In the downtown of Gori there is a house museum of the founder of the Soviet Union, dictator Joseph Stalin. Museum was opened in 1939; it consists of several parts: 1. One-story two-room building constructed with brick and air brick where Stalin was born and lived until 1883. Rooms maintain family items; 2. Marble protective shelter over this house (architect M. Neprintsev, built in 1937); 3. Two-story Stalin-architecture- style building of museum (architect A. Kurdiani, 1957) with 6 halls where exibits related to Stalin’s biography are exposed; 4. Rail car which served Stalin during his travels, including those to International conferences; 5. 6-meter bronze monument of Stalin which was installed in 1952 in downtown Gori, on the square, and was dismantled in 2010 and moved to the courtyard of the museum as an exibit.

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