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GETTING READY FOR A GREAT VISIT!

Wings and waves waterpark’s highest priority is the safety of all guests and staff and will continue to follow the most current oha guidance to support a healthy recreational environment. we will continue to limit park capacity and support guests who decide they are more comfortable wearing masks during their stay.  if you would like a plastic bag to help keep your mask dry, please ask and we will provide one to you.  , park entry may only be guaranteed to guests with reservations.  if the park is at capacity, walk-up guests will not be allowed entry.  wings and waves waterpark does not keep wait -lists.  , plan ahead for an amazing day pro-tips for a great visit. guarantee entry at the lowest ticket price offered.

Check the “ Schedule and Hours ” tab to see the most current park schedule and pick the perfect day for your visit. To get the lowest ticket price and guarantee your visit, click the “Buy Tickets” button and then use the calendar icon tat appears in the search bar to see what reservations are available on that day. Click the session you’d like to attend and follow the easy instructions to make your reservation! Make sure all members in your group who are older than 2 years old can come with you to enjoy the fun by purchasing an entry ticket for everyone.  If they are coming in to watch the family play, they will need a ticket to enter!

On the day of your visit, arrive early. Wings and Waves Waterpark makes every effort to open our doors 15 minutes before your session begins.

Check out Park Amenities 

Wings and Waves Waterpark offers a variety of optional amenities to enhance your visit. Treat your family and friends to a cabana experience or give them three extra slide experiences with our VRSlide ! There are free tubes available for all guests to share located at the bottom of the slides, but if you don’t want to share you don’t have to. Wings and Waves offers both single and double tubes for rent in our retail store, Landing Gear. While you are there, rent a locker to hold your things so everyone can play together! Before you leave for the day, come back to Landing Gear to grab a snack and a drink for the ride home.

What should I bring?

You don’t need to pack heavy to have a great time. Before you leave home, make sure you’ve packed towels and swimsuits for everyone!  If you are visiting with diaper dependent children, make sure you have a couple of extra swim diapers, too.  Don’t worry if you forgot any of these things at home, though.  You can find swimwear, swim diapers and towels in Landing Gear, our retail store. Finally, make sure you have access to your Confirmation Email, either in print or that you can show on your phone as you check in. 

Plan your meal.

All those slide rides can sure make you hungry!  Milky Way Café offers a variety of snacks, wraps, pizza and treats. Avoid long lines by visiting the café before peak mealtimes, or fuel up for the trip home after. You are also welcome to bring water to help you stay hydrated but leave your snacks in a cooler inside your car as outside food is may not be brought into the park.  You may exit and re-enter the park as many times as you like during your session. 

Be a Safety Partner with Wings and Waves.

Before the big day, visit the Attractions Page on the Wings and Waves Website to see everything the park has to offer. Discover which attractions will be most appealing to everyone from the most mellow relaxation lovers to adventurous thrill seekers! Keep everyone safe and talk to your group about the park safety regulations ahead of time.

There is so much to see and do inside Wings and Waves. Wear fun, bright colors and take a group photo before everyone heads out to explore. If you have difficulty locating any of the members of your group, please ask anyone on the Wings and Waves team for assistance. Show us the picture and point out the person so our team knows exactly who we are helping you find.

How should I prepare for my park visit?

Please be sure to bring either a printout of your confirmation email or have it accessible on your mobile device. be sure to bring a towel , will all attractions and features be open for visitors, all wings and waves waterpark attractions are operational  access to some attractions may be restricted in the event of unexpected illness amongst our associates. .

Jump Out of a 747 On the Roof of This Stunning Oregon Waterpark

by Jessica Tomlinson | Jul 11, 2018 | Entertainment , Family Fun , Featured , Interesting , Road Trips , Things To Do , Travel , Western Oregon

Summer is more than just a season, it's an experience, and your summer won't be complete without a trip to Wings And Waves Waterpark in McMinnville Oregon. This one of a kind waterpark in the scenic Willamette Valley is well worth the trip and the memories.

Splashdown Harbor Features A 20 Foot High Res Screen

If you're just returning from your trip to Mars, you'll be splashing down in Splashdown Harbor, which is flanked by two Apollo rockets and features a 20 foot wide high-res screen that plays feature films and footage from real NASA Splashdowns! This 91,000 gallon pool has 6 real wave motions, depth charges and bubblers which makes it a unique place to swim and play. If you're looking for a pool without waves, there's also a leisure pool, and for the adventurous there's a whirlpool to spin you round and round.

