Veliky Ustyug is a small ancient city, which preserved monuments of culture under the open sky. The merchant houses, a picturesque embankment, ancient church and the behavior of Santa Claus attract tourists and in winter, and in the summer.

Description and History of the Great Ustyug

Great Ustyug is the ancient city of Northern Russia on the merger of the rivers Sukhona and South. It is 450 km from Vologda, not far from the Kirov and Arkhangelsk regions. The number of residents of the city exceeds 31 thousand people, and the area is 17 km 2.

Based on Veliky Ustyug in 1147. Passing by the trading tract has become an important reason for creating settlements on the local land, and the construction of the Mikhailo Arkhangelsk monastery in 1212 contributed to the development of this city. The name of his great Ustyug acquired thanks to the river South: "Ustyug" - mouth of the south. Later, with Ivan IV, the second name was joined by the second - the "Great", this city in honor of his big role in history (reliable defense from the attacks of Nizhny Novgorod) and high economic status.

Since the XVI century, the settlement was the largest shopping and craft center of Northern Russia. TO XVII century Veliky Ustyug acquired the status of the richest city among Russian lands at the expense of a large turnover of food and worm development. He lost his fame and status in the XVIII century due to the movement of the trading path, and by the XIX century, and at all became the county city of Vologda province. Only by 1937 the Great Ustyug became the district center of the Vologda region.

Nowadays, the city is famous as the patrimony of Santa Claus.

Great Ustyug - Motherland of Santa Claus

How to get

You are not too easy to get to Veliky Ustyug. This rarely train and buses from major settlements and planes almost do not fly. There are several travel options to Veliky Ustyug.

By plane

Though in the town and there is an airport that is located in three kilometers from the very settlement, airplanes fly here only from Cherepovets. Therefore, if you wish to get to the settlement by air, you will need to fly first to Cherepovets:

• from Moscow (Domodedovo and Sheremetyevo), the cost of the ticket from 9300 rubles, time on the way for about an hour;
• from St. Petersburg (Pulkovo), the price of a ticket from 7200 rubles, travel time is also about 60 minutes.

Then you will need to be transferred to the flight to the destination. A facility from Cherepovets to Veliky Ustyug - from 7,000 rubles, the flight takes 55 minutes. There are three flights: in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening.

In Veliky Ustyug there is an airport, but airplanes fly to it only from Cherepovets

To get from the airport to the city, you need to take a bus number 3 or 146.

By rail

Railway station in Veliky Ustyug is present, but it works only during the New Year holidays. At this time, specialized "winter expressions", serving from the Yaroslavl railway station in Moscow and Ladoga Station in St. Petersburg. The rest of the time you get straight to Veliky Ustyuga will not succeed. The only option will get to the nearest railway stations:

• "Yadrich", located 54 km from the city;
• Kotlas, located 70 km.

Ticket prices from Moscow start from 2600 rubles, from St. Petersburg - from 2500 rubles. Railway stations will have to get on a bus or taxi.

Winter express to Santa Claus goes to the road from Moscow on January 2

By bus

It is most convenient to reach the bus to the Great Ustyug from Vologda: quite a lot of flights, and the time on the way is small - about 6 hours. Ticket prices start from 800 rubles. This type of transport you can get to the city and from Moscow, and from St. Petersburg:

• moscow flight will cost travelers about 2000 rubles, travel time is about 13 hours;
• a ticket to St. Petersburg bus is about 2,200 rubles, travel time is about 15 hours.

On own cars

By car you can go from Moscow and St. Petersburg:

• the distance from Moscow to the Great Ustyug is about 1000 kilometers, it is necessary to go on the M8 highway through Yaroslavl and Vologda, then turn around the village of Chekshino and follow the signs;
• between St. Petersburg and Great Ustyug about 1,100 kilometers, it is necessary to move on the highway A114 to Vologda, and then on the M8 to the destination.

The road and from the capital, and from St. Petersburg will take about 13 hours, but it should be borne in mind that the Great Ustyug is in the northern Territory, so on the way the weather can deteriorate sharply and this will affect the trip time. In addition, a negative point is the fact that the roads at the entrance to the city are not the best.

From both Russian capitals you can get to Veliky Ustyug on the highway M8

Sights of Great Ustyuga

The city has survived a lot of the most ancient monuments of architecture, which attract all lovers of antiquity. Elegant home merchants are intertwined here with churches of the XVII-XVIII centuries. The geographical location along the river adds a certain charm and attractiveness to the city. And, of course, the most famous landmark of the Great Ustyuga is the patrimony of Santa Claus - makes it one of the most visited cities of Russia in the New Year holidays.

To visit the snow grandfather

In fact, with Santa Claus in Veliky Ustyug, not one is connected, but as many as three sights:

• actually I am
• mail Santa Claus,
• urban residence of Santa Claus.

The patrimony of Santa Claus

Today, Veliky Ustyug is most famous as a city in which Santa Claus lives. Such status, he received due to the nearby entertainment mini-town located nearby, which is considered the birthplace of the fabulous winter hero.

The complex includes an extensive pine park, inside which is located, the mini-zoo, a winter garden, attractions, a variety of ice figures (in winter time). From the entrance the trail trail stretches, which will hold visitors through the magic well, Mikhail Potapovich's bridge, the housewich house and the Polyana twelve months. Professional actors play ideas right on the street, entertaining adults and kids.

In winter, you can ride a sleigh, skiing and cheeks. All over the perimeter of the park are bright cafes from the original Russian cuisine.

House of Santa Claus in Veliky Ustyug built taking into account the best traditions of Russian wooden architecture and open for visitors all year round

Practical information:

• address - Velikyustugi district, Martengskoe s / n;
• work time - daily, excursions are held from 9:00 to 16:30;
• the cost of entry into the territory of victobin is 370 rubles per person, a complex package with excursions costs 1780 rubles;
• you can get:
  • by bus - from the station there are flights from four times a day.
  • by car - you need to go to Givena Street, when leaving the city, go straight 3 km to the sign with the sign of turn left - on behavish.

Readers should be remembered that the cost of visiting and the time of operation of any attractions may vary.

Photo Gallery: Vasta Santa Claus

For the convenience of tourists, at the entrance to the victor, the map is hanging with the indication of all objects located on the territory of the fairy tale trail - this is a special fabulous path for which the child goes with a fabulous character, and throughout the entire trail, the baby is waiting for exciting adventures and funny tests on the territory of the hotel complex " I am facing 10 different comfortable cottages in which a very cozy interior is organized, recreating the atmosphere of houses from Russian fairy tales, and the house of Santa Claus is visible from the window, depending on the weather conditions in Votchin, riding on reindeer and dogs Husky Zoo on the Votchin of Santa Claus It differs from ordinary Russian zoos that instead of small cells there are large enclosures and wooden fences, and around the real forest from all the rooms available in the house of Santa Claus, there is no one look like another, but each of them is created for the convenience of the owner, his assistants and numerous guests are on the wool Lian place in which Santa Claus is gaining magical forces: it is called the Santa Claus glacier, at any time of the year there is cold, constant temperature -11 ° C. On Votchin, each wishes has the opportunity to send festive postcards and letters to friends and relatives with a special stamp and printing

Mail of Santa Claus

Mail is located in the central part of the city in the stylized teremke. Anyone can come here and acquire a souvenir or a memory gift, as well as send a letter to Santa Claus or his relatives. Mail is huge responsibility for children who send their letters here. Increasingly come requests for intangible nature. Together with social services To date, Mail Santa Claus helped 500 kids. Even the elderly people write here, asking for nothing, just talking about themselves.

