| The Museum of Fine Arts (196 Sovietskaya St; Tue-Sun 9-17:00):
Dedicated to Kyrgyz folk and applied art and Russian and Soviet art, the museum began as the State Picture Gallery and was located in the St Nicholas Church in Oak Park. The church now houses the Gallery of the Artists Union. The building was constructed in 1974 as one of the projects in the grand scheme for improving the capital and features a yurt and permanent shyrdaks and other traditional craft exhibition. The full collection numbers some 17,500 works. There are also several galleries of paintings from the soviet period, replicas of Egyptian, Greek and classical Western sculptures and a collection of linocuts based on the Manas epic by Hertzen.
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