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5 Festive Holiday Themes for Dance Performances

• words by Trey Hoffman

“The Nutcracker” is a holiday staple as much as a gorgeously garlanded tree, prettily wrapped present or warm mug of hot chocolate. Clara, Drosselmeyer and the Sugar Plum Fairy have been part of the holiday season since the ballet was first performed in Russia in 1892. While putting on “The Nutcracker” with your studio is sure to wow, why not try something new this year? These five holiday themes for dance performances are fresh and creative celebrations of the season.

1. A Christmas Carol

You’ve heard the story hundreds of times, but have you ever seen a ballet interpretation of the Dickens’ classic? “A Christmas Carol’s”  dramatic scenes, from Fezziwig’s gleeful holiday ball to the Ghosts of Christmas Past and Present whisking Scrooge from his bed and flying him across the city, lend themselves well to whimsical choreography. Bustling ensemble scenes set in the lantern-lit streets of Victorian England promise a festive performance that will have audiences experiencing the classic story in a whole new way.

2. The Steadfast Tin Solider

Based on a fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen, “The Steadfast Tin Solider” is a love story that will have children wondering what the toys under their trees are really up to. A tiny tin soldier falls in love for a paper doll ballerina, and they dance and twirl together beneath the sparkling light of a Christmas tree until the solider gives the ballerina his heart. It’s no lightweight tale – the pair meets a heartbreaking end when a cold winter breeze from an open window sweeps the ballerina into the fireplace – but audiences will be enraptured by this sweet tale of tiny love.

3. White Christmas

Celebrate the season with vintage class and flair by performing this Irving Berlin classic . Two entertainers fresh from the army put on a Christmas show at a cozy Vermont inn with two lovely singing-and-dancing sisters. Spectacular sets, colorful costumes and some of America’s favorite Christmas songs will have audiences clapping and singing along during a performance of this holiday favorite from the Fifties.

4. The Hip Hop Nutcracker

Treat audiences to a fresh and energizing spin on a classic. “The Hip Hop Nutcracker” takes Tchaikovsky’s classic score and turns it on its head – literally. Fierce hip hop choreography breathes new life into the tale, injecting it with an energetic dose of modern, urban flair, trading Clara’s grand living room for the city streets. We’re sure you audience haven’t seen anything like it before – and that they’ll be on their feet cheering by the end.

5. A Winter Fairy Tale

Add another performance to your typical seasonal lineup with “A Winter Fairy Tale,” a traditional Russian New Year’s Eve story. The forest animals are having their Wintertime celebration deep in a snowy, enchanted forest when the Bat Queen swoops in and steals away an innocent bunny. The forest animals unite, along with a Magician and stunning Rose Maiden, to rescue the bunny in this delightful winter fable set to music by Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov.

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Celebrate the most wonderful time of the year by adding one of these festive and fresh themes for dance performances to your studio’s holiday lineup.

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Christmas party & Corona: ideas for your company party in 2022

11.09.21   •  #christmas #tips.

The Christmas party is one of the most important corporate events of the year and an excellent way to show employees appreciation and gratitude. An entertaining Christmas party increases motivation and recharges employees' batteries for the next year. Especially in this extraordinary pandemic year the company party has a particularly high priority. Last year, unfortunately, many Christmas parties had to be canceled at short notice due to Corona regulations or had to be changed into a virtual event. Due to the current increase in infections, the situation is also uncertain for Christmas 2021. To find out how to be prepared for all unpredictable cases this year and how your Christmas party can take place with certainty, read this article. We've got a solution for every case - whether remote, hybrid or completely normal in person. This way, your Christmas party can also be held in a Corona-compliant manner.

A Christmas party should be fun and promote team spirit - in times of home offices this is more important than ever. ever. To lighten the mood, games are suitable for both large and small groups. A popular classic at Christmas is Secret Santa. Each employee buys a small gift for another employee he or she has drawn in a raffle. This way, no one goes home without a gift. By the way: Secret Santa can can also be easily organized as a Online Christmas party, in which everyone sends their gift. Another game that guarantees a funny Christmas party is "Who am I?". Each employee thinks up a personality for a teammate and writes it down on a piece of paper. Now they have to guess the name as quickly as possible using only yes-no questions.