Write a letter Santa Claus can both children and adults, and the lucky people will even get the answer to their message

Practical information:

• address - Oktyabrsky Lane, House 1a;
• work time - from 9:00 to 18:00.

Beauty Mansion, or City Residence Santa Claus

The building was built in 1876 for the merchant Peter Vasilyevich Krasikov. Ustyuzhanin Nikolai Cherepanov, who chose an eclectic style to build up the architect at home. The first owner lived here for only twenty years, after which she died, and his spouse passed the house of the Riga Kupchikh Matilde Kersten, who organized an apartment on the top floor for himself, and the pharmacy point and a galvanian store opened on the top floor.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the building acquired the Zemskaya Godbarov, who met in it before the creation of the USSR. Then, the executive committee, corporate and library technical schools were placed in the mansion at different times. In the second half of the twentieth century, the house of pioneers functioned.

In the early 2000s, the structure was reconstructed, after which it was given under the city residence of Santa Claus, which includes a greeting card museum, a grandparents and a souvenir shop. Excursions are held here, during which employees tell interesting stories about New Year's holidays and make riddles guys.

In 1995, according to the decree of the President of the Russian Federation, the beautifully beautiful mansion was included in the number of objects historical and cultural heritage federal and all-Russian importance

Practical information:

• address - Soviet Avenue, House 85;
• mode of operation:
  • from Monday to Friday - from 09:00 to 20:00;
  • saturday and Sunday - weekends;
• the cost of the entrance is 100 rubles.

Museum of New Year's toys

The museum located in the old building of the XVIII century - the invalid church of the wives of Mironositz, although it does not belong directly to the master of Santa Claus, but still can be visited in the framework of the New Year's trip. He has existed since 1998, but already absorbed a large collection of New Year's decorations. Here you can see toys for New Year's beauty from glass, porcelain, cotton, wood, clay. There are exhibits relating to the beginning of the 20th century. Excursion will tell you about the traditions of the celebration of the New Year not only in Russia, but also in other countries.

Visitors to the Museum of New Year's toys in Veliky Ustyug can see several trees that are decorated with the principles of a certain decade or century

Practical information:

• address - Commune Square, House 7;
• work schedule - from Tuesday to Saturday from 10:00 to 18:00, lunch break from 12:00 to 13:00;
• ticket price:
  • adult - 100 rubles,
  • children - 50 rubles.
• on public transport, you can get here from the station, go to the "River School" stop.

Cathedral courtyard

Like any other old Russian city, Great Ustyug is rich in churches, cathedrals and monasteries. The Religious Center and its oldest part is the area with churches built in the XVII-XIX centuries - the Cathedral courtyard. The complex is built so that each of the temples standing in the territory is visible from any point. The courtyard includes five religious buildings placed on the Soviet Avenue and the Embankment Street. Special beauty and organic ancient temples Give the location on the high bank of the river Sukhona.

Cathedral courtyard in Veliky Ustyug is located on the river bank and is a unique religious monument

Practical information:

• address - Soviet Avenue, House 62;
• route: You can walk to the Cathedral Card from the station, time in the way will take ten minutes. To do this, we need to walk along Vinogradov Street and roll on the intersection with the intersection of Soviet Avenue, after home No. 12;
• entrance to the facility of the complex is free.

Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Assumption Cathedral is the main temple of the city. He began to be built at the beginning of the XVII century, but soon burned down, and by the end of the century he was again restored by residents of the city. Architecture is distinguished by an original Russian style. In the inner decoration there are frescoes, preserved almost unchanged since the beginning of the existence of the Church. The cathedral bell tower is adjacent to the cathedral, which can be climbed by a narrow staircase and see the entire historical center of the city, as well as the river.

Interior of the Assumption Cathedral, performed in the second half of the XVIII century, is richly decorated with stucco decorations in the form of angels heads, small sculptures, wreaths, lining, eaves

Practical information:

• address - Soviet Prospect, house 81;
• free admission.

Cathedral proofing righteous

The temple was built in 1495 at the site of the burial of the Holy Righteousness of the city - the procopia of Ustyugovsky. Supervised the construction of Ustyuzhanin Peter Kotelnikov. Pythylastic iconostasis with gilding and thread is the main value of the cathedral. The assembly of the XVII century assembly is kept here, among which "Prokopii Ustyuzhsky", "Our Lady and Prokopii Ustyuzhsky in sampling." From the end of the twentieth century, the temple refers to the architectural reserve of the city.

The iconostasis of the Cathedral of the proofer of the righteous in Veliky Ustyug was created in the first half of the XVIII century

Practical information:

• address - Naberezhnaya Street, House 57;
• work time - from 8:00 to 18:00;
• free admission.

Cathedral of John Ustyugovsky

The construction of the temple dates back to the XVII century. It was built in honor of the oborudy, revered by the Holy - John Ustyugovsky. The construction was carried out by merchant Fedor Tutygin on the site of the old wooden church. In the XIX century, the construction has undergone significant changes, therefore it carries several styles at the same time: Baroque, classicism and the Penate Russian style.

At the facade of the Cathedral of John Ustyugovsky, the fresco "Last Supper" was once located, now nothing remains

Practical information:

• address - Naberezhnaya Street, house 56;
• work time - from 8:00 to 18:00;
• free admission.

Church of the Epiphany of the Lord

The temple was erected in 1689. Until this time, rebuilt building, which was rebuilt in 1771, after the old church burned down in a fire. Now it does not work, there is a storage of the Museum-Reserve of the Great Ustyug.

Church of the Epiphany of the Lord today is an inactive temple, so getting inside will not work

Practical information:

• address - Street Naberezhnaya, House 55;
• work time - from 10:00 to 18:00.

Church of Alexy, Metropolitan of Moscow

The church, named after Metropolitan Alexy, has a rich history. In written sources, for the first time, it is referred to at the end of the XV century as a wooden structure. Later, in 1672, the building was rebuilt into a stone-storey and called in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

At the end of the 18th century, the structure was converted again - an additional floor was erected, which in the future became the house church for the bishops, and between the temple and the bindings of the bishops built a transition. Then the church has undergone the restructuring several times, especially because of fires. So far has reached the building, built in the 60s of the XIX century.Now the church is empty and gradually collapsed.

In 1948, the Hospital of Veterans was in the Church of Alexia Patriotic Warand then the building is empty

Practical information:

• address - Naberezhnaya Street, house 58;
• work time - from 10:00 to 18:00;
• free admission.

