The best sights of Kalyazin with photos and descriptions

Lost on the southeastern outskirts of the Tver region, stands the small provincial town of Kalyazin. To be absolutely precise, its location is 180 kilometers from Moscow, on the banks of the Volga, where the Zhabnya River flows into it. The city has a rich historical past, as it was founded in 1775 on the site of the ancient settlement of Nikola na Zhabne. Yaroslavskoe and Dimitrovskoe highways lead to it from Moscow, or you can get there in 3 hours by bus from Savyolovsky station. Despite the small population of 12,840 people and the small size of Kalyazin itself, it deservedly enjoys the attention of the huge number of tourists who visit it annually. And this is not just like that. Kalyazin is called the Russian Atlantis. There really is a lot to see and do. We present to your attention the most important sights of Kalyazin with photos and descriptions, addresses and names. Go!

Bell tower of St. Nicholas Cathedral

In the last century, there was a grandiose construction project associated with the creation of hydroelectric dams in the riverbed of the Volga, which would provide electricity to this large region. As a result, part of Kalyazin was flooded. The cathedral was also sunk, from which only the bell tower remained. A lighthouse was built from a high belfry. Subsequently, the base of the bell tower was strengthened with an artificial island.

How to get there?

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There will be no difficulties with how to get to the village. Regular buses run regularly. The Moscow-Kalyazin bus departs from Tushinskaya station every four hours. The drive to the city is 3.5 hours. Trains to Kalyazin will not seem tiresome. Along the way, you will have views from the window of picturesque landscapes.

You can also use the branded train No. 602Ya Moscow - Rybinsk. Boarding takes place at the Belorussky railway station twice every seven days. The duration of the trip is 4 hours. If you are traveling in the summer, you can use the trailed carriage of train No. 607A St. Petersburg - Yaroslavl.

If you are looking for the fastest travel option, then choose a private car. You will travel along the M-8 Kholmogory highway and along the A108, P104 road. Your travel time is just under three hours. Upon arrival, there will be no difficulties with parking. Most parking lots are free.

The waterway brings tourists from May to October. Traveling on a cruise ship is incredibly exciting. All liners depart from the northern river station of Moscow. Please check the dispatch time in advance.

Travel around the city is smooth. Industrial, residential and central areas are connected by bus service. The interval between flights is 60 minutes.

Kalyazin Radio Astronomy Observatory

28 years ago, an observatory was built on one of the hills in the vicinity of the city, whose employees are studying complex natural phenomena. Tourists are not allowed to enter the complex. But many amateur photographers manage to find good high points for interesting photographs of the grand radar.

Hotels, restaurants, beaches, souvenirs

In the central part of the city of Kalyazin there is a well-equipped beach. It offers a beautiful view of the bell tower, which was once flooded. In addition, you will find well-equipped recreation areas near the Kalyazin yacht club.

Beach holiday amenities (sunbeds, umbrellas, etc.) are not provided. These are points for lovers of independent, budget holidays.

The roads are unpaved and it is quite possible to travel by car. The purest water is in the tributaries of the Volga.

Holidays on the Volga are a common option for spending time. Recreation centers are equipped with everything necessary for quality leisure time. You can combine excursions with outdoor activities. And for the most daring, Kalyazin offers a holiday on the Volga with tents.

Park Hotel "Kalyazin" is one of the popular holiday destinations located in a picturesque area. The area has modern amenities and there is a large parking lot. You can choose a room to suit any budget.

The hotels here offer an excellent level of service. However, their number is small. These are mostly cozy, small hotels and guest houses. There is a suitable solution for any budget. For those who love nature, Ponkratovsky Bor is suitable for camping.

Every tourist, when going on a trip, thinks about the question of what to bring as a souvenir. The place is a real treasure trove of healthy berries and aromatic mushrooms. Gifts of nature are sold in markets, shops, along highways. Popular souvenirs are magnets, plates, jewelry, felt boots made of sheep wool.

