of a woolly mammoth almost 3 meters high. Lenina Street, 23?.

Omsk Regional Museum of Fine Arts named after M.A. Vrubel - one of the largest museums of fine arts in Siberia. It has collections of foreign and Russian art from antiquity to the present day. In total, there are over 22 thousand works by painters, graphic artists and sculptors, as well as more than 1.5 thousand rare folios.

Walking through the exhibition halls, you can admire the canvases of Shishkin, Aivazovsky, Surikov, Repin, Serov, Vereshchagin. The exhibition of rare icons dating from the 17th-20th centuries is of constant interest among visitors, as well as a unique collection of jewelry made of precious metals found in the Scythian and Sarmatian burial mounds. Two buildings of the museum are located at Lenina Street 3 and 23.

In November 2019, a new exhibition was opened in a historical building at Muzeynaya Street, 4 - the exhibition of art of the 20th-21st centuries. The Hermitage-Siberia Center is located here too - the first representation of The State Hermitage Museum (the second-largest art museum in the world) beyond the Urals.

Chokana Valikhanova Street - a pedestrian street located in the historic part of Omsk. The street is decorated with abstract architectural forms, flower beds, wrought-iron lanterns. The walking area ends with an observation deck with a picturesque view of the Irtysh River.

Museum of Kondraty Belov . The museum of this landscape painter born in Omsk can be found in a picturesque wooden house, which is considered one of the most interesting architectural monuments of Omsk. The exposition tells about the life and work of Kondraty Belov, as well as about the history of the building itself.

In total, this museum has about 700 exhibits. The permanent exhibition also includes works by Kondraty Belov’s son Stanislav and paintings by some other local artists. In addition, temporary exhibitions of contemporary Omsk artists are regularly held here. Chokana Valikhanova Street, 10.

Plumber Stepanych Monument - an unusual sculpture located in the center of Omsk, which you can literally stumble upon while walking along Lenin Street between the houses #12 and #14. Leaning out of the hatch, the plumber is depicted as realistic and life-size as possible. It is among the most photographed monuments in Omsk. There is a similar sculpture in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.

Lyuba Monument . This sculpture, located on the opposite side of Lenin Street from the monument to the plumber Stepanych, is especially loved by Omsk residents and tourists, who love to be photographed against its background.

This beauty in a lace dress with a neckline and a crinoline sitting on an openwork bench and reading a novel had a real prototype - Lyubov (diminutively Lyuba or Lyubasha) Gasford, the wife of the Governor-General of Siberia, who lived in Omsk in the 19th century and died at a young age due to illness. One of the streets of Omsk and the park are named in her memory. She is a local symbol of femininity and beauty.

Omsk Fire Tower - a picturesque architectural monument built at the beginning of the 20th century. Inside the tower there are museum expositions dedicated to the local fire brigade and the history of tower construction. Internatsionalnaya Street, 41?.

Park of Culture and Rest named after the 30th anniversary of the Komsomol - a popular place for walks, recreation and entertainment of Omsk residents and tourists, which has retained “the spirit of the Soviet era” in its name. Today, on an area of 73 hectares, several zones have been organized, various types of recreation are presented. There are walking alleys, ponds, water activities, for example, riding on hydro-scooters.

The ice town is open in winter, the Return of the Dinosaurs exhibition - in summer. The “House Upside Down” exposition is also popular with tourists. This park is a place for mass festivities, city celebrations and events. Maslenitsa, Christmas, City Day, and other holidays are celebrated here. Maslennikova Street, 136.

Natural Park “Bird Harbor” - a specially protected area located on the path of bird migration in the central part of Omsk. During autumn flights, up to 3 thousand birds stop here for rest. It is a great place to enjoy nature, walk along the eco-trail, and observe the life of birds. The park is situated in the floodplain on the left bank of the Irtysh River next to the Victory Park on Yeniseyskaya Street.

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Bogdan Khmelnitsky Monument in Omsk

Lenin Monument in Omsk

Churches of Omsk

Chapel of St. George in Omsk

Cathedral of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Omsk

Cathedral of the Nativity in Omsk

Sights of Omsk

Fountain with frogs in the park next to the main building of the Agricultural Academy in Omsk

Author: Alexey Pavlov

Church of St. Nicholas in Omsk

Exaltation of the Holy Cross Cathedral in Omsk

Author: Stanislav Vosinsky

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