Dymkovskaya Sloboda

Dymkovskaya Sloboda - district of the city, which preserved the architectural buildings of the XVIII century. It is located on the opposite of the historic part of the Great Ustyug Bank of the Sukhona River. Here, in the XIV century, the first wooden temples dedicated to the victory in the Kulikovsky battle were built. Later they were replaced by stone. The main attractions of Sloboda are:

• church of Dmitry Solunsky;
• church of Sergius Radonezhsky;
• corner tower with goal;
• a small fragment of the fence preserved since 1859.

Dymkovo is a small area of \u200b\u200bthe city, interesting primarily well-preserved architectural ensemble of the XVIII century

Practical information:

• address - Drykovo district;
• how to get:
  • from the city center by car or taxi on the bridge;
  • across the river on the ferry;
  • on the bridge or in the winter on ice (the distance of 7 km can be passed in 40 minutes).

Dmitry Solunsky temple

The church was erected at the end of the XIV century at the board of Dmitry Donskoy. Dmitry Solunsky was considered the heavenly patron of Prince, so the cathedral was named after this saint. Several times the church suffered from fires, so by 1700 it was decided to build it out of stone.

The temple combines local traditions and features of Western Baroque. In 1930, the Soviet government was given to the museum, so it was well preserved. At the moment, the temple does not work.

The stone temple of Dmitry Solunsky reached this day, which was built in Veliky Ustyug in 1700-1708

Temple Sergius Radonezhsky

The construction of the temple took place in the middle of the XVIII century, he was erected next to the Cold Church of Dmitry Solunsky. In the summer, worship was conducted there, and in the winter in this new church. In 1859, thanks to the donations of merchants around two temples, a stone fence with turrets was erected. In the twentieth century, the church was looted, much was destroyed. In the 1980s only in the 1980s, a restoration work was carried out, during which the tent roof was blocked, the surviving tiles were cleared.

The main feature of the church is the preserved interior. Here there is a carved 5-tier iconostasis in the style of Baroque, on the sides of which are columns and pilasters. In Kyota over the altar is a fresco with a multifigure composition with saved in the middle.

In the interior of the Sergievsky temple, tiled furnaces of the XVIII century are preserved, but it will not be possible to get inside the room, since the church is inactive

Both temples are located at: Dymkovo settlement, 1st passage.

Church of Ascension

The temple is distinguished by the rich decoration of the interior and the magnificent architecture. He was erected in the middle of the XVII century a rich merchant Nikifor Tvorikin. Initially, there were 11 chapters on the building, but later due to alterations and restoration, the temple acquired an asymmetric form, and only 5 faceted gears remained.

Big Pieces for windows, an extension with a meerating and adhesive, a bell tower with an angel figure on a spier - all this creates a complex architectural silhouette of the church in a classic style. The interior of the church is a collection of monuments of icon paintings of the XVIII century. Here the iconostasis is preserved in a baroque style, a plant flat-waste carving adorns the altar. In the temple there is a collection of icons of Ustyug Icon Pouring XVII century. The icons "Our Lady of Odigitria Smolenskaya" and "Resurrection of Christ", created by the legendary icon painter of Stefan Sokolov, use the greatest revelation.

Currently, the Ascension Church is the Museum of Old Russian art. Exhibitions are working: "The great devotees of the Earth of the Russian Saints Righteous Prokoki and John, Ustyug Wonderworkers," "Iconsores of the Great Ustyug, ornamental carving, wooden sculpture." The cost of the excursion: adults - 100 rubles, children - 50 rubles. Mode of operation: Tuesday - Saturday from 10:00 to 17:00.

https://ustyug-museum.ru/objekts/voznesenie.html.

Among the numerous temples of the Great Ustyug, the Ascension Church is a mansion, distinguishing the exclusive wealth of decorative decoration that her relatives with famous temples "Royal" Moscow

Address - Soviet Avenue, house 84.

Mikhailo Archangel Monastery

Legends say that the male Mikhailo-Arkhangelsky monastery was erected in 1212 by the monk Cirinean. The priest about it was asked for residents of the nearby settlement. He chose a place and built two buildings on the mound: the church in honor of the introduction of the Most Holy Mother of God and the Cathedral in the name of Arresting Mikhail. However, the fire that happened in the middle of the XVII century destroyed the original wooden abode.

A few years in this place began to revive the new stone monastery. First, Mikhailo-Arkhangelsky Cathedral was built, the church of the introduction to the temple of the Most Holy Virgin and the Vladimir Church. An introduced monastery with stripped and fraternal celians only in 1737.

The most ancient abode of the Russian north - Mikhailo-Arkhangelsky monastery - now does not work and its buildings are gradually destroyed

In 1919, the monastery was closed and redesigned to the concentration camp, which referred to all dismissal Soviet power. In 1924, the position of the monastery improved - he moved into the hands of the museum. At the time of the Second World War in the buildings, the Military Infantry School was organized, and later a motor vehicle. Currently, the monastery is closed, and its buildings are empty.

The address is Pavlo Pokrovsky Street, house 13.

Nikolskaya church

The temple was built in 1682 for donations of merchants. The church is dedicated to the Church of the Icon of St. Nicholas of Gossing (Wonderworker). At this time, the construction is the only preserved example of the Ustyug stone church of the beginning of the XVIII century, in which a cold and warm church is combined under one roof.

In the 30s of the twentieth century, the church was closed, and its building was used as a camp for a forward, and later as workshops. Since 1986, in the construction of the Museum of Ethnography, which can be viewed on household items: embroidery, ceramic dishes, wood carving, wrought iron. And also in one of the halls of the former church recreated the interior of the Russian heaven with the objects of the Holy Peasants. For those who wish, master classes are carried out by flaking.

Multi-metering Nikolskaya Church, as well as a slender bell tower, crowned with high spire, is a wonderful specimen of a peculiar Utyug Architecture of the Middle Ages period

Practical information:

• address - Naberezhnaya Street, house 66;
• opening hours - 10.00-18.00.

Manor Buldakov

The estate built in the ampir style refers to the beginning of the XIX century. She was erected for the local merchant Mikhail Buldakov, glorified as an "earthportman." The household complex includes the main house and two flaglels. Inside the construction managed to partially save the interiors: door loans, stairs, tires.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the manor was redeemed by the city council, and later it was occupied by a male gymnasium. In the 1920s, the building was given to the Institute of National Education, in wartime in the estate, an infantry school was operating, and at the end of the ITH, the construction was divided between the pedagogical technical school and the Great Defense Teacher Institute.

Buldakov's main house in Veliky Ustyug since the construction has undergone significant changes: from a two-story building it turned into a three-storey, redevelopment and changed interiors

Address - Naberezhnaya Street, houses 45, 46 and 47.

Velikoyustugian Pattern Factory

The workshop opened in 1972, when the authorities of the city thought about the preservation of traditional crafts of the Vologda lands. The company produces barking products, decorated with paintings and threads: caskets, wicker baskets, boxes and just small souvenirs in the form of magnets. The technology of manufacturing products from bark bark is kept by masters secret.

