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100 informal attractions. Part 3
The third issue of the heading " 100 informal attractions of Barnaul " will tell about the local Eiffel Tower, Masonic signs, Roman Catholic Church, stork, stone courtyards and capsule from Komsomol members from the eighties.
80. A pair of storks stand at the intersection of Molodnye Street and Socialist Avenue. As the locals say, if you throw a coin to them in a nest, you can wait for the increase in the family. A coin with a face value of one ruble is one child. Two rubles - twins ... well, the Piglet will give a chance to the five.
79. In the 1940s, large tanks for storing water, disguised as a hill, were built on Sakharov Square. Until the 1960s, the rest of the future space was a wasteland cut by ravines and the Barnauls used this artificial hill ... as a ski slide. Now the tanks are empty, there are no water in them, but there is a whole museum of garbage and other waste of life. Although, if you do not climb inside, a relatively good view of the neighborhood opens from above.
78. No one will remember when this house at the intersection of the socialist prospectus and Papaninites Street nicknamed the Titanic. Perhaps, as soon as the citizens' eyes opened his appearance, reminiscent of a huge ocean liner, or maybe after the 2003 earthquake, which left a crack on the wall. But the word has taken root. "Titanic" - he is "Titanic".
77. The sculpture unknown to many in Sakharov Square in front of the Sports Palace is nothing more than a “memorable sign to the 5th zonal art exhibition” made of concrete and decorated with mosaics. It has been here since 1980, from the very time when Barnaul widely celebrated the 250th anniversary. According to legends, under this sign there is a capsule with a message from Komsomol members to future generations.
76. The stone courtyard between houses number 78 on Socialist Prospekt and number 85a on Dimitrov Street is one of the most unusual in Barnaul. Firstly, it is multi-level, as if it were not Barnaul, but some kind of part of Paris or Rome. And secondly, this is one of the most favorite student places for meetings and relaxing with a bottle of something funny.
75. The real church of the Roman Catholic Church was built in Barnaul exactly 100 years ago, but in the 1930s it was closed and rebuilt to completely different needs. The healers of the winds were replaced by bodily healers. A pharmacy has opened here, which works to this day.
74. "Skewer" - a place of party of student youth of the regional capital. A small platform, in the center of which is a monument to Rolzunov. In the 1990s, it was rarely possible to meet schoolchildren with abstracts here. Basically, the hands of sitting young men and girls were busy with beer bottles. At night, they sang songs to the guitar here and fell in love. Time and laws have done their job - and today in the "pans" is rarely you can meet drunk. Now this place is just a platform before a higher educational institution, neat and faceless.
73. The special communications tower, which is located in the backyard of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Altai Territory on Lenin Avenue, is called the local Eiffel Tower for distant external similarities and for its size. The metal structure can be seen from afar, it rises above the surrounding roofs and sets up romantic natures in the corresponding mood.
72. In the house number 81 on Lenin Avenue there are arches, and these arches are closed to the gate, on the grill of which you can find strange symbols, reminiscent of the signs of the Order of the Rosicrucians - a rose and a cross. The innermost meaning of the symbol is the union of the divine female and masculine principle. Well, there is still a lot of alchemy, Kabbalistics and black magic. Whether there were builders of a member of the order or is it just a random coincidence - it is not known for certain.
71. Near house number 23, a tree with young apples and a cat-scientist was installed several years ago on Builders Avenue. They did not stand in such a composition for long and it turned out in the end as in a children's rhyme: "They cut off the oak from Lukomorye, they cut down the cat on the meat, put the mermaid in a barrel and wrote - cucumbers." In the end - one unhappy tree.
To be continued...