Splash Down Harbor features a 20 foot wide high res screen that plays feature films and footage from real NASA Splashdowns. Photo via Wings And Waves Facebook.

Thrill Seekers Will Jump Out Of A 747 On The Roof

If you're an adrenaline junkie, you'll want to climb up to the roof and into a retired Boeing 747 where you can take four different waterslides back to the pool below.

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The Sonic Boom makes you feel like you're flying through the air in an open cockpit, while the Tail Spin will shoot you through figure eight turns and bends that will accelerate you faster than ever before. The Nose Dive simulates a rapid air descent on a two person inner tube and the Mach 1 will have swimmers aerodynamically racing over rushing speedways and sudden drops. Be sure to visit their website to see height and other restrictions on using each of these slides before your visit.

Go to the roof and take one of four different waterslides back to the pool below. Photo via Wings And Waves Facebook.

Wings And Waves Is Perfect for Adults, Families, And Children

Thrill seekers and children alike love this unique Oregon waterpark. While the slides crisscrossing the ceiling are perfect for the adventurous, there's also a child sized Aqua Play area, a leisure pool, and gentle child sized water slides. The Oregon Forest themed Aqua Play area is multi level and topped with a helicopter with a 300 gallon firefighting water bucket that dumps water on visitors.

Stand under a 300 gallon firefighting water bucket suspended from a helicopter to feel the rush! Photo via Wings And Waves Facebook.

If all that swimming and space exploration makes you hungry, be sure to check out the Milky Way Cafe at the park. It's a perfect place to relax and have a birds eye view of the waterpark below.

The Milky Way Cafe is the perfect place to grab a bite to eat. Photo via Wings And Waves Facebook.

You Won't Want To Miss The Aviation Museum

If you're going to make the trip for Wings And Waves, don't forget to check out the Evergreen Aviation And Space Museum just across the parking lot. The museum is home to Howard Hughes' massive Spruce Goose and it's a sight to behold.

How To Get To Wings And Waves

Photo via Wings And Waves Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/EvergreenWaterpark/

Here's a handy map to help you find Wings And Waves Waterpark and the Evergreen Aviation And Space Museum. If you don't feel like eating at the Milky Way Cafe in the waterpark, we suggest Sandwich Express as they have tasty food and a fun dining area with model trains that run around the perimeter of the ceiling and over bridges. If you're looking for a beautiful place to picnic with your meal, check out Huber County Park as you're likely to have the park all to yourself.

Admission and hours:

$20 for guests who are under 42" tall. $29 for guests who are over $42. For anyone who wants to visit but not necessarily swim, you can pay $10 to spectate. Do keep in mind you must be at least 42" and taller to shoot down the waterslide from the Boeing 747.

Wings and Waves is open seven days a week during the summer, from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. Head over to their official website or check them out on Facebook for more information.

Wings And Waves Waterpark is located at:

460 Northeast Captain Michael King Smith Way in McMinnville Oregon, 97128.

Phone:  (503) 434-4185

Have you been to Wings And Waves Waterpark before? Was it the best waterpark ever? Let us know in a comment. Don't forget to tag a friend you want to take to Wings And Waves!

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‘In Waves and War’ Review: A Moving Documentary About Wartime PTSD That Actually Offers Hope

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Jon Shenk and Bonni Cohen ‘s at times emotionally overwhelming documentary gets its title via a quote from “The Odyssey” that opens the film .

“By now, I am used to suffering. I have endured so much in waves and war. Let this next adventure follow.”

Shenk and Cohen ‘s film makes a powerful case that there may be another option: Psychedelic drugs, not approved for use in the U.S., may help break through these vets’ psychological barriers and offer a reset. It makes the case so forcefully that there are moments “In Waves and War” almost feels like a commercial: No downside to these drugs, ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT, is mentioned other than that they may help “crack you open” and face your unresolved traumas and guilt and grief directly — and then it’s up to you lay a new foundation to live a different way after treatment, or you might revert to the way you were before. It’s unclear in the film just how advisable this treatment — which usually involves vets traveling to a clinic in Mexico to receive it — is for everyone. And maybe it isn’t for everyone. But the key is that it offers hope.