There are few catering establishments here, the kitchen only serves Russian dishes. The menu features dishes prepared from environmentally friendly products. This is mainly milk, fish, meat, mushrooms, vegetables, fruits, berries. Baking and homemade food are popular. The portions are large and the price is low. Set lunches are in demand.

Restaurants offer a more refined menu and the prices are much higher.

Former city hall building

The two-story brick building of the 19th century was originally built as an educational and administrative building, which housed the city school, city government and police station. The wooden tower in the center of the building served as a fire observation tower. The building with large windows and high ceilings was very saturated with sunlight and air and therefore convenient for the simultaneous presence of a large number of people.

Historic mansions

Although the historical part of the city of Kalyazin was flooded, fortunately, the former Moskovskaya Street, now Karl Marx Street, on which the ancient mansions of wealthy citizens are located, has been preserved. They help restore the image of Kalyazin before the flooding and take tourists into the atmosphere of the city’s historical past.

House of merchants Semyonovs

• Address - st. Karl Marx, 6.

The Semenovs were the owners of a starch factory and the largest landowners in the city of Kalyazin. This building was erected in the 19th century. At that time, the eclectic architectural style was in fashion, expressed in the intricate decoration of the facade and window frames of various shapes.

House of the Korovkin merchants

• Address - st. Karl Marx, 8.

The Korovkins were large homeowners and landowners. In addition, Korovkin I.A. served as mayor of the city from 1898 to 1917.

Their mansion is one of the most famous buildings. It was built in the early 19th century and is stunningly beautiful. The central windows, decorated with original frames, located under the pediment, painted with fancy patterns, attract the attention of city guests.

After the revolution, the Kalyazin Emergency Committee was located in the house; later a junior school was organized here, then an orphanage and, finally, an evening school.

House of merchants Ryzhkov

• Address - st. Karl Marx, 1.

This family, which also made a great contribution to Kalyazin’s past, owned the Ryzhkov Trading House. Their house was built in the style of early classicism and baroque. The deep arch over the main entrance and the beautiful mezzanine, combined with carved platbands, make a lasting impression. Once the estate was located in the very center of one of the main streets of the city, but after the famous flooding it turned out to be right next to the water and closest to the flooded bell tower.

House of Merchants Lyakhovs

• Address - st. Karl Marx, 12/15.

This is a stunningly beautiful building from the mid-19th century. At the very beginning of the 20th century, it was bought from the Lyakhov merchants by the city treasury and given over to the city duma. From 1908 to 1918 it housed a women's gymnasium, and today the Kalyazin Pedagogical School operates there.

Kalyazin College named after. Polezhaeva

• Address - st. Lenina, 36.

In 1903, Kalyazin opened its own school. Its building was built according to the design of the architect R.R. Marfeld through the means of the merchant N.M. Polezhaeva. It is shaped like the letter “P” with a complex asymmetrical composition.

Many craftsmen of different specialties took part in the construction and, according to the then existing tradition, several gold coins were placed in the corners.

In 1933, the school changed its status and became an industrial Polytechnic College. During the war, defense products were produced in the workshops of the technical school. Now it is a college that graduates specialists in various fields: from accountants to computer scientists.

Former city hall building

• Address - st. Karl Marx, 22/20.

It was erected in 1881-1883. as the Public House, where the city's public institutions, such as the police department, the zemstvo government and the city school, were gathered.

The building was built in a mixture of romanticism and classicism styles and stands out among the buildings of Kalyazin with an unusual observation tower that served as a fire tower. Today it is used as a high school.

Museum of Local Lore

The temple, built in the 18th century after the revolution, like most similar structures, ceased to serve people for its intended purpose. The fact that it was not demolished, but converted into a local history museum gives hope that one day the bells will ring over the church again. In the meantime, there is a museum here that has managed to collect thousands of exhibits telling about the history of the city over a hundred years.