Velikyustyugian patterns factory currently produces objects of several hundred different items, ranging from boxes and baskets and ending with cup holders, souvenir cutting boards and decorative plates, boxes, written sets

Practical information:

• address - Vodnikov Street, House 45;
• on the enterprise you can get, only ordered a pre-excursion.

Monuments and sculptures of the Great Ustyug

In Veliky Ustyug, there are not so many interesting monuments, but still there is something to look at tourists:

• monument to Dezhnev. Semyon Dezhnev - hardly the most famous native of the great Ustyug. This is a traveler and the seawater, which became the discoverer of Bering Strait, and also made a serious contribution to Russian geographic science. The monument was established in 1971 on the Soviet Prospect;
  On the pylon behind the monument to Dezhnev in Veliky Ustyug there are bas-reliefs that tell me about episodes from life and traveler's campaigns
• monument to Khabarov. Erofee Khabarov is another native of Ustyuga lands, famous for the fur clan and the opening of new lands. It was thanks to his records that the map of Transbaikalia and the Far East was drawn. And the famous city of Khabarovsk is named in his honor. The opening of the monument occurred in 2015 on Komsomolskaya Square;
  From the youthful years, Khabarov began to engage in fur classes: moving to the east, Yerofee Pavlovich opened new lands rich in natural resources, carefully recorded the impressions and drawn cards
• the sculpture of "Aquarius", dedicated to the birth of the Northern Dvina, which takes its beginning at the merger of the South and Sukhona rivers, was installed in Veliky Ustyug in 1983 on the Embankment Street.
  At the pedestal of the sculpture of "Aquarius", the words of the quatrain, poetically describing the birth of the Northern Dvina

Children in fairy tale

In Veliky Ustyug, a young tourist will not have to miss. The main attractions for the kid will be all that is connected with Santa Claus: Varya, mail, as well as the New Year's Toys Museum. Having visited these places, the child will feel himself visited in a fairy tale and remember the fascinating journey for a long time.

I am a fault of Santa Claus - the most attractive place for children is a place in Veliky Ustyug

In addition, in the museums of the city, tourists with children will be offered special children's excursions and programs:

Great Ustyug in different seasons

Veliky Ustyug can come at any time of the year. It would seem, while the most successful time visits to the Votchiny of Santa Claus are winter holidays, however, if you are traveling to the city in order to inspect local attractions, visit it better in summer. There are many advantages in this:

• weather. In winter, in Veliky Ustyug, it is rather cold, so you will see the sights, constantly combing in nearby establishments. In the summer period in the city there are white nights, and the temperature favors long-term walks;
• lack of tourists. Great Ustyug is hardly the only Russian tourist city in which winter people are more than in the summer. In the cold season, long queues are built in local museums, and in hotels it is almost impossible to remove the room. In the summer, the situation is the opposite;
• holidays. You can get to the festive event in Veliky Ustyuga, not only in winter, but also in the summer, and in the fall. On July 21, there is a day of the city, and the Prokopyevskaya Fair is held, during which enchanting female celebrations are arranged. On November 18, the birthday of Santa Claus is celebrated.

If you want to truly magical and fabulous journey, then rest in Veliky Ustyug in winter - the most right choice

If the purpose of the trip is only a visit to the priests of Santa Claus, then, of course, you need to plan your journey to winter holidays. Winter in the city is cold, but picturesque. Many tourists note that more beautiful winter than in Veliky Ustyug, they did not meet anywhere.

You need to come to Veliky Ustyug at least two days:

• on the first day, you can explore the local attractions, which in the city there are quite a lot;
• the second day is worthwhile to visit the Votchins of Santa Claus, even if the trip was issued for the summer.

If you arrived in the city during a period of a holiday, you can linger on three days, some of which devote festive events.

Where to stay

Naturally, you need to think about your stay in advance and book a hotel for two, or even three months before the trip. For the New Year holidays, the hotel is better to book for half a year, since there are not too much accommodation for tourists in Veliky Ustyug. Here are the most comfortable of them:

What to bring as a souvenir

Most tourists go to Veliky Ustyug as the Motherland of Santa Claus, and not many know that the city is a craft center of Russia. Local craftsmen produce a variety of products that can be brought close as a souvenir:

An ancient city, based on the banks of the Sukhon River in 1207, is exactly the place where it is worth going to travelers who wish not only to get a lot of bright impressions, but also to comprehend the soul of the Russian North, to penetrate him in unique charm. The sights of the Great Ustyug, the photos and descriptions of which you will find in the article are largely unique. The city has existed over 800 years, while maintaining an amazing identity. On his coat, the Antique God of Neptune is depicted, and Santa Claus and Snow Maidochka are depicted in a wonderful palace on one of the streets.

In addition to stunning churches and cathedrals, we will talk about separately, the city has several more characters. See these iconic sights of Great Ustyuga should first.

• Phone: +7 817 385-21-10.
• Address: Settlement Martengskoe. It is better to get here on the shuttle buses from the bus station 4 times a day or by taxi, paying about 200 rubles.

Having done a half-hour trip to the suburb of the Great Ustyug, you will find yourself in the world of Miracles - the fabulous Votchin of Santa Claus. First, guests will be invited to the magnificent Terem, where the favorite Character Folklore lives with his eternally young granddaughter. Here, young and adult visitors will show a throne room, gifts room, storage fairy tales. Excursion will continue to visit the glacier, where Grandfather Frost lives hot summer. A lot of impressions to the child will give a walk through the winter garden - the island of tropics, hazardous by colorful exotic plants. And, of course, children will be able to ride a colorfully decorated slide, to participate in contests and quizzes organized by the animators.

• Address: Soviet Avenue. Stopping transport "Street Lunacharsky".

Semen Dejnev is perhaps the most famous native of the Great Ustyug. Therefore, a monument to the great traveler and the nautical, to which many modern scientists give the laurels of the Bering Strait laurels, the townspeople honor especially. Stone sculpture of Cossack Ataman is installed on a cylindrical pedestal. On the pylon behind his back, bas-reliefs, narrowing about episodes from the life and campaigns of Dejnev, who made an invaluable contribution to Russian geographic science.

• Work schedule: The exhibition hall works on weekdays, from 10:00 to 15:00.
• Phone: +7 817 382-05-10.
• Site: http://www.sevchern.ru.
• Address: ul. Callovsky, 1. Stopping Transportation "Northern Mobile Factory".

The glory of the city of Masters Veliky Ustyugu brought real masterpieces from precious metals, which for more than 300 years they create local masters. Their creations are striking the uniqueness of the inimitable fineness of work. Elegant, undergraded or gold-plated cutlery with a stigma plant is extremely highly appreciated by art historians, more than once received higher awards at prestigious international exhibitions. In the exposition of the exhibition hall, the best creations are presented by the successors of the glorious traditions of the ancient Russian craft, regenerated in the 30s of the last century by the famous M. Chirkov Master.

Delightful temples and churches

The connoisseurs of elegant architecture will receive a huge pleasure from the inspection of the amazing temples of the Great Ustyug. Most churches erected several centuries ago are in good condition, although they are now current.

• Address: Soviet Avenue, 62. Stopping Transport "Lunacharsky Street".

