The city of Rybinsk is relatively young - it is about 240 years old, although historians argue with this date, saying that he is seven hundred more. Be that as it may, Rybinsk is a completely European city, and there are no buildings older than the 18th century buildings.
However, this does not deprive him of many attractions. What is its only location, on the picturesque banks of the beautiful Volga. Earlier for this reason, he was exclusively merchant. Barges on the river were so tight that according to recorded eyewitness accounts, it was possible to walk on foot to the other bank of the Volga. But let us turn to other sights of Rybinsk.
Savior Transfiguration Cathedral, Rybinsk
By right, this Cathedral is considered the pearl of the historic center of the city. Initially, this place was a wooden church in honor of Up. Peter, the patron saint of all fishermen. In the 17th century a stone church was built on the wooden place and renamed in honor of the Transfiguration of the Lord. It became a cathedral in 1778. And in 1804, next to it was built a tall stone bell tower with columns.
However, due to the rapid growth of the population of Rybinsk, the Cathedral has ceased to accommodate all those who wish to pray, so in 1838 it was dismantled and rebuilt for a larger one. It began to be called "the beauty of the Volga region", truly being such. Surprising not only the exterior decoration of the Cathedral in the form of grandiose domes and picturesque columns, but also its interior, which uses white marble, granite slabs, gilded silver.
Museum-Reserve in Rybinsk
Slaven Rybinsk and its museum-preserve. It is known as one of the best museums on the whole of the Volga. More than 100 thousand items were found in it.
The building of a new grain market was built in 1912 in the Old Russian style. The architect of the project was A.V. Ivanov, who at that time was the architect of the Kremlin in Moscow. The new stock exchange was built as a necessity, which arose as a result of the growing authority of the Rybinsk stock exchange in the trade circles of Russia.
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In general, Rybinsk was previously famous for its bread trade. He was even compared to Chicago , because he was inferior to him in terms of sales of this necessary food product.
Today the building of the exchange houses the Rybinsk State Historical and Architectural Museum, as well as an art museum-reserve.
Parks of Rybinsk
The city of Rybinsk is very green and thanks to this cozy. It has parks, squares, alleys, embankments, where it is so nice to stroll. One of the largest and most famous parks is the Rybinsk Petrovsky Park. It is located on the left bank of the Volga, high and picturesque.
Petrovsky Park was originally a homestead with Petra Mikhalkov and his family from the 18th century. It was in his honor that the park was named. Here, much has changed, completed, and experienced changes. However, after two hundred years of ownership of the Mikhalkov estate, and during the period of its transformation into the city recreation park, it retained its primordiality, its former charm, as a silent witness of times and changes.
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In addition to this park in Rybinsk there are such wonderful places as Volzhsky Park, Kryakinsky Park, Volga Embankment.
What else is worth seeing in Rybinsk?
In addition to the described attractions in Rybinsk there are many interesting places. This is the Burlak Monument, the Rybinsk Reservoir, the Rybinsk Bridge, the House of Artists, the Nikolskaya Chapel, the Red Gostiny Dvor, and the Flour Gostiny Dvor. The list can be continued again and again, but each will choose for himself what he likes. And to every guest the city will certainly like it and will be imprinted as a bright and pleasant memory.
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