Places for families with children

Those who like to relax with their families in Kalyazin also have something to offer to interest the little guests of the city.

Museum complex "Tarchevskaya Sloboda"

• Address: Tarchevo village.

“Tarchevskaya Sloboda” is a whole complex of museums dedicated to introducing ancient Slavic culture, from its very origins to the present. They are located on the banks of the Volga in the village of Tarchevo, very close to Kalyazin. On the territory of the museum complex there are museums of Slavic dolls, Beekeeping and Tarchevskaya Sloboda.

Museum of Slavic dolls. In it, guests will be introduced to the history of the creation of hand-made dolls, their variety and purpose, and will also share the secrets of their manufacture.

Beekeeping Museum. Curious visitors will learn here the history of the origin of beekeeping in Rus', called beekeeping. A colossal exhibition of all stages of the development of the bee breeding industry is presented here.

Tarchevskaya Sloboda. It is famous for having its own livestock farm, where it is easy to learn the basics of caring for pets. Various master classes on the topics of the museum complex are also held here, designed not only for adults, but also for children.

Felted shoe factory

This unusual production is located not far from Tarchevskaya Sloboda. The factory works and actively cooperates with various countries, such as Finland, Sweden, Norway and many others, supplying them with felted shoes. There is a museum attached to it where you can see how the warmest shoes in the world are produced using ancient technologies and modern equipment.

Baba Yaga's estate

• Address: Solonovka.

It was created by local residents over several years. The area of ​​the estate is small, but there is Leshego’s house, a well with Vodyanoy, a mill, a bathhouse, a workshop, and even a refectory with refreshments.

All buildings are made of wood and designed in a fairy-tale style. The area is fenced with a palisade, against which a boat with fishing gear is leaning. Wooden figurines of fairy-tale characters are placed throughout the yard.

To participate in the interactive program with the participation of Baba Yaga, you need to take care of tickets in advance. But even without them there is something to do here. So, you can take pictures and buy funny souvenirs. This is also a great opportunity to visit a fairy tale.

House of Crafts

• Address - st. Comintern, 81.

Kalyazin craftswomen took up lace-making in the 17th century, when Tsarina Maria Ilyinichna Miloslavskaya herself came to Kalyazin with her needlewomen to wait out the plague epidemic. This small town then became for a time the center of the Russian state.

Since then, lace making has become the main craft of the women of Kalyazin. Lace woven with bobbins instantly spread throughout Russia and Europe. But by the end of the 20th century. this craft was almost lost.

There are only two lacemakers left in the whole city. It was then that the House of Crafts was opened - to preserve the ancient craft. Master classes on bobbin lace making, wood carving, and making amulets dolls are held here. There is a small shop at the attraction that sells original products and souvenirs.

Yacht club "Kalyazin"

• Address: Rybzavoda village.

This is a popular place with tourists. Especially in summer. There is everything for a pleasant pastime - various berths for yachts, a summer cafe with a picturesque view, a helipad, areas for receiving tourist groups.

And for little Kalyazin residents, the club has created conditions for sailing. But that's not all. The owner of the establishment, Vladimir Olenin, opened a snail farm there, where they grow grape snails. Reviews say that this is the only production of this type in Russia that deals with snails all year round.

This farm has a tasting room where you can try a snail delicacy with white wine, and nearby local craftswomen sell unique souvenirs - knitted snails.

Vvedenskaya Church

The church was built at the end of the 19th century in a cemetery where local nobility had funeral services and were buried. A small church made of red brick in the shape of a quadrangle and hipped domes. A small bell tower with ringing bells adorns the building. The main value today is the relics of St. Macarius of Kalyazin stored here.

Modern objects interesting to visit

Kalyazin, whose attractions can be modern in nature, attracts tourists in this direction as well. The modern features of this city add additional color against the backdrop of historical sites.