The Assumption Cathedral, consecrated in 1658, is one of the main attractions of the Great Ustyug. The masterpiece of Russian architects has traditional churches of the XVII century. Cubic shape. The eighth of the main dome, like elegant angular turrets, is crowned with gilded bulbies with crosses. A very interesting architecture of a two-party bell tower having a classic masterpiece and a pointed tent dome with a spire. The aspiration of the Diocese of the Cathedral was resting in the cathedral, and his walls were decorated with excellent frescoes, some of which were preserved to the present day. Currently, the temple in which restoration work continues, can only be inspected outside.

• Schedule: Daily, from 8:00 to 19:00.
• Site: http://difo1975.cerkov.ru.
• Address: ul. Embankment, 57. Stopping Transportation "Lunacharsky Street".

Excellent white-mounted temple with underduced domes, consecrated in 1668, built on the site of restoring the proofer of the righteous who lived in Veliky Ustyug and canonized orthodox Church In the middle of the XVI century. The sarcophagus with the relics of which is stored in the temple, several miracles are attributed. Today, the cathedral is simultaneously the museum and the acting church. Be sure to visit here and inspect the delightful carved iconostasis, again rassored gilding after the restoration conducted in the last decade of the last century.

• Address: Soviet Avenue, 86. Stopping Transportation "Lunacharsky Street".

The genuine pearl architecture of the city is considered an amazingly beautiful church of the Ascension of the Lord, consecrated in 1648. Once a magnificent structure, in whose exterior of which the traditions of Byzantine and Old Russian architects are bizarried, 11 trades decorated. The temple hit contemporaries originality of forms, abundance of decorative elements, kokoshnikov, carved sockets, grace of figured drums. After a number of reconstructions, the church became a five-week, but did not lose the originality and charm. Currently, restoration work continues in the temple.

• Address: ul. Embankment, 66. Stopping Transportation "Lunacharsky Street".

The amazing temple in honor of St. Nikolai Gostunsky - the patron saint of the seurrets, appeared in the city at the beginning of the XVIII century, when the Sukhon River was still shipping, and the Great Ustyug was considered a large port, which is still testifies to Neptune, depicted on his coat of arms. Multi-eyed church, like a slender bell tower, crowned with high spire, is a remarkable specimen of the peculiar Ustyug architecture of the Middle Ages. At the end of the last century, the temple was carefully renovated and transformed into the exhibition hall of the Museum of Ethnography.

• Address: Village Morozovitsa, ul. Central, 122.

To see this architectural miracle, even in his now state Without ceasing to admire, no doubt, it is worth doing a four-kilometer journey from the city to the village of Morozovitsa. The monastery complex is impressive by the magnificence of Troitsky and Tikhvin temples erected in the XVIII-XIX centuries. The holy and northern gates are preserved to this day, the watchdog tower. Be sure to inspect the delicious four-tier iconostasis of the Trinity Cathedral, striking the refinement of threads and unique wooden sculptures.

Museums, monuments and sculptures

There will be no problems with leisure to leisure guests. The traveler who came here for the first time finds what to see in Veliky Ustyug, while walking along the quiet streets, and tourists who are interested in history and culture will attract the expositions of local museums.

• Schedule: Daily, except Monday, from 10:00 to 18:00.
• Phone: +7 817 382-34-05.
• / Mus-Icons
• Address: Soviet Avenue, 84. Stopping Mooncharsky Street.

The exhibition of the museum, representing tremendous interest for connoisseurs of filigrants, black silver and finifsty, are placed in the walls of the Ascension Temple. During the excursion, you will be able to familiarize yourself with the magnificent collections of the church utensils of the XV-XVIII centuries, ancient jewelry, excellent art sewing samples. The pearls of the extensive assembly of the icons are the images of the "Lady of Odigitria Smolensk", "Sen of the Tsarist Gate". The main value of the museum, experts consider the White Cross of the Saint Prokoki. Wishing to participate in the master class of icon painting and even try to personally write an image.

• Schedule: daily, except Monday, from 10:00 to 17: 300.
• Ticket price: adult 100 r., Children's 50 p.
• Phone: +7 817 382-35-76.
• Website: http://www.ustyug-museum.ru.
• Address: ul. Embankment, 64. Stopping Transport "Sberbank".

Be sure to visit the wonderful museum of local history, founded in 1910 its expositions are able to please the connoisseurs of art who have seen a lot. A small collection of painting includes Polyenova's brush cloth, I. Aivazovsky, I. Shishkin, A. Vasnetsova. A collection of elegant products from Berestov, made in a unique shemogo style, in general, unique. In addition, the exhibition halls present ancient icons, church utensils, the famous Northern Mobile, artifacts found by archaeologists during excavations on the territory of the once prosperous merchant city.

• Address: Komsomolskaya Square. Stopping transport "Street Lunacharsky".

The honorable place in a number of outstanding researchers-pioneers of the Russian land near Semen Dezhnev is occupied by another native of the Ustyuga Land Erofez Khabarov. From the youthful years, he began to engage in flush fishery, in which quite succeeded. Promoting farther in the east, Erofee Pavlovich opened new lands rich in natural resources, carefully writing impressions and drawing cards. Subsequently, his priceless records became the basis for mapping Transbaikalia and the Far East. Not by chance, the name Khabarova named the largest city on the Amur River.

• Address: Before the building of the river station. Stopping Transportation "Restaurant Ustyug".

Not far from the Great Ustyug is the place of merger of the South and Sukhona rivers, giving the beginning of the main water artery of the North European Land of Russia - Northern Dvina. The original sculpture installed on the urban embankment in 1983 confirms the indisputability of this fact. Antique demigod, stuck with a wound knee, merges the water from two open amphors, symbolizing rivers. At the pedestal, the words of the quatrain, poetically describing the birth of Northern Dvina.

Where to go with children in Veliky Ustyug?

The charming town will please the wonderful surprises of young travelers. Immersion in the world of fairy tales and miracles will bring a lot of bright, memorable impressions.

• Work schedule: from Tuesday to Saturday inclusive, from 10:00 to 18:00. Lunch break from 12:00 to 13:00.
• Ticket price: adult 100 r., Children's 50 p.
• Phone: +7 817 382-35-76.
• Website: http://www.ustyug-museum.ru.
• Address: Commune Square, 7. Stopping Transport "River School".

The unique museum is located in the building now not the current church of Women Mironositz - the monument of architecture of the XVIII century. Its exhibits are various New Year's decorations: from Bethlehem stars and porcelain angels, who dressed up the Christmas trees under Christmas, our grandparents, to the glass and plastic accessories of the holiday, common in our days. Colorful toys from cotton, wood or clay, gorgeous garlands, figurines Snow Maiden and Santa Claus, elegant tips are incredibly colorful. Examination of the exposure will lead the favorite Chado delight.

• Work schedule: Daily, work hours should be clarified by calling the contact phone number.
• Phone: +7 817 385-21-10.
• Site: http://votchina-deda-moroza.ru.
• Address: Settlement Martengskoe, the territory of the Votchina Santa Claus.

