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Izhevsk is the capital of the Udmurt Republic in Russia, on the Izh River west of the Ural Mountains, famous as the Armory Capital of Russia and home of the Kalashnikov rifle. Its top sights are the Kalashnikov Museum, the Arsenal with the National Museum, St. Michael's Cathedral and Izhevsk Pond.
Izhevsk dates its founding to 10 April 1760, when serfs began a dam on the Izh for an ironworks of Count Pyotr Shuvalov. Building of the arms factory began on 10 June 1807, the town's second birth, and from 1948 its Izhmash plant made the AK-47 rifle. It was called Ustinov from 1984 to 1987.
Izhevsk has over 600,000 people, the most in Udmurtia, and became capital of the Udmurt republic in 1934. Its esplanade runs from the Friendship of Peoples Monument by the pond to Central Square. Long a closed city for its weapons industry, it is served by buses, trolleybuses and trams, with Izhevsk Airport to the east of the city.
Kalashnikov Museum is the museum and exhibition complex of small arms in Izhevsk, Russia, named after designer Mikhail Kalashnikov and set south of Central Square. Founded on 20 March 1996, it opened in its new building on 4 November 2004 for his 85th birthday and tells Izhevsk's arms story.
National Museum of Udmurtia, named after Kuzebay Gerd, is the main history museum of Izhevsk, Russia, founded in November 1920 as the Izhevsk museum of the local region. It occupies the classical Arsenal of the Izhevsk arms factory, designed by Semyon Dudin, on Kommunarov Street.
Udmurt Museum of Fine Arts is the art museum of the Udmurt Republic on Kirov Street in Izhevsk, Russia, opened on 29 October 1980 for the republic's 60th anniversary. Starting from 565 works taken from the local history museum, its collection had grown to 11,345 items by 2012.
General's House, the house of the Izhevsk works chief, is a mansion on Militsionnaya Street in Izhevsk, Russia, built in 1854 to 1857 to a design by Ivan Kokovikhin on the high bank of the pond. It got its name because the arms factory's heads held general's rank, and faces the Summer Garden.
St. Michael's Cathedral is the Orthodox cathedral of the Izhevsk diocese in Izhevsk, Russia, standing 67 m high on one of the city's highest points, Krasnaya Square. It rises on the site of the factory cemetery used from 1765, where a Trinity chapel and later church stood until a fire in 1810.
Izhevsk Alexander Nevsky Cathedral is an Orthodox church in Izhevsk, Russia, built in 1823 on the model of St. Andrew's Cathedral in Kronstadt by architect Andreyan Zakharov. Closed in 1929 and used as the Koloss cinema, it was returned to the church in 1990 and was the see from 1994 to 2017.
Friendship of Peoples Monument is a 46 m monument in Izhevsk, Russia, opened on 26 June 1972 for the 400th anniversary of Udmurtia joining Russia. Two steel-clad pylons stand for Udmurtia and Russia, with gilded copper reliefs of working life, at the western end of the city's esplanade.
Izhevsk Dam is the 18th-century dam of the Izhevsk arms factory in Izhevsk, Russia, built on the Izh River from 10 April 1760 under engineer Alexey Moskvin to power the ironworks. That date is taken as the city's founding, and the dam, one of the first in the Urals, is a federal monument.
Izhevsk Pond is the reservoir created in 1760 on the Izh River in Izhevsk, Russia, dammed on 10 April that year to drive the machines of the ironworks. Several hundred serfs dug its trenches and hauled some 60,000 tonnes of clay, and four other rivers and a stream now flow into it.
Gorky Summer Garden is one of the main and oldest parks of Izhevsk, Russia, in the historic centre on the bank of Izhevsk Pond. Laid out in 1857 around the General's House where the arms factory chiefs lived, it was closed to ordinary residents and was opened to all after the 1917 revolution.
Kirov Park is a park of culture and leisure in the Oktyabrsky district of Izhevsk, Russia, created by factory workers in a forest from September 1933 and opened on 8 August 1934. It gained a Green Theatre by the pond and a parachute tower in 1935, and today it also holds the zoo.
Izhevsk Zoo, the Zoo of Udmurtia, is the state zoological park in Kirov Park in Izhevsk, Russia, opened in 2008 on 16 hectares. Its animals, from savanna dwellers to Arctic species, live in settings close to nature, separated from visitors by strong glass and grouped by region and landscape.
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