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Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center

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Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center
Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center, also known simply as the Yeltsin Center, is a social, cultural and educational center, which opened in Yekaterinburg in 2015. The architect of the project is Boris Bernaskoni, the founder of BERNASKONI interdisciplinary bureau that works on intersection of architecture, communication, art and industrial design.

One of the main objects of the center is Boris Yeltsin's Museum, dedicated to the contemporary political history of Russia and Boris Yeltsin, its first president.

In 2017, the Yeltsin Center was recognized as the best museum in Europe by the Council of Europe, the first of the museums in Russia.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)。Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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