One of the main attractions of the victims of Santa Claus is considered a small zoo, founded in 2009 in spacious enclosures built on an area of \u200b\u200b7 hectares, contain about 50 species of animals and birds. Here you will see salmon, deer, foxes, wolves, brown bears, Filinov, Sov, other representatives of the fauna of the Russian North. With some animals, children will be able to play. Those who wish are offered to ride on narts, harnessed likes.

• Schedule: Daily, on weekdays from 9:00 to 18:00, on weekends from 10:00 to 18:00.
• Phone: + 7 817 382-04-84.
• Site: http://www.pochta-dm.ru.
• Address: Oktyabrsky Alley, 1a. Stopping transport "Street Lunacharsky".

In addition to the delightful country victorious in a fabulous Bor, there is a residence in Santa Claus and in Veliky Ustyug. In the elegant historical mansion there is a post office where millions of letters from young Russians are flowing. During the excursion, the kids will tell about how the magic mail works, they will teach the correctness of Santa Claus correctly, will show a magnificent collection of New Year's postcards, including rarities of the beginning of the last century.

Great Ustyug, rightly considered one of the best centers of family tourism in Russia. Arriving here on the Christmas holidays, you will make a delightful New Year's gift to adorable children and yourself. Where, how not here you can feel all the charm of the Russian North, enjoy the delicious charms of winter.

Great Ustyug.
Architectural and artistic monuments of the Great Ustyug.

Great Ustyug is too far both from Moscow (about 900 km) and from St. Petersburg (1100 km). The remoteness of the city from the "Centers of Civilization" is aggravated. The last 70 km of the route to Ustyug can serve as a beautiful landfill for testing the machine for strength, and the driver for mental balance. Newly desire to "see ancient Russia" can be made much easier and cheaper. From Moscow to Suzdal - a little more than 200 km, and from Peter before and less.
The "Deadmorosovshchyna" remains, which exists in the form of New Year's Organized excursions, when the Great Ustyug is packed by the kids who want to join the "fairy tale".
However, not counting the New Year holidays, Great Ustyug really looks like a fabulous city. Just go there it is necessary not in winter, but, for example, late in the spring, in early May, when the snow has already been almost melted, dry and the north and the North Sun enters 11 to rise again over the horizon for about 3 am.

Great Ustyug, first mentioned in the middle of the XII century, the peer of Vologda and Moscow, like other ancient Russian cities, survived numerous fires, treads and enemy invasions. The only thing that his story is favorably different from, and so it is the actual absence of a Mongol-Tatar yga (oh, sorry Comrade Medinsky, "relations of financial dependence between Russia and the Ord"). Veliky Ustyug to K, and that, in turn, was subordinate to Moscow, which was not greatly liked the Novgorod, who claimed the Dvinsky region. At the end of the XIV century, the Tampaña Hischiniks once again ruined the city, taking with them a rich prey, including the Icon of the Virgin, having attached to her rods, like all-time. For this, the wicked people struck God Kara - not far from all of them sick of a terrible disease. Novgorod Archbishop John saved his countrymen, served prayer and promising returning everything abducted to Ustyug.
The city was injured and during the gravestone of the XV century between Vasily Dark and Sons of Yuri Zvenigorodsky Vasily Skim and Dmitry Shemyaka. In 1436, Vasily Kosy, violating the cross kissing, deceived the city and ordered his warriors to kill local residents. After 14 years, Brother Vasily Kosoy Dmitry Shemyak, fled from Moscow, came to the Dvinsky region. After the negotiations, Ustyuzhan jumped into loyalty, the same who openly expressed their commitment to Vasily Dark, was sinking in Sukhon with the "Land on her neck."
Veliky Ustyug turned out to be the most important center on the way to Zyryan and Perm lands and further, "for the stone", to Siberia. The famous Russian seeding Semyon Dejyev was from Ustyug.

Monument to Semyon Dezhnev in Veliky Ustyug. The 70s of the twentieth century.

XVII and, in part, the XVIII century became the heyday of the Great Ustyug. Rich merchants and industrialists built stone churches and residential choirs. These facilities still define the appearance of the city. In the XIX century, Ustyug was aside from trade routes and turned into a regular county city Russian Empire. Its current "impasse" position, remoteness from the capitals and, even, from its own regional center led to some "isolation" and self-sufficiency. Ustyuzhan, as inserted, chopped the forest, create a wonderful beauty of Northern Mobile, boils (by the way, excellent, including from B Klinsky) and drive wonderful tinctures :, for clinical, sea buckthorn, crucible, etc.

Shans with Ustyuzhi tinctures.

The Deadmorosovskaya conjuncture imposes its mark on the city. If earlier in Veliky Ustyug there was only one hotel "Sukhona",

now they are not less than a dozen - for every taste and wallet. Moreover, if the "mother of Santa Claus" requires nonsense 100 euros 6400 rubles. Overnight, then in the city center in the cozy, you can stay at three more than cheaper times.

In the foreground -, behind it is a green box "Sukhona".

In Veliky Ustyug, I did not leave me a feeling of a losingity not only in space, but in time. If you do not pay attention to the details, there is a persistent feeling of return to the past. What do not you mean from the era of "Developed Socialism"?

And this church circle on the fence is clearly from the XIX century. Slap, rusted, but survived!

The feeling of "failure in time" is aggravated by little and silence, unusual for a resident of a large city. For the May weekend (!) Nobody is collectively Ahal, looking at Ustyuzhskaya old. I imagine that at that time was happening in Suzdal!
And see here there is something. An ensemble of the former Savior Transfiguration Monastery is visible across the road from the hotel. It consists of the Savior Transfiguration Cathedral of the late XVII century and a slender Sretencian-Transfiguration Church of 1725-39.

Temples of the Transfiguration Monastery. On the left of the cathedral, on the right of the Sretencian-Preobrazhensky Church.

The cathedral is massive, impressive, surrounded by the Gulbishch and as if relied on the mighty chipper attached from the south-west of the tutar bell tower.

Sretenskaya church in contrast is easy, elegant. She easily swears into the sky, reminding.

Monastery temples overlook the main transport artery of the Great Ustyug - Red Street. Although I have more to her historical name Preobrazhenskaya. Along the Red Street there are numerous merchant mansions, shops and modest wooden houses.

House of Kuznetsova began the beginning of the twentieth century. This is not ashamed and in the provincial city stand. Wooden mansion of 1815 on a stone pink. Development of Preobrazhenskaya (Red) Street.

If you go on the Preobrazhenskaya to the east, you will inevitably begin to the Smolnikovskoe lake, which arose, as if they were told, in the "resulting natural disaster."

Solnikovskoe lake. On the opposite bank, the villages of Sloboda are visible.

On the shore installed a stand (thanks to Ustyuzhanam) the narrative of the most natural catastrophe with the words of an old diploma.

The lamb itself has the oldest and most beautiful landing church of the Great Ustyug, built on the means of the richest local merchant Nikiphor Fedorova Son of Revyakina. The church elevated in 1648-49 and was consecrated in the name of the Ascension of the Lord.

