Arts Square

Opposite the Art Museum is a cozy Park of Artists, its

It is also called the Arts Square, it is here that creative people of Sochi come and put up for sale and public display their works. The Art Museum was built in 1936 by architect Zholtovsky I.V., the building was built as an administrative one and there was located the CPSU Gorky. After 40 years, namely since 1976, an art museum was opened here. In the center of the square there is a monument to V.I. Lenin, it was erected in 1957 in honor of the fortieth anniversary of the Great Socialist Revolution. The architect of the classics was Rudnev L.V. and sculptor Vilensky Z.M. From the sculpture in four directions depart walking paths with beautiful flower beds and luxurious palm trees. There are many benches where you can sit and admire tropical plants. At the entrance to the art museum there are metal characters of the famous Sochi metal artist Hakob Khalafyan, his works he prefers to embody from old water pipes and scrap metal. Near the university there is a dolmen - a megalithic stone structure of antiquity. Scientists believe they were built 5,000 to 3,000 years ago.