Ulyanovsk Region

Ulyanovsk is named after Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin). Here, the leader of the 1917 Revolution was born and lived until he was 17 years old. Before that, by the way, the city was called Simbirsk, and even earlier - Sinbirsk. And it has nothing to do with Siberia. In addition to the house-museum, there is another place devoted to Lenin on the hillside of the Volga: the geoglyph, the inscription of planted barberry bushes reading: ‘LENIN’. The inscription appeared on the 100th anniversary of the leader’s birth.

Ulyanovsk is the birthplace not only of Lenin, but also of historian Nikolai Karamzin. He was the first to print the Russian letter ‘Ё’ in his works. To remind Russians how the absence of this letter can change the meaning of a word, a granite monument depicting the letter ‘Ё’ was installed in the center of Ulyanovsk in 2005.

The region is also famous for its Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant (UAZ), relict forests and the stunning Sengiley Mountains National Park.