Housed in an imposing looking building, this museum will tell you a lot about the natural and social history of the area. It includes everything from local rock samples to wooden church architecture to Soviet propaganda posters and has a particularly interesting room devoted to clothing and artifacts of the Sami people who inhabit an area stretching from here through to northern Finland and Norway. It's all very well presented, though you won't find any English explications.

www.russianmuseums.info/M914
Lenin Prospekt 90
+7 (815) 242-2679

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Russian churches are usually at least picturesque, at most spectacular and this one fits into the former category. It is also probably at the most picturesque location in town, with views across the city and harbour and being adjacent to a memorial lighthouse, set in a small park. The interior is very decorative too, in the Russian Orthodox style with the usual babushka hovering around and making sure all is in order.

Ulitsa Geroev Severomortsev

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This is a 35.5 metre high statue of a World War Two Russian soldier, erected in 1974, complete with suitably large wreaths placed at its seven-metre base. It towers impressively above the surrounding landscape and is another reminder that if the Russians are going to have one, it's usually a big 'un.

Path leading from Ulitsa Aleksandrova

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