11 Sights in Tiraspol, Moldova (with Map and Images)
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Welcome to your journey through the most beautiful sights in Tiraspol, Moldova! Whether you want to discover the city's historical treasures or experience its modern highlights, you'll find everything your heart desires here. Be inspired by our selection and plan your unforgettable adventure in Tiraspol. Dive into the diversity of this fascinating city and discover everything it has to offer.
Sightseeing Tours in Tiraspol1. Nadezhda Aronetskaya Pridnestrovian State Drama Theatre
The Pridnestrovian State Theater of Drama and Comedy named after N. S. Aronetskaya is one of the first Moldavian theaters. It was opened in the early 1930s in the capital of the then Moldavian Autonomous SSR, the city of Tiraspol. The theater began its life as a studio theater, then as the City Drama Theater, the Republican Drama Theater of Drama and Comedy, and in 1992 the theater became the Pridnestrovian State Drama and Comedy Theater, which in 2001 was named after the Honored Artist of the Moldavian SSR, the founder of the theater Nadezhda Stepanovna Aronetskaya.
Wikipedia: Приднестровский государственный театр драмы и комедии (RU), Website
2. Тираспольская крепость
The Tiraspol Fortress, or the Middle Fortress, is a fortress erected in 1792-1793 under the leadership of the commander A. V. Suvorov and the architect F. P. de Volan as a defensive structure on the left bank of the Dniester River. At the walls of the Sredinnaya fortress, the city of Tiraspol arose, built by decree of Catherine II.
3. Local History Museum
The Tiraspol United Museum is a municipal cultural institution in the city of Tiraspol, the capital of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic. It arose by merging into one structural institution the Tiraspol museums that had existed since the Soviet era, which make up the sights of the city: the Museum of History and Local Lore, the House-Museum of Academician N. D. Zelinsky, the Museum of the Headquarters of the Cavalry Brigade of G. I. Kotovsky, the Art Gallery and the Museum of the History of the Tiraspol Fortress. The director of the Tiraspol United Museum is A. A. Melnichuk.
4. Музей штаба кавалерийской бригады Г.И. Котовского
The Military History Museum of the Headquarters of the Cavalry Brigade of G. I. Kotovsky is the only military history museum of its kind associated with the activities of the legendary Red Commander in Moldova and Ukraine during the Civil War. It is located in Tiraspol in the building of the former city hotel "Paris". It is one of the most significant historical sights of Tiraspol. Structurally, it is part of the Tiraspol United Museum, which also includes the Museum of History and Local Lore, the Museum of the History of the Suvorov Fortress, the house-museum of the inventor of the gas mask, Academician N. D. Zelinsky, and an art gallery. Currently, due to the threat of the collapse of the building, the exposition has been returned to the central building of the Tiraspol United Museum.
Wikipedia: Музей штаба кавалерийской бригады Г. И. Котовского (RU)
5. Church of the Nativity
The Church of the Nativity, also known as the Cathedral of the Birth of Christ, is the largest and newest church in Tiraspol, the capital of Transnistria. It is a Russian Orthodox Church completed in 1999 to serve as the Mother Church of the Orthodox Christian Diocese of Tiraspol.
6. Station Square
The Station Square is one of the four central squares of the city of Tiraspol, geographically it is its center. On the square is the building of the Tiraspol Railway Station, next to which the central bus station is located.
7. Memorial of Glory
Memorial of Glory is a city memorial located on Suvorov Square of Tiraspol, the capital of Transnistria. It commemorates the Veterans and the dead of the Great Patriotic War, the Soviet-Afghan War, and the Transnistria War.
8. Покровская церковь
The Church of the Intercession is a church of the Tiraspol and Dubossary diocese of the Moldavian Metropolis of the Russian Orthodox Church in the city of Tiraspol. Until the completion of the construction of the Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ, it was the main temple of the city.
Wikipedia: Покровская церковь (Тирасполь, новая) (RU), Website
9. Nikolay Zelinsky Museum
The Memorial House-Museum of N. D. Zelinsky is a municipal cultural institution in the city of Tiraspol, the capital of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic. It is part of the Tiraspol United Museum.
10. Old Believers Pokrovskaya Church
The Pokrovskaya Church is the temple of the Chisinau and all Moldova of the diocese of the Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church in the city of Tiraspol at 29 Lunacharsky Street. The only church in Tiraspol, which was not closed in the Soviet years.
Wikipedia: Покровская церковь (Тирасполь, старообрядческая) (RU)
11. Suvorov Monument
Monument to Suvorov is a monument to Russian generalissimo Alexander Suvorov located on the Suvorov Square in Tiraspol, capital city of the unrecognized country of Transnistria. According to the director of the Tiraspol United Museum Alla Melnichuk, this monument is considered one of the best artistic monuments to Suvorov in the territory of the former USSR.
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