More than 100 meters off the
coast at Cape Tarhankut, the westernmost part of Crimea, at a depth of 10 to 12
meters is a distinctive museum of sculptures. The unique underwater museum has more
than 50 sculptures and busts of former Soviet leaders including Lenin, Stalin,
and Marx, as well as beautiful replicas of some of the world’s iconic
attraction such as the Eiffel Tower of Paris and London's Tower Bridge.
The museum, also known as "Alley
of Leaders", was created in 1992 by scuba diver Vladimir Broumenskyy, a
native of Donetsk. Therefore the Soviet Union had just shrunken and there was
an surplus of broken statues and busts of communist leaders that the eclectic
crowds had pulled down from their pedestals. Moreover some of those went to
Moscow where it became “Park of the Fallen Heroes”. Furthermore Vladimir
Broumenskyy gets together a few and took them with him to Cape Tarhankut where
he sunk them into the sea. Hence the underwater museum has been growing ever
since with new exhibits, and being situated at an already trendy scuba diving
site, the exclusive museum has never complained about lack of visitors.
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