Radio telescope RT-64

This radio telescope, 180 m high, belongs to the Kalyazin Radio Astronomy Observatory. The giant plate of this object looks very impressive even from afar.

It is prohibited for outsiders to visit the observatory, but you can contemplate it from the outside when leaving Kalyazin towards Uglich.

Abandoned sanatorium

Very close to Kalyazin, on a peninsula in the Paulino forest area, there is an impressive unfinished Soviet-era cardiological sanatorium. This facility was built by the Ministry of Defense from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. and was designed for 500 seats.

The unfinished sanatorium attracts representatives of technogenic tourism.

Humpback Bridge

In 1935, a bridge across the river was built in Kalyazin. Zhabnya, which connected Zarechye with the old town. The configuration of the upper part of the bridge looks truly humpbacked. The panoramic view of this object allows us to classify it as a local feature.

Ascension Church

The temple, classic for the 18th century, differs from similar buildings in its rather high bell tower. The three tiers of the bell tower with columns are topped with a high spire, which is very reminiscent of the belfry of the famous St. Nicholas Cathedral. It is noteworthy that after the revolution, on the territory of the cemetery adjacent to the church, the Bolsheviks built a stadium, completely erasing the memory of their ancestors.

Funny name Zhabnya

And here comes the Volga. Ha, the mistake is not the Volga yet, but only its tributary - the Zhabnya River. Who could tell why she was given such a frog nickname? Or did it come from the buttercup-like medicinal plant toadwort?

There are cars along the shore selling fish. We stop and ask the price. And oats, that is, the catch, is not cheap these days: a small roach costs 100 rubles, a small smoked greenling costs 200 rubles... I sighed sadly - on the Western Dvina for that kind of money they bought such a huge fish.

Monument to M. V. Skopin-Shuisky

In memory of the victorious Russian-Lithuanian battle near Kalyazino in 1609, when the Russian troops were led by Skopin-Shuisky, a unique monument was erected. The composition consists of two boulders, one on top of the other. On the bottom there is a bas-relief of a military leader, above the top there is a large eagle holding prey in its talons - Lithuanian banners.

Snail farm

The only snail farm in the Tver region and the largest snail farm in Russia is located in Kalyazin.
Not only is it a high-tech enterprise, equipped with modern equipment, including an automatic fogging system, maintaining humidity and temperature, but on its territory there is a museum and a tasting room. The museum presents a unique collection of snails, and also allows visitors to learn the history of the appearance of snail farms, their development and the use of snails in economic activities. Many exhibits exist only in a single copy and were grown in Kalyazin specifically for the museum.

The tasting room is designed in a style typical of French Provence and is aimed at marketing. Visitors to the excursion are introduced to unusual dishes, which are necessarily accompanied by a glass of white wine.

Address : pos. Fish factory, Kalyazin, Tver region, 171573

Monument to Macarius Kalyazinsky

In honor of the man who founded the Trinity-Kalyazin monastery, a monument was erected in one of the most beautiful places near the coast of the reservoir. Bronze Macarius appears to be emerging from a white church and addressing its parishioners. Behind this monument, the bell tower of the St. Nicholas Cathedral, which was flooded by the reservoir, is clearly visible.

Hotels

For recreation and accommodation in Kalyazin and near it there are a number of hotels and inns.

These include:

1. Hotel Kalyazin (Zavodskaya St., 17A/2) – a restaurant with a bar, a billiard room and a parking lot are available for residents. The rooms are air conditioned and pet friendly. The cost of a single room is 1.5 thousand rubles, a double room is 2.5 thousand rubles, a triple room is 3.5 thousand rubles. Prices are for standard rooms.

