"City embankment"
All city guests are in a hurry to first visit the embankment, which is several hundred meters long. The beauty of the Volga amazes with its natural landscapes and gorgeous sunsets. The surface of the water is calming and gives excellent reflection.
All city festivals, holidays and celebrations take place in this place. Not long ago, the City Embankment was thoroughly restored. They laid a new road surface, installed carved comfortable benches, and opened a cafe where you can relax and drink coffee and have a variety of snacks.
“City Park of Culture and Leisure named after. Komsomol volunteers"
The park is another great place for a carefree holiday. Centuries-old coniferous trees grow throughout the territory, providing clean and fragrant air. This is an amazing place with gorgeous flower beds and a fountain.
On a warm summer day, visitors rush to stroll along the lilac, chestnut or oak alley. Fun rides will happily entertain little guests and provide a festive extravaganza.
"Light and music fountain"
In the center of the city there is a chic pearl - a fountain. This is not an ordinary fountain; its jets of varying heights play merrily to the rhythm of a variety of musical pieces. The fountain also has multi-colored lighting. This magnificence is especially beautiful at night. This is a great place to take photos to remember Kamyshin.
Borodinsky Bridge
The bridge over Kamyshinka has been serving the townspeople for almost 70 years. This 250-meter-long structure makes it possible for cars and pedestrians to move from shore to shore. There are plans for its major reconstruction, but for now it continues to fulfill its functions as a transport artery of the city.
"Museum of Local Lore"
You can admire the Kamyshin Local History Museum without even entering it. This is a real palace in the Russian Baroque style with numerous architectural details and decorations. A wide staircase leads to the building, which starts from the embankment. The museum conducts unique excursions and tells about the rich history of the city and its inhabitants. Here visitors will learn many secrets and mysteries of this area. The modern museum has fourteen halls with a variety of exhibits:
- Archaeological finds.
- Animal world.
- World of plants.
- Houseware.
- Photos from the time the city was founded.
- Ethnic characteristics.
The main pride of the museum, which attracts even tourists from abroad, is the valuable collection of fossils of ancient plants. And the collection of prints on the stones has no analogues in the world.
Location: Sovetskaya street - 1.
"Art Gallery"
The “Art Gallery” is officially part of the “Local History Museum”, but is located in a different place from it. In the building you can admire not only paintings, but also wonderful engravings, drawings, and objects of applied art.
The general fund of the gallery includes more than 1000 exhibits , both from famous artists and newcomers. The city of Kamyshin is famous for its artists who systematically attend all kinds of exhibitions at various levels and receive worthy awards, thereby glorifying their land.
Location: Lenin street - 10.
Population
The population of the city at the beginning of 2014 was just over 115 thousand people and is gradually growing - partly from people coming from the northern regions for the good climate, partly naturally due to the favorable environment.
The composition of the city's population is mononational; representatives of Ukrainian, Tatar, Azerbaijani and other nationalities make up about 5 percent. During the time of Catherine, the Volga region was a place of German colonization.
May 9 in Kamyshin
There are several Orthodox churches in the city: the largest and oldest, Nikolsky, on Budennogo Street, Trinity Parish in a historical building on the street. Oktyabrskaya (near the city embankment) and others. The parish of the city's patron saint, Dmitry of Thessaloniki, has been revived (during the time before the reign of Catherine, Kamyshin was named Dmitrievsk). There is also a German cultural center and an Armenian community. There are many interest clubs operating at libraries and the local history museum.
"Monument to A. Maresyev"
The famous writer Boris Polevoy created a unique book about the heroic exploits of military pilot A. Maresyev, “The Tale of a Real Man.” Every native of Kamyshin remembers the terrible four years of the Great Patriotic War. In gratitude, the townspeople erected a monument to this great man in the exact place of the city where Alexey was born, and are very proud of the actions of their fellow countryman.
Location: Lenin and Nekrasov streets (intersection).
Kamyshin: famous monuments and memorials
A tourist can see many famous memorable and simply sculptural compositions while walking around Kamyshin. Photos against the backdrop of such sights always take a worthy place in a photo album.
Monument to Dmitry Solunsky
- Address: Komsomolskaya Square.
On the streets of Kamyshin you can find many works by sculptor Sergei Shcherbakov. His authorship is the statue of the Orthodox Saint Dmitry of Thessalonica, who is the patron saint of the city. One of the names of the settlement refers to it - Dmitrovsk.
The monument, the total height of which reaches seventeen meters, consists of a high column-pedestal of red marble and a 4-meter figure of the saint. Saint Dmitry has stood on Komsomolskaya Square since 2013.
Monument to the city builders
- Address: Builders Park.
In 2014, a sculptural composition in the form of an arch was installed in the city - a common element of many architectural structures in the city. This is a monument dedicated to those who built Kamyshin. Someone saw in the monument a resemblance to the Borodino Bridge, which is also symbolic. An “arch” was installed in one of the city parks, which is called “Builders Park”.
Monument to Alexander Kolgatin
- Address: st. Lenina, 7A.