The temple, wounded in the spirit of the "Wonderful Russian Pattern", reminded me of the Moscow Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in Putkach. Revyakin, who happened in Moscow on shopping affairs, was probably a sign with the metropolitan temples and, perhaps, invited to build the Master of the Master of the Ascension Church of the Wizard. An amazing combination of volumes, adhesions, stairs, papelves and bell tower creates a bright festive image of the temple.
In the church is the Museum of Icon Pouring. Inside the iconostasis is preserved.

Here you can see the numerous icons of the localities of Saints: Prokopiya Ustyuzhsky with a life.

Prokopiya Ustyugovsky and John the righteous in the illness icon of the Annunciation. The most famous icon is stored in the Tretyakov Gallery.

Unfortunately, in the church, the batteries in the cameras were synchronously sat down in the cameras and could not be photographed much. The splitting fragment with the passions of the Lord in the stamps turned out to be the last shot by us.

For the Alexandrovsky lake lies the lower Posad, which there were several churches. The most interesting of them is consecrated in the name of the wives of Mironositz (1723). It also contains a museum dedicated to the Christmas and New Year's Christmas Toy. We would be interested to see it, but on May 10, the museum was closed.

Once the shore of Sukhona near the lower pose was a very lively place. In the 70s of the last century, a river station was built here. But now shipping in dryness almost ceased, the building is abandoned and only the sculpture of Aquarius reminds of the past.

Probrusive poems on the pedestal remind that the city is named the mouth of the South River (mouth of the south - Ust-South), which, merging here with Sukhona, forms the Northern Dvina. The official coat of arms of the Great Ustyug, the highest confined sovereign Catherine II, looks much more elegant.

The statue of the Aquarius offers a wonderful view of the city center. Heaps of sand in the foreground are vital - work is underway to strengthen the embankment, often suffering from the spring ice drift.

The picturesque ensemble of the Cathedral Card is visible away. We will go to him.

We return to the dam to the Ascension Church and we go on the pedestrian Soviet avenue, the former Assumption street. However, she became only in 1804, and before it was even more interesting - Zdoyalnya. Wow to the address of the local administration - ul. Zdoyalnya 103? 🙂

Fortunately, nothing specifically Soviet, with the exception of the lonely five-story building and red flags (they can be written off on the day of victory) here was not observed. It is completely built up with old merchant mansions and labazami.

On the edge of the meadow, the former trading area, is lonely Nikola Gostunsky - a patron of floating, traveling and trading. The low winter temple of the 80s of the XVII century, after about 40 years, was allowed to be a slender summer church, just as they were erected.

Next to the church of the candle rises into the sky an eight-marched bell tower. She was erected simultaneously with the superstructure of the summer temple in the 20s of the XVIII century. An elegant spire with a cross and an angel waved over the shore of Sukhona in 1776.

Past merchant mansions belonging to housing, subbotic, Kostrov

The estate of Kosta, the current city administration.

we go in the direction of the Cathedral courtyard. Next to him is waiting for "Deadmorozing". A pretty two-storey mansion about a hundred years ago is busy office (!) Santa Claus. Lord, but what about our preparing patriotosis? What is the establishment of our grandfather by the Himer's bad word to call?! 🙂 It is clear that the Russian "office" is also not particularly Russian, but a Dutch, but as much as familiar.

Climbing is the vigorous new-fashioned mail of Santa Claus. Well, at least that not "mail" or "post-office", and even to such a thing could think.

Next to the post of Santa Claus, the beautiful mansion of the merchant dice is visible (right), busy by the local tax service.

Well, her, this administrative-official "fairy tale"! Let's look better on the wonderful beauty of the cathedral bell tower, erected at the very end of the XVII century, later supraated and rebuilt, with a special belfry for a thousandded bell, called Varlaam.

It can be seen that the cathedral bellow served as a sample for the bell tower of Nikola Gostunsky, and for Simeon a hatch, which we still get. We were not kept and immediately climbed up. The rise was surprisingly easy.

Here they are, bells, at a distance of an elongated hand!

Cathedral chapters and crosses shining with Chervon Gold, only a little further.

The church shoes are visible for church monasters.

North-West produced CPKIO. Buldakova. Do not be afraid - Buldakov is not a communist at all, but a local ... A merchant, who donated his manor park in the city. Here I would be a corn abbreviation somewhere to remove.

To the east over the roofs of houses and branches of trees, another majestic temple rises. This is Mikhailo Arkhangelsky Cathedral of the monastery of the monastery. We will definitely get it, but only in the evening.

But the ensemble of the Transfiguration Monastery has already familiar to us.

It's time, finally, descend from heaven to the ground, where there is a magnificent ensemble of the Cathedral Court of the Great Ustyug.

The Assumption Cathedral, the same name of Moscow, is first mentioned as much as in 1290. He founded his Rostov archbishop Tikhon. The wooden temple was often rooted and rebuilt on the same place. The first stone cathedral was erected here with Ivan Grozny in the middle of the XVI century. However, the fire did not spare him. At the site of "disguised fires" of the walls of the old cathedral, the townspeople begin to build a new one, the sixth of the Assumption Temple. Funds, as always, lacked, and only help allowed to complete the temple in 1663. Another 70 years later the Cathedral was rebuilt in accordance with the new Baroque era tastes.

Assumption Cathedral on the right, the belfry on the left. In the foreground - the statue of Semen Dezhnev.

On the embankment of Sukhona, separating the cathedral from the river, several more temples come out. The modest Epiphany Church, otherwise, called the Vlassee of Sevastia, is best viewed by the altar. With the embankment it closes a rather dull extension occupied by the exhibition hall. And on the east side and you altar apse, and Kokoshniki, and platbands and, even, eaves with a wet. 🙂

The low massive Cathedral of John the righteous was raised over the coffin of the local Saint John, whose icon we have already seen in the Ascension Church, in 1656-63. Ktitor, i.e. The donor for the temple was all the same Nikiphor Revyakin, a merchant living room hundreds. The temple looks not very beautiful because of the later rebuildings, a massive fiction church of a century ago, attached from the river, well, due to the cultural layer, of course.

Nearby is another cathedral, consecrated in the name of Holy Prokopiya Ustyugovsky. It was erected several years after the Assumption and John Cathedrals. Ustyugi guests Brothers Guselnikov, not wanting to lag behind the revolt, donated funds for the construction of the temple, completed in 1668. Cathedral Prokopiya Ustyuzhsky acting. It has a magnificent iconostasis, but it is prohibited inside.

Cathedral Prokopiya Ustyuzhsky with late extensions: the refectory and the porch of the beginning of the twentieth century. View from the waterfront. Cathedral Prokodiya Ustyugovsky with late extensions: the first time on the left and sake of the right. View from the cathedral courtyard.

Along the embankment there are several vintage estates of the late XVIII century. The pink palace belonged to the merchant Usov, and the neighboring white - Zakharov.

At sunset, we got to the manor Mikhail Matveyevich Buldakov. An impressive three-storey house looks at the river.

The gate through the metropolitan fashion is decorated with licensed gilded lions. Lywings are not terrible here, rather cute and smiling.