And finally, there’s Matty Roberts, whose journey to Mexico to receive his first treatment is captured in “In Waves and War.” Matty suffered a major wound in his arm during one firefight and was convinced, initially, that his arm had been blown off altogether. With animations from London-based commercial animation company Studio AKA, each of these vets’ traumas come to life. The animation style is fluid and boundary-less, images just made out as they morph into something else: A helicopter hovering over a dusty landscape; a row of SEALs in nightvision goggles approaching a target; fire exchanged over a tractor tire. The images are as hazy as memory, and a very effective way of getting inside the heads of these vets — who otherwise tell their stories direct-to-camera, and are never less than compelling in doing so.

The animation particularly hammers home the individualized experiences of going through the psychedelic treatment: For Marcus, it felt like he was flying through a void with memories from his life floating like a swirl of Polaroids around him; for Matty, he ended up face to face staring down a version of himself, as if learning to confront and let go of his own ego.

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The capital city of Omsk oblast .

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Omsk is one of the largest cities in Russia, a major scientific, cultural, sports, transport, and industrial center. The administrative center of Omsk Oblast, it is the second most populous city in Siberia.

The population of Omsk is about 1,126,000 (2022), the area - 567 sq. km.

The phone code - +7 3812, the postal codes - 644000-644246.

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History of Omsk

Foundation of omsk.

The need to build a Russian fortress on the banks of the Irtysh at the mouth of the Om River arose in connection with the steppe nomadic peoples. In particular, with the Oirats, whose tribes in the first decades of the 17th century began to appear within the borders of the Russian state being under the onslaught of their external enemies and as a result of internal civil strife. However, various foreign and domestic political problems of Russia hindered the development and defense of the South Siberian borders.

The situation changed only at the beginning of the 18th century, when the Russian conquest of Siberia intensified. Since Peter I paid great attention to geographical research in the south, the expeditions of that time combined socio-political tasks and tasks of scientific research.

One of such expeditions was led by the Russian military and statesman, associate of Peter I, Major General Ivan Bukhgolts. The goals of the expedition, numbering about 3,000 people, were to search for ore and gold deposits, the discovery of trade routes to India and China, as well as the construction of towns on the Irtysh River.

The expedition left Tobolsk to the south along the Irtysh in July 1715. In the spring of 1716, after a conflict with the Dzungars in the north of today’s Kazakhstan, the remnants of the expedition (about 700 people) withdrew to the mouth of the Om River, where they laid a new fortress named Omsky ostrog (fortified settlement).

According to the census of 1725, 992 people lived in the fortress, in 1742 - 1,092 people. From the first years of its existence, it served as a place of exile for prisoners. After serving hard labor and imprisonment, a lot of them stayed in Omsk for permanent residence.

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Omsk in the second half of the 18th century

The ethnic composition of the region’s population was formed in the process of settling the territory. Russians, Germans, Ukrainians, Poles, Belarusians, and representatives of many other nationalities were sent here to serve or were exiled. The indigenous people of the region were the Siberian Tatars and Kazakhs, who switched to a sedentary lifestyle.

The foundation of the second Omsk fortress took place in 1762. The first fortress, although it occupied a favorable geographical position, was wooden and, by the middle of the 18th century, it was dilapidated. In 1765, new stone fortifications were constructed. The first stone structure of the fortress was the Resurrection Military Cathedral, built in 1773 and preserved to this day.

In the end of the 18th century, the Omsk fortress was one of the largest structures in the eastern part of the Russian Empire, its area was more than 30 hectares. In 1782, it was transformed into a town named Omsk within the Tobolsk Governorate. In 1785, the coat of arms of Omsk was approved.

Omsk became the center of management of the Siberian transport routes and the Siberian Cossack army, which not only guarded the South Siberian borders, but also made a huge contribution to the economic development of the steppe expanses of Kazakhstan, the annexation of Central Asia to the Russian Empire.

Omsk in the 19th century

The fire of 1819 destroyed almost half of the town including the archive and the magistrate of Omsk with all the first archival documents. Therefore information about the life of Omsk in the 18th - early 19th centuries is scarce and fragmentary. In 1825, the population of the town was about 9,000 people.