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2. Who Wants to be a Millionaire

3. PowerPoint Karaoke

If you are looking for a fun game where your employees will practice their presentation skills at the same time, PowerPoint Karaoke is for you. PowerPoint Karaoke is a game with very simple rules: The presenter gets on stage and has to convincingly present a set of PowerPoint slides that he has never seen before. The goal is to have as much fun as possible. You can download the exact PP Karaoke rules and finished presentations for free in this article. To create even more Christmas spirit, topics around Christmas, for example, would be suitable for your company party.

4. Christmas quiz

To bring a bit of excitement and puzzle fun into a company Christmas party, a Christmas quiz is a good idea. When different teams or departments compete against each other, team spirit is awakened and a successful end to the business year is guaranteed. It gets even better when the questions revolve around Christmas. You are welcome to use the questions we have prepared for you here:

Questions for a Christmas Quiz

What is the Christmas tree's origin country?

• The Czech Republic

Which one of the following is NOT one of Santa's reindeers?

What is often used to decorate Christmas trees in Poland?

• spider webs
• ripped book pages

Which one of these is the best-selling Christmas song of all time?

• All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey
• Last Christmas - Wham!
• Do They Know It's Christmas? - Band Aid
• White Christmas - Bing Crosby

A Japanese tradition is to spend Christmas eve...

• away from your husband or wife.
• in Irish pubs.

If you need even more questions and don't want to come up with your own, that's no problem at all. In our blog post 50 ideas for quiz questions we have listed ideas that you can easily use.

Quiz with SlideLizard

Running quizzes without participants randomly shouting out answers can be difficult, especially online. We recommend using a tool like SlideLizard: Quiz participants can log in with a QR code or a short URL in the browser on their cell phone or laptop, and vote directly from their smartphone. Your participants can collect points and the winner could get a small prize.

5. Escape Game

If you want to offer your employees an extraordinary Christmas party that strengthens the cohesion in the company, then an Escape Game is just the right thing for you. Here you have to solve puzzles as a team to escape from a room. Only by working together the way out can be discovered. There are also online Escape Rooms where employees from a wide variety of locations can participate. So you can easily hold your Christmas party online without missing out on the fun factor. We have made an overview with different Escape Game providers and their offers:

6. Company Speech followed by dinner

Use your Christmas party to say thank you and show your appreciation to your employees for the work they have done. A dinner together is a perfect way to give a motivational speech and strengthen the team spirit. At the end of your speech, for example, you could open the buffet and toast to a Merry Christmas. If you want to support your speech with PowerPoint slides Questions and ask questions to your employees, we recommend SlideLizard. With SlideLizard, your audience can use their own smartphone to answer questions and provide anonymous feedback. Learn more about interactive speeches with SlideLizard here.

7. Cooking together

A small company with its own kitchen and not too many employees can turn the Christmas party into a fun cooking evening. Instead of having to choose from a predefined menu, the wishes or allergies of individual employees can be considered. If the cooking enthusiasm in the company is not particularly high, a raclette or fondue evening provides a certain coziness.

8. Do Winter Sports together

Enjoying sports together unites employees and is good for their health at the same time. One sport that makes a great outdoor activity is curling. But also an ice hockey match at a frozen lake is also fun and brings the team together. In order to get to know each other, it is a good idea to divide the colleagues into teams that do not work together otherwise. For large companies, a whole ice hockey tournament can be organized.

With these ideas and Corona-compliant variations, you are prepared for all uncertainties and your Christmas party 2021 can be held successfully. For even more virtual Christmas party ideas check out this article.

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5 Easy Lessons for Making a Christmas dance

Are you thinking about teaching a dance for the end of year Christmas performance?  In this article you will learn how to structure a practical student choreography and discover how easy and rewarding this can be.  

Dance is a celebration in itself.  It gives children the chance to reflect on, explore, and express their feelings and emotions about the last part of the year.

By using these 5 simple but engaging dance activities in your Primary classroom, you can create a performance that is an entertaining, collaborative learning experience.  If you are looking for a final piece of dance performance and choreographic assessment this can fulfill that wish as well.

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This Christmas dance may be adapted for Years 3 – 6, different age groups will require different levels of support.

Christmas dance theme

The Christmas dance performance is a way that children can enjoy making and performing as a summary of what has happened throughout the year.  This dance is based on the themes of Gratitude and Friendship and celebrates these two important parts of Christmas.

Two major events could be happening in this lead up to Christmas, which is when you will be preparing for the performance.  In some classrooms around the world, Thanksgiving will probably still be a part of the preparations at this time of year, but for many, this will signal graduating to the next year level with a new class and new teacher. Within the theme of Gratitude and Friendship both these events are celebrated.

