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The Arboretum

Хабаровский дендрарий

Founded in 1896 as an experimental laboratory, it was transformed into a 12-hectare (27-acre) botanical garden in the 1930s. It's a nice place for a stroll among the many trees, bushes and flowers, about 800 different kinds of them gathered from nearly every continent; some exotic medical plants also grow here.

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Address: 71 Volochaevskaya St
Hours: May-Oct, advance reservations required

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Triada Pantomime Theatre
Театр пантомимы Триада
Established in the waning days of the Soviet Union, this institution has outlived communism, and is still going strong after 30 years. The name is from the Greek word for trinity, meant to signify the three purposes of Pantomime: to laugh, cry and excite, all done through simple entertaining shows that are often meant to convey a deeper philosophical idea. Besides pantomime shows, they also play comedic clown acts and traditional theatre. The hall seats around 90 people.
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Bonifatsiy Bar
Бонифаций Бар
Kind of like going to the bar at the circus, given the theme. Also on the premises is another establishment called Pushkin Yard.
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Geological Museum
Геологический музей Хабаровска
Housed in a beautiful 19th-century building, which once belonged to a prominent local merchant family. True to its name, this museum has a huge collection of rocks and minerals – some even some from outer space, like a few moon fragments brought home to Earth by automatic probes and one of the world's largest iron meteorites which crashed into the Sikhot-Ailin mountains in the 1940s. If you are not into stones, you could check out the small section on tools and equipment related to prospecting in the region or the collection of prehistoric plant and animal fossils. Outside the museum there are a few large monoliths of minerals, ores and rocks.
Closed · opens 10 am
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Cathedral of the Transfiguration
Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral, Преображенский Кафедральный собор
Christianity is alive and well in Russia, as this golden domed church towering above Khabarovsk is evidence of. Only completed in 2004, at 83 meters it's the 3rd tallest church in all of Russia - inside it's not that impressive, just large. The monastery, or rather the Theological Seminary, right next to it is also worth a look a brief look from the outside. Opposite, facing the Amur is a war memorial "Вечный огонь" ("the eternal flame"), rather kitschy but has good Amur views. The whole thing is labeled as the Ploshchad Slavy or the Square of Glory.