2. Guest house “Usadba 1” (Kommunisticheskaya str., 1) is a cozy hotel with 8 rooms. It has everything you need for a comfortable stay, including laundry and free internet. The cost of accommodation, which starts from 3.5 thousand rubles, includes free parking.
3. Hotel "Deck" (Kalyazinsky district, Myshino village) - a hotel with 6 rooms on the banks of the Zhabnya River. It has a full range of services for residents. In addition to this, it has its own beach and pier. The cost of living in this hotel starts from 2.5 thousand rubles.
4. Mini hotel “Guest Dvor” (Kalyazinsky district, Vasilevo village, Sovetskaya str., 20) is a two-story cozy building with 12 rooms with kitchens. There is parking, a recreation area and a bathhouse. The rooms have a TV and refrigerator, toilet and shower. Free breakfast is provided in the morning. Accommodation price – from 700 rub.
5. Recreation center "Prichal" (Kalyazinsky district, Pankratovo village, 55) - guest houses on the river bank. The rooms have a seating area, free internet, and some have a kitchen. In addition to the usual services, guests of the base are given the opportunity to go fishing and various walks. Cost of living – from 5 thousand rubles.

"Humpback Bridge"

The Kashinsky Bridge connecting the two banks of the Volga was built in 1919 and still continues to serve as a crossing for rail and road transport. Pedestrians also have the opportunity to cross it to both banks of the Volga. The length of the bridge is four hundred meters, the width of each span is one hundred meters.

Where is the flooded city of Kalyazin located?

And the town of Kalyazin itself is located on the right bank of the Volga, 190 km from Moscow. And from Tver at about the same distance.

You can get to Kalyazin from Moscow from Savelovsky station by train; in Savelovo, change to the train to Kalyazin. You can also take a bus from the same Savelovsky station. But, of course, the most convenient way is to travel by car from Moscow along the Yaroslavskoye Highway towards Sergiev Posad, and then head north towards Uglich and Rybinsk.

That's how quickly our one-day excursion ended, a short tour to Kalyazin. Time flew by. But for you to know what to see in Kalyazin in one day, I took excellent photos describing the sights of Kalyazin. The town left in my soul a quiet sadness and a state of some kind of pity from its provincial neglect!

You can find all the sights of Kalyazin on the city map (it can be enlarged by clicking on “+” to better view the territory).

Our trip to Kalyazin took place on July 12, 2016. And then our path lies to the city of Rybinsk, from where we will take a ride through other nearby Volga cities: Uglich and Myshkin.

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Other sights of the Tver region, where I was able to visit, are on this map.

Share in the comments which provincial Russian cities you have visited and which of them made the most unforgettable impression.

Uglich Reservoir

An artificially created reservoir with a number of dams makes it possible to provide electricity to the population and enterprises of many Russian cities. Its length is 146 kilometers and its width is 5 kilometers, which is very convenient for organizing shipping.

Weather. Best time to travel

A temperate continental climate prevails in Kalyazin. Winters here are moderately cold and long, and summers are relatively short but quite warm. The average annual precipitation is 606 mm. The warmest temperature occurs in July and the coldest in January.

Annual climate changes in Kalyazin can be described as follows:

Tourists choose the time of year most suitable for visiting Kalyazin according to their preferences. The most suitable option for traveling here would be the summer and winter months, when you can combine educational excursions with active recreation. September and May also look like attractive times to stay in Kalyazin.

The temperature during these months is comfortable and precipitation does not reach high levels.

Baba Yaga's estate

In the village of Solonovka near Kalyazin, on a small private territory, an amazing open-air museum was created for lovers of Russian fairy tales and folklore - Baba Yaga's Estate. Children have especially strong emotions after visiting this place - right in front of the gates, guests are greeted by a real fairy-tale villain with a broom and a hooked nose and given a tour of her property. And there really is something to see here:

• A hut on chicken legs
• Vodyanoy's House
• Leshy's House
• Meet Domovov and Kikimora

The territory of the estate is decorated with wooden figurines of animals and fairy-tale creatures. All buildings and decorative elements are made of natural wood.

Address : st. Rechnaya, 21, Kalyazin, Tver region, 171573