If you would like to create learning activities using a Thanksgiving Dance or about end of year movement activities these are some additional simple dance ideas for your classroom.

Planning your Christmas dance

Ideally the preparation for this dance should begin about five weeks before the performance if you are doing a 45 min class once or twice a week.  However, it can be done in a week if you are doing advance lesson every day.

To ensure that you stick to a project timeline plan for this dance together with your students.   How will the timeline for creation of the dance and rehearsal look?

Whether you are planning for assessment outcomes or not, you need to set goals for the dance to ensure the children are confident to perform.  What are the checkpoints you need to have along the way?

Involving the children in  designing a timeline to the performance with tasks and goals they need to hit for certain lessons.  This is a chance to implement project based learning into your dance class.  It leads to a more authentic approach to dance creation and production as it is collaborative and involves practical problem solving.

This timeline will support the 5 steps of the choreographic process.  You can use these steps as a framework for your timeline.

Step 1 The value of ‘thank you’

How do we say thank you?  As a class discuss how you thank people.  Create a word bank of ‘thank you words’ in many languages

Older students can research this themselves to find how to say thank you in a language that has some personal meaning to them.  This could be a part of their cultural background or just a culture they are interested in.

• The dance begins with the children coming on stage saying thank you to each other in many languages. They walk onto the stage in small groups saying thank you to each other with a smile.
• This can be without music and encourage them to explore gestures that may accompany the words. They use locomotor movements in curved pathways throughout the space.
• As they explore the movements further encourage them to reply with a ‘your welcome’ movement. As their movements become more exaggerated using the Dance Elements the music begins.
• This section ends with them finding a partner.

Step 2 Noticing what’s important

In this lesson the children decide what they are grateful for. If they are having trouble thinking of things you could brainstorm as a class.  Try going through the alphabet and finding something for each letter.  For example, A – being A ble to breath air, B – having a B ed to sleep in.

For older students, they could think about more specific things.  Not just grateful for my family but for the ways they support me when I am having a difficult time.

What emotions do they make you feel? How could you show that emotion in movements?

Each performs this in their own space.

Step 3 Doing the appreciating

How do you express your appreciation other than saying thank you?

• In groups of four, create unison movements that show these ideas.
• Join each piece of the group choreography. This section is performed in unison so try to encourage these movements to be mainly non locomotor movements – using high, middle and low levels and different rhythms and shapes.
• Finish the final movements of this section by the group dividing back into pairs.

Step 4 Helping each other

How can friends support each other?

In this section the children explore taking weight through connected shape making.   This could be joining hands with little ones or resting on different body parts.  For older students they could explore leaning on each other, counterbalance activities or giving or supporting weight.

• In pairs create movements that support or take the weight of each other or different body parts. Use a range of shapes that represent supporting your friends.  Explore how you will move from one shape to the next smoothly.

• This section finishes with all the children doing a circular locomotor movement together around the space. They can decide on any joyous travelling movement.  For example, young children may choose to skip and older children may create a series of leaping, rolling, and galloping movements.

Step 5 Coming together

How do we connect with each other?

This final piece of the choreography is to create a formation that becomes the finishing pose for the dance.  It is performed as a canon as each child leaves the circular movement to form a shape in the middle of the space, facing the audience.

• In pairs create a shape that represents friendship. It needs to have at least two body parts connecting and use different levels.  The pair makes eye contact with each other in this frozen shape.
• As a class connect the pairs ‘friendship shapes’ together in a line along the front of the dance space facing the audience.

Take a photo of this final pose and give each child a photo at the end of the year.

Putting it all together

When you are planning for this performance make sure you leave enough time for rehearsal as this will ensure that the children are confident and proud to perform their work.

There are production details that you can decide collectively with your class

• What will you call the dance?
• What music will you use? You may want to edit several pieces together to capture the mood of the dance. It is sometimes better to use instrumental music to focus the attention on the meaning of the movements rather than the lyrics.
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These are just a few ideas to help you create a rewarding and exciting making and performing experience for your class.  By helping the children plan this activity they learn about planning, task completion, professional dance practice and art production.  These activities are sure to make your end of year dance performance more meaningful then just learning steps.

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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.

Architecture of Omsk

On the street in Omsk

Author: Tim Brown

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

The Omsk Cadet Corps

Author: Stanislav Katsko

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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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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