In 1829, the town’s development plan was approved. It was made by the famous Petersburg architect V.I. Geste, who took the city of St. Petersburg as a model with its wide avenues, huge neighborhoods, fountains, cast-iron bridges, and an abundance of green spaces.

The composition of the population of Omsk was not quite usual. In the middle of the 19th century, since Omsk was the center of the military and civil administration, the proportion of the military in the local population reached about 60%.

Fyodor Dostoevsky (one of the greatest psychological novelists in world literature), who served a term of hard labor in the Omsk prison in 1850-1854, in a letter to his brother gave Omsk the following description: “Omsk is a disgusting town. There are almost no trees. In summer, heat and wind with sand, in winter, a snowstorm. I have not seen nature. The town is dirty, military and highly depraved.”

By the second half of the 19th century, Omsk in its development outstripped many steppe towns and became not only an administrative, but also a commercial and industrial center. In 1861, in Omsk, there were 2,122 houses (31 stone houses), 34 factories and plants, about 20 thousand residents.

In 1892, the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway began, which gave a new impetus to the economy of Siberian towns and positively influenced Omsk. The development of the Trans-Siberian Railway caused an increase in the urban population due to migrants who came to work from the central part of the Russian Empire. According to the 1897 census, 37.3 thousand people lived in Omsk. The town had 14 streets with a total length of more than 140 km and 13 squares.

Omsk in the first half of the 20th century

The beginning of the 20th century was a time of great changes for Siberia. Mass peasant colonization caused a sharp leap in the development of the region’s economy, primarily its agrarian sector, and the Trans-Siberian Railway ensured the inclusion of the local economy in the system of the All-Russian and European markets.

Due to its favorable economic and geographical position - at the intersection of the railway and the Irtysh River, in the middle of a vast agricultural territory - Omsk quickly turned into a large transport, trade and industrial center of Western Siberia and Governor-Generalship of the Steppes (Eastern and Central Kazakhstan).

Wholesale trade in bread, butter and other agricultural products was concentrated here. Omsk also became one of the industrial, social and cultural centers of Western Siberia. By 1903, the city’s population grew to 60 thousand people. In 1914, it had about 134.8 thousand residents. Omsk became the most populous city in Siberia.

During the Civil War on the territory of the former Russian Empire, from June 1918 to November 1919, Omsk was the residence of the Supreme Ruler of Russia, Admiral Alexander Kolchak, who declared this city the capital of white Russia opposing red Russia of the Bolsheviks. Soviet power was finally established in the city in 1920.

In the summer of 1921, an event took place that had a decisive impact on the cultural and economic life of Omsk. The functions of the administrative center of Siberia were transferred from it to the city of Novonikolaevsk (future Novosibirsk). In 1934, Omsk became the administrative center of a separate Omsk Oblast.

Over the years of industrialization, Omsk became one of the largest centers for agricultural engineering in the USSR. The metal-working industry also developed at a rapid pace. In 1939, Omsk numbered more than 288 thousand people.

During the Second World War, about 200 industrial enterprises were evacuated to Omsk, as well as 60 hospitals, dozens of educational institutions, theaters, museums, and hundreds of thousands of refugees.

Omsk after the Second World War

In the post-war years, new enterprises were put into operation in Omsk, all existing factories and plants were reconstructed and expanded. The industrial potential of the city was also strengthened by the Omsk oil refinery, the largest in the country. In connection with the rapid development of industry, especially petrochemical enterprises, the ecological situation deteriorated. The concentration of harmful substances in the air sharply increased. In 1964, the population of Omsk was about 702 thousand people.

In the 1970s-1980s, Omsk developed rapidly. In 1975, the city’s population exceeded 1 million. The most pressing problem was the ecological situation. Omsk was in the top 10 cities of Russia in terms of environmental pollution. Another problem that required an immediate solution was the development of passenger transport. The capacity of Omsk streets was exhausted, and therefore the construction of the subway became an urgent issue.

The economic crisis that gripped Russia after the collapse of the USSR had a negative impact on the economy of Omsk and the region as a whole. There was a significant decline in industrial production, construction volumes fell, and unemployment rose. A lot of organizations of the defense complex, research institutes, and design bureaus found themselves in a deep crisis without the state defense order.

The share of mechanical engineering and metalworking, light industry, and, to a lesser extent, chemical and petrochemical, forestry and woodworking industries decreased. At the same time, the share of the fuel industry, energy, and construction materials industry began to grow.

