Kalyazin
A tiny town with a population of 12,000. Kalyazin is known for the Kalyazin Bell Tower. Everyone has seen photos of the flooded church.
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There is absolutely nothing left in the city because the damn Bolsheviks flooded the entire old town while building the Uglich hydroelectric power station.
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Kalyazin traders sell junk:
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Marxism and Leninism are disintegrating.
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As for entertainment in the city, there is an exhibition of painted eggs.
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Streets in the city center:
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Kalyazin marriage office:
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God forbid getting married in Kalyazin.
Uglich
Uglich is bigger than Kalyazin. There are 32 thousand people living here, but the streets are still in ruins.
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There are a couple of places to see in Uglich. The local Kremlin has preserved a building from 1480, which housed the chambers of the Uglich princes. Prince Dmitry, the son of Ivan the Terrible, lived here.
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The rest of the buildings in the Kremlin are not particularly interesting. Another cathedral from the 18th century.
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Street art inside.
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The building of the city council.
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A cool wooden house.
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In the center of Uglich, there is a square that has been inherited from the USSR — it is evident from the pointless emptiness flooded with asphalt where marches in honor of endless days of labor and their metastases once passed.
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The city is so poor that there is not even enough money to install roofs on bus stops.
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Never mind the bus stops, there is not enough money even to lay decent paths in the dachas of the Orthodox priests.
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It is unclear who and why built a giant hotel “Volzhskaya Riviera” in Uglich.
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God forbid being born in Uglich.
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