The embankment offers a wonderful view of the Zarechnaya village Dymkovo with Churches Dimitri Solunsky and Sergius Radonezh.

Somewhere in the merge of Sukhona with the south there is a Trinity-Gledin Monastery, noting the initial location of the Great Ustyug. At an endless legend, the city was founded by Vsevolod, a large nest on a hill at the merge of Sukhona and South. The high hill on which the fortress was standing was not too good. Waters of both rivers were constantly waved his slopes and gradually the inhabitants moved to the opposite coast of Sukhona in the tract "Black Priluk". Over time, the new settlement got the same name - Ustyug, and the Geda fortress stood still long and was destroyed during the gravesti of the XV century.

View from Gleden Hill. Left - Sukhona, right - south, right - Northern Dvina.

To get to the Trinity Gedyan Monastery, you need to go from the city in the direction of Nikolsk and roughly after 8 km roll to the left of the Morozovits. A good asphalt road leads to the village, which ends on the high shore of the south next to the curious, decorated with a carving of wood.

Especially good carved balcony in front of the attic window.

and some animals (dogs? Wolves? Kurtitsa?) On the roof rods.

Do not be afraid of the unwriting type of gate. Tree wicket on the left is not locked. The monastery is far from being better. More than half of the walls and the cells are lost. Right on the territory of the monastery is someone sovereign. His owner warned me, turning attention to a huge shaggy dog \u200b\u200ba very unfriendly species, covered with the surrounding landscape. The photo of the cathedral had to do with not the most successful angle.

The Trinity Cathedral is built on the means of the richest local merchants of breasts. Although the first donation in the amount of 1,500 rubles was made on the will of other prominent townspeople - barefoot - in 1658. Construction began in 1659 by order of the force of Grudtsina and continued on the means of his brother Ivan. After the death of the work brothers stopped. An old man of the monastery of Philaret, the father-in-law of Vasily Grudtsina, he won it to complete the temple and left money for it. However, Vasily assigned money, and did not build a cathedral. Only after the complaint of the monastery of the monastery of Patriarch Iowu, Vasily resumed construction. The cathedral was completed at the very end of the XVII century. The main treasure of the monastery is in the cathedral. This is a terrific carved iconostasis created by Timothy Timothy and Nikolai Bogdanov. They worked on its creation of 8 years, from 1776 to 1784. Icons wrote local masters, former "part-time" merchants - Alexey Kolmogorov, Egor Chergin and the priest Vasily Afanasyev.

The iconostasis looks like a very secular, "palace", perhaps because his icons are non-canonic, they were performed in the image of Western European engravings.

Uncharacteristic for Russian churches and an abundance of very expressive wooden sculpture. Especially good royal gates with statues of four evangelists: John, Matthew, Mark and Luke.

The iconostasis is made with the "breakdown", the more traditional icons of the Virgin, Nikola, the Wonderworker, are installed in its wired parts ...

and the Trinity of the Old Testament with Acts.

Compare it from the Temple Trinity Icon, which is located in the local rank of the iconostasis to the right of the royal gates.

Iconostasis is richly mesmen with skilled gilded thread. Loved the motives of the iconostasis were straight and rockey curls.

And "trusted grape vine", symbolizing Jesus Christ.

Grape vine wures spiral wooden columns, similar to what can be seen in Prague and Viennese Catholic temples. True, the collecting columns are still made of marble.

It's amazing that this beautiful iconostasis has been preserved to this day. In the twentieth century, atheists closed the monastery, the team was arranged here for the detachable, children's colony and only about 30 years ago, the preserved buildings passed the museum. According to the chamber of the iconostasis I had to wash away from several tons ... pigeon litter. Birds flew into the cathedral through the knocked out windows and very cozy felt inside.

With regret, we leave the cathedral, not forgetting to buy a book with magnificent reproductions of icons. Next to the cathedral is a dilapidated meadow chamber with the Tikhvin Church.

That would be where to send the zeal of our clergy, but no. The world famous monuments, for the entrance to which they take money, they are much more interesting.
The monastery opens a wonderful panorama of the Great Ustyug. In the foreground - spill dryness and south.

Being in Veliky Ustyug, it is necessary to call in the village of Dymkovo, standing on the southern shores of Sukhona. Dymkovo is noteworthy not only and not so much by its temples, although they are also good.

Churches of the village of Dymkovo. On the left temple of Dimitri Solunsky (1700-1709), on the right of the Church of Sergius Radonezh (1739-1747).

In Dymkovo, they are mainly driving for the sake of magnificent species of Veliky Ustyug. First of all, "throws out" at the Cathedral courtyard.

Then the look catches the familiar silhouette of Nikola Gostunsky. It's a shame only that the Ryakomovsky five-story laying is climbing in the frame, almost the only one in the city center.

Here is the Manor Buldakov with neighboring churches: Leontyevskaya left and Ilyinskaya right.

This is a fortune next to the Lake Alexander Lake. The bell tower behind the trees belongs to the Church of Varlaam Khutynsky, the dilapidated church in the center is called Sretenco-Mironositskaya, and the golden masters crowned the familiar church of the wives of Mironositz, where the Museum of Christmas Toys is located.

What is it? Why dont know?

This church of Simeon has a hatch - an excellent baroque sample, and not one, but with a separate bell tower. Later we specially drove into the lower Posad to look at it closer. See what kind of beauty that your palace!

The bell tower is also good, although it got out a bit.

A farewell view from Dymkovo to Veliky Ustyug. Well, how good is the city! And Sukhona, what kind of beauty! Maybe for the better, what lies the great Ustyug for the stall of the wool from Moscow, but from St. Petersburg?

It seems that everyone looked, except for Santa Claus, of course, who did not enter our plans. How is everything, and Mikhailo Arkhangelsky Monastery?

It is five minutes walk from the hotel "Dvina" on the shore of a non-day stream. He founded his monk Cyprian as long as 1212 "For risers for the disadvantage,", i.e. Outside urban fortifications. In the fire of 1651, the monastery burned down the duck and then all the same Nikifor Revyakin allocated funds for the construction of the Stone Arkhangelsky Cathedral. His Yaroslavl masters erected.

The refectory chamber with the Church of Introduction to the Temple of the Blessed Virgin Mary was also built on the means of revolk. It looks pretty sad, because in it there are still classes of Ustyug Road technical school.

Fortunately, a magnificent porch with creeping arches and a monumental indoor trimmer transition has been preserved. He reminds us that in the north with snow and frost jokes are bad.

The elegant garment church is consecrated in the name of the Vladimir icon of the Virgin. She is on the site of the former holy gates of the monastery.

The small church of Pentecost and Pentecost Fewings was hidden behind the garment temple. She stands above the grave of the founder of the Cyprian monastery.

Now everything is really! It is a pity that many churches were closed for holidays. We could not see the interiors of the Assumption Cathedral, nor the iconostasis of Mikhailo-Arkhangelsky. Return to Veliky Ustyug in the near future can hardly succeed. But the North city on Sukhon is so beautiful that we were more than enough that we saw. After all, you can come here for one of this sunset!

Articles of the Totemsko-Ustyuga cycle.