In the 2000s, Omsk again became one of the most important economic centers of Western Siberia with a developing mechanical engineering, petrochemical industry, various branches of the woodworking, construction industry, and a highly productive agro-industrial complex. In recent years, Omsk has also acquired the features of one of the largest Siberian centers of entrepreneurship and banking/financial activities.

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On the street in Omsk

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Yak-9 fighter aircraft in front of the aerospace engineering company Polyot in Omsk

The Omsk Cadet Corps

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Omsk - Features

Omsk is located in the south of the West Siberian Plain at the confluence of the Om River into the Irtysh, about 150 km from the border of Russia with Kazakhstan. About 60% of all residents of Omsk Oblast live in Omsk. The City Day of Omsk is celebrated on the first Saturday of August.

The city’s coat of arms is very similar to the first coat of arms of Omsk approved by Empress Catherine II in 1785. It depicts a part of the brick fortifications, which symbolizes the reason for its foundation as a fortress and the center of the Siberian defensive line.

Omsk belongs to the temperate climatic zone with a continental climate of the forest-steppe of the West Siberian belt. It is distinguished by an abundance of sunlight. The average air temperature in January is minus 16.3 degrees Celsius, in July - plus 19.6 degrees Celsius. The highest wind speeds are observed in winter and spring, which is the reason for frequent snow and dust storms.

In the past, the ecological situation in Omsk was very unfavorable. Since 2011, the city’s environmental development rating has increased significantly. This was the result of large-scale modernization of many large industries (including the Omsk oil refinery). Today, road transport is the main source of air pollution in the city.

The level of pollution of the Omsk rivers - Irtysh and Om - remains consistently high. Swimming in them is prohibited. While industrial effluents are becoming more environmentally friendly, sewers are releasing waste products including diesel fuel and petroleum products into the rivers. Dust raised by dust storms is also a serious problem for the city as it contains a lot of harmful substances including lead.

The city’s industry is based on oil refining, petrochemistry, chemical industry, mechanical engineering (production of aerospace equipment, armored vehicles, agricultural equipment). Omsk is a major transport junction - the Trans-Siberian Railway runs through the city from west to east, and the navigable Irtysh River crosses it from south to north. Omsk Airport offers regular flights to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Tyumen, Surgut, Yekaterinburg, Krasnoyarsk, Salekhard, Kazan, Krasnodar, Sochi.

The unfinished subway of Omsk has become famous in Russia thanks to its only one fully built station. Its construction began back in 1992. However, due to funding problems, the completion of the first line was postponed numerous times. In 2019, it was finally decided to permanently stop construction. For local residents, because of the long wait for the completion of the construction, the Omsk metro symbolizes unrealizable hopes, they talk about it with irony.

In Omsk, there are practically no buildings higher than 50 meters, according to this parameter it is one of the lowest cities with a population of over one million. 130 architectural monuments are concentrated in the central part of the city, almost half of the total number.

Main Attractions of Omsk

Dormition Cathedral - the largest church in Omsk located in the very center of the city. The original church was built in 1891-1898. In 1935, it was completely destroyed. In 2005-2007, an exact copy of the building was restored in its original place. This is one of the most beautiful buildings in Omsk. At night, the building is illuminated and looks especially majestic. Tarskaya Street, 7.

Irtysh Embankment - the main walking street of Omsk with a picturesque view of the Irtysh River. Built in the middle of the 20th century, the embankment was reconstructed in the 2000s. You can walk along the alley on foot, ride rollerblades or a bike.

Merchant Batyushkin’s Mansion (1902). This architectural monument is located on the Irtysh Embankment. It is also known as the Kolchak’s House because Alexander Kolchak, the Supreme Ruler of Russia, lived in this building in 1919. One part of the building is occupied by the registry office of the Central District of Omsk. The Center for the Study of the History of the Russian Civil War is also open here. Irtyshskaya Naberezhnaya Street, 9.

Omsk State Museum of History and Local Lore - one of the oldest museums in Siberia and Russia founded in 1878. In total, this museum has over 200 thousand various objects of cultural, historical and artistic value. The museum is especially proud of such exhibits as the cast-iron figures of the Chinese lions Shi-Tzu, presented to the museum from China in 1895, as well as the skeleton of a woolly mammoth almost 3 meters high. Lenina Street, 23?.

