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.

Kalyazin’s flooded bell tower standing in the water

There is absolutely nothing left in the city because the damn Bolsheviks flooded the entire old town while building the Uglich hydroelectric power station.

Kalyazin streets after the old center was flooded An everyday view of modern Kalyazin

Kalyazin traders sell junk:

Souvenir vendors on a Kalyazin street

Marxism and Leninism are disintegrating.

A decaying Soviet era monument in Kalyazin

As for entertainment in the city, there is an exhibition of painted eggs.

An exhibition of painted eggs in Kalyazin

Streets in the city center:

A street in central Kalyazin Another street in central Kalyazin Houses in central Kalyazin An everyday view of Kalyazin streets

Kalyazin registry office:

The marriage registry office in Kalyazin

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.

A neglected street in the town of Uglich

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.

The fifteenth century chambers of the Uglich princes

The rest of the buildings in the Kremlin are not particularly interesting. Just another 18th-century cathedral.

An eighteenth century cathedral in Uglich’s kremlin

Street art inside.

Street art inside a cathedral in Uglich

The building of the city council.

The city council building in Uglich

A cool wooden house.

An old wooden house in Uglich

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.

A broad paved square in central Uglich

The city is so poor that there is not even enough money to install roofs on bus stops.

A roofless bus stop in Uglich

Never mind the bus stops, there is not enough money even to lay decent paths in the dachas of the Orthodox priests.

A path beside houses in Uglich

It is unclear who and why built a giant hotel “Volzhskaya Riviera” in Uglich.

The large Volzhskaya Riviera hotel in Uglich

God forbid being born in Uglich.

Another view of Uglich’s poor streets
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