Vyazma

Vyazma is a small town with a population of 52 thousand people in the Smolensk region, founded in 1239.

There is only one bright moment in Vyazma’s history: in 1654-1655, the Russian government got stuck here while a plague epidemic raged in Moscow.

By and large, there is nothing in the town.

An ordinary street in Vyazma

The Trinity Cathedral is quite old, built in 1676, but looks ordinary.

The seventeenth century Trinity Cathedral in Vyazma

There is another church with a crooked cross.

A church with a leaning cross in Vyazma

I found a monument to the heroes of the 1812 war. I wonder if anyone in Vyazma traces their ancestry back further than the revolution?

A monument to heroes of the 1812 war in Vyazma

City center.

Streets in central Vyazma

Palace of Culture.

A cultural center in Vyazma

If only ordinary houses were decorated with the same splendor as the churches.

An ordinary residential building in Vyazma

Pile-up.

A cluster of buildings on a Vyazma street

Wasteland.

A poor urban neighborhood in Vyazma

Everyday life.

Everyday life on a Vyazma street

There are several decent-looking houses in the town, at least from the facade.

An attractive building facade in Vyazma

There is a pizza place called Dodo.

A Dodo pizza restaurant on a Vyazma street

There is a nauseating coffee shop next to the household goods store.

A cafe beside a hardware store in Vyazma

There is nothing else in Vyazma.

Another view of Vyazma’s streets

So naive this Vyazma is.

A modest cityscape in Vyazma
Smolensk
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