Omsk Regional Museum of Fine Arts named after M.A. Vrubel - one of the largest museums of fine arts in Siberia. It has collections of foreign and Russian art from antiquity to the present day. In total, there are over 22 thousand works by painters, graphic artists and sculptors, as well as more than 1.5 thousand rare folios.

Walking through the exhibition halls, you can admire the canvases of Shishkin, Aivazovsky, Surikov, Repin, Serov, Vereshchagin. The exhibition of rare icons dating from the 17th-20th centuries is of constant interest among visitors, as well as a unique collection of jewelry made of precious metals found in the Scythian and Sarmatian burial mounds. Two buildings of the museum are located at Lenina Street 3 and 23.

In November 2019, a new exhibition was opened in a historical building at Muzeynaya Street, 4 - the exhibition of art of the 20th-21st centuries. The Hermitage-Siberia Center is located here too - the first representation of The State Hermitage Museum (the second-largest art museum in the world) beyond the Urals.

Chokana Valikhanova Street - a pedestrian street located in the historic part of Omsk. The street is decorated with abstract architectural forms, flower beds, wrought-iron lanterns. The walking area ends with an observation deck with a picturesque view of the Irtysh River.

Museum of Kondraty Belov . The museum of this landscape painter born in Omsk can be found in a picturesque wooden house, which is considered one of the most interesting architectural monuments of Omsk. The exposition tells about the life and work of Kondraty Belov, as well as about the history of the building itself.

In total, this museum has about 700 exhibits. The permanent exhibition also includes works by Kondraty Belov’s son Stanislav and paintings by some other local artists. In addition, temporary exhibitions of contemporary Omsk artists are regularly held here. Chokana Valikhanova Street, 10.

Plumber Stepanych Monument - an unusual sculpture located in the center of Omsk, which you can literally stumble upon while walking along Lenin Street between the houses #12 and #14. Leaning out of the hatch, the plumber is depicted as realistic and life-size as possible. It is among the most photographed monuments in Omsk. There is a similar sculpture in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.

Lyuba Monument . This sculpture, located on the opposite side of Lenin Street from the monument to the plumber Stepanych, is especially loved by Omsk residents and tourists, who love to be photographed against its background.

This beauty in a lace dress with a neckline and a crinoline sitting on an openwork bench and reading a novel had a real prototype - Lyubov (diminutively Lyuba or Lyubasha) Gasford, the wife of the Governor-General of Siberia, who lived in Omsk in the 19th century and died at a young age due to illness. One of the streets of Omsk and the park are named in her memory. She is a local symbol of femininity and beauty.

Omsk Fire Tower - a picturesque architectural monument built at the beginning of the 20th century. Inside the tower there are museum expositions dedicated to the local fire brigade and the history of tower construction. Internatsionalnaya Street, 41?.

Park of Culture and Rest named after the 30th anniversary of the Komsomol - a popular place for walks, recreation and entertainment of Omsk residents and tourists, which has retained “the spirit of the Soviet era” in its name. Today, on an area of 73 hectares, several zones have been organized, various types of recreation are presented. There are walking alleys, ponds, water activities, for example, riding on hydro-scooters.

The ice town is open in winter, the Return of the Dinosaurs exhibition - in summer. The “House Upside Down” exposition is also popular with tourists. This park is a place for mass festivities, city celebrations and events. Maslenitsa, Christmas, City Day, and other holidays are celebrated here. Maslennikova Street, 136.

Natural Park “Bird Harbor” - a specially protected area located on the path of bird migration in the central part of Omsk. During autumn flights, up to 3 thousand birds stop here for rest. It is a great place to enjoy nature, walk along the eco-trail, and observe the life of birds. The park is situated in the floodplain on the left bank of the Irtysh River next to the Victory Park on Yeniseyskaya Street.

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Bogdan Khmelnitsky Monument in Omsk

Lenin Monument in Omsk

Churches of Omsk

Chapel of St. George in Omsk

Cathedral of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Omsk

Cathedral of the Nativity in Omsk

Sights of Omsk

Fountain with frogs in the park next to the main building of the Agricultural Academy in Omsk

Author: Alexey Pavlov

Church of St. Nicholas in Omsk

Exaltation of the Holy Cross Cathedral in Omsk

Author: Stanislav Vosinsky

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