What to See in Ufa - Top Sights and Attractions

The Ufa Lenin Museum is a museum devoted to Vladimir Lenin in Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia.

The museum was established in 1941 by the Government of Bashkortostan. Lenin visited Ufa twice, in February and June 1900. During the second visit, his wife rented a house with a mezzanine at the corner of Zhandarmskaya (now Krupskaya) and Prison (now Dostoevsky) streets in Ufa, where Lenin lived for almost three weeks. In memory of this stay of Lenin in Ufa, it was decided to organize a museum.

It has been reported that since the museum has transferred to Ufa City Administration museum was under threat of closure in 2015.^[1]

Bashkir State Academic Drama Theater Majit Gafuri operates in the Ufa city, the capital of the Republic of Bashkortostan of Russian Federations. The foundation of theater was laid on December 4, 1919, in Sterlitamak - the capital of Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The first art director of it was Valiulla Mortazin-Imansky. The theater has been moved to Ufa since 1922 and joined with the Tatar-Bashkir troupe of the Ufa State Theater. It has the status of academic drama theater since 1935 and was renamed as Majit Gafuri in 1971. The monument of "Majit Gafuri" was erected in front of the theater.^[2]

The Rodina Cinema is an historic cinema building in Lenina Street, the main street of Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia. The building was completed and opened in 1953, and as of 2018 was still being used as a cinema.^[3]

The Memorial Aksakov Museum in Ufa is a writer's house biographical museum which commemorates the life and work of author Sergey Aksakov in an apartment where he lived in Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia. It is located about two blocks from Republic House.^[4]

Mosque in Ufa, Russia. Lala Tulpan in Ufa is one of Russia's largest mosques with 53-metre-tall twin minarets. The building can hold up to 1000 worshippers. It was built between 1990 and 1998 to a modernist design by Wakil Davlyatshin. In 2001 Vladimir Putin held a meeting with Talgat Tadzhuddin and other Muslim clerics at the mosque.^[5]

Mosque in Ufa, Russia. The Old Mosque, Ufa, commonly known as the Tukayev Mosque, is located in Ufa, Russia.

The first permanent mosque in the city of Ufa was erected in 1830 on Frolovskaya Street (later renamed Tukayev Street). Its construction was initiated by Gabdesallam Gabdrakhimov (1765-1840), the second mufti of the Orenburg Muslim Spiritual Assembly. A madrasah was opened in 1887. It was the only active mosque in the city between 1960 and 1994. The local imam Cihangir Abızgildin was arrested and executed by the NKVD in 1937.^[6]

Bridge in Ufa, Russia. The Zaton bridge is an bridge, that carries four lanes of traffic over the Belaya River, between Ufa center and Zaton neighbourhood of Ufa, in Bashkortostan.^[7]

The Monument to the heroes of the October Revolution and the Civil War is a memorial in Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia. It was opened in 1975.^[8]

The S. Yulaev Garden of Culture and Leisure is a park of culture and leisure in the city of Ufa. At different times it was called "Garden on Sluchevskaya Mountain", "Garden of Nikolai Bogdanovich", "Garden of Egor Sazonov", "Garden named after N. K. Krupskaya". Currently, the park is named after the Bashkir national hero Salavat Yulaev.

Mosque. The Mosque of Twenty-Five Prophets is situated in the southern part of the city of Ufa, the capital of the Republic of Bashkortostan, in the Russian Federation. Construction began on the mosque on 16 June 1995, and ended fifteen years later on that same day.

The mosque was initially named ZaFaZa-Ihsan, but when research by the son of the founders noted that there is no mosque in the world named for the twenty-five prophets named in the Quran, the mosque was accordingly named after that group.^[9]

Function room facility in Ufa, Russia. The Congress Hall is the Government House in Ufa, built for the 450th anniversary of the accession of Bashkortostan to Russia.

Its architecture is characterized by the use of spatial, formal, coloristic prototypes of Bashkir culture for the formation of a modern national architecture. The epitome of this style became glazed facade with Bashkir ornament, looking at the Belaya River.

The BRICS summit was held in Congress Hall in 2015.^[10]

Kosterin's House is an historic Russian Art Nouveau former mansion on the corner of Pushkina and Karl Marx Streets, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia. Built in either 1907 or 1912 for merchant Pavel Kosterin, the building was occupied during the Russian Civil War by the White Army. Following the Bolshevik takeover, it was used by various government departments and institutions. Since 1997, it has housed the Bashkortostan office of the Federal Customs Service of Russia.^[11]

Park in Ufa, Russia. Lenin Gardens was one of the first urban public parks in Ufa, Russia. The park stretches along all the length of the north Republic House.^[12]

Historical landmark in Ufa, Russia. The Monument to Salavat Yulaev is a monument to Salawat Yulayev in Ufa, Russia. The monument is represented in the coat of arms of Bashkortostan. It was built in 1967.^[13]

Bridge. Ufa rail bridge across the Belaya River carries double tracked rail lines over the river Belaya. It is located in the city of Ufa, the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia.^[14]