A native of Kamyshin, Alexander Kolgatin was a senior lieutenant in the Russian army, at the turn of the century he fought in the North Caucasus during the Chechen campaign, and commanded an engineer platoon.
At the end of February 2000, he showed courage in battles, being seriously wounded, and managed to stop the militants by detonating mines. Kolgatin’s feat found a response in the hearts of Russians. He was awarded the title of Hero of Russia, and in 2015 a monument was erected to him in his homeland.
Memorial plaque to Evgeny Martynov
- Address: Neftyanikov street, 20.
In 1997, on an unremarkable wooden house on the street. A memorial plaque appeared for oil workers. It was here that composer and singer Evgeny Martynov was born and spent the first three years of his life.
Monument to Komsomol volunteers
- Address: Park of Culture and Leisure named after Komsomol Volunteers.
In the park of culture and recreation there is a granite stele, consisting of two parts. At its foot is a bas-relief of a human face and the number 1942 - the year of the Great Patriotic War, a landmark battle for the region. This is a monument to those for whom the park is named. More than 2,000 thousand Komsomol members voluntarily went to the front to defend Stalingrad.
Avenue of Heroes
- Address: Victory Park.
In 2010, the appearance of Victory Park was complemented by the Alley of Heroes. Twelve busts of natives of the city of Kamyshin, awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union and Russia, were sculpted by Sergei Shcherbakov.
"Open Air Museum of Aviation Technology"
Kamyshin is famous for famous pilots, so it is here that the “Museum of Aviation Technology” will show and tell a lot of interesting things in the open air. Various brands of missiles and aircraft are installed on pedestals on a vast territory:
- Rocket -300
- The famous MIG-21
- Training aircraft L-39
- Airplane SU-7B
- Frontline fighter MIG-29
- Updated MIG-29 fighter with computer control.
The unique collection will especially please male vacationers.
Location: Victory Park.
Mountains "Kamyshinsky Ears"
Just a few kilometers from the city there is an inimitable natural attraction. These are more likely not even mountains, but hills, since their height is a little more than one hundred and fifty meters.
Thick slabs of quartz sandstone form walls that are very steep in some places. “Kamyshin Ears” annually attracts a large number of scientists to these places, because on the fragments of various shapes located at the base of the mountains there are imprints of plants that grew in ancient times. A plant has been found that, according to botanists and geologists, does not exist anywhere else in the world. It was given a name - Kamyshin magnolia.
St. Nicholas Cathedral
In the 17th century, a plague epidemic raged everywhere. This is how a large city cemetery appeared in Kamyshino, where the townspeople who died from this disease were buried. The cathedral was built on the territory of this cemetery at the end of the 17th century. Two hundred years later it was rebuilt and the building was enlarged. After the revolution there was a warehouse here, but the building itself was preserved in order to continue its service later. That's what happened.
Nature Park "Shcherbakovsky"
Lovers of nature and hiking will be enchanted by Shcherbakovsky Park, which is located not far from the bustle of the city. The phenomenal nature of the park lies in the fact that in its small territory it combines several natural zones.
Virgin steppes and forest-steppes coexist with deserts and semi-deserts. Thanks to this, tourists can view a wide variety of representatives of the animal and plant worlds. Some of them are unique, endangered and rare.
Attractions in the vicinity of Kamyshin
There are also interesting things to do in the vicinity of the city of Kamyshin - as a rule, these are attractions of a natural nature.
Nature Park "Shcherbakovsky"
- Coordinates: 50.500000, 45.750000.
On the border of the Volgograd and Saratov regions in the Kamyshinsky district, a specially protected area was created in 2002 - the Shcherbakovsky Natural Park. It includes several natural attractions, including Urakov Hill, Stolbichi, Shcherbakovskaya Balka.
Stolbichi
- Coordinates: 50.497223, 45.794149.
Stolbichki is a name given to a natural monument, which consists of sharp cliffs on the banks of the Volga, which are composed of yellowish-gray stone - opoka. Very picturesque cliffs have become a habitat for white-tailed eagles.
Urakov hill
- Coordinates: 50.250862, 45.650191.
Urakov Hill is one of the most famous natural monuments and archaeological sites near the city of Kamyshin. Urakov Hill is a mountain at the foot of which archaeological excavations were carried out and sites of ancient people of the Mesolithic era were found. The mountain itself has preserved traces of an ancient mound. It offers stunning views of the Volga. The author of historical novels V.G. dedicated an entire chapter to this mountain in his novel “Batu”. Jan.
"Drama Theater"
The theater has an exceptional history. Until now, historians have not come to a consensus about when it was founded. The theater was also renamed very often. Initially it was “Kolkhoz-State Farm”, then changed its name to “Peredvizhnaya”. Then it became “City”, later “Tour”.
Nowadays, the Drama Theater is the most suitable place for cultural recreation. A professional troupe presents magnificent performances to visitors. For several years now, the theater has been staging his compositions “Puppet Theater,” which greatly pleases grateful theatergoers.
Location: Nekrasova street - 6.
