Vologda region, the city of Vytegra: sights, description, photo

In the Vologda region (in the north-west) is a small Russian town of Vytegra, whose attractions come to see tourists from all over the country.

It is the administrative center of the Vytegorsky municipal district, bordering the Arkhangelsk, Leningrad regions, as well as the Republic of Karelia. The city is located on the banks of the same river, very close to Onega Lake. Only 12.5 thousand people live permanently here. The town is very small, cozy, drowning in greenery. Its center is built up by one- and two-story houses.

Today Vytegra (Vologda region) has earned the title of the port of five seas, as the Volga-Baltic waterway runs here - the main waterway of the Northwest of the Russian Federation. It united the waters of the White, Baltic, Azov, Caspian and Black Seas into a unified system.

Vytegra: sightseeing

Palozero is a freshwater lake with crystal clear water, which locals do not fear to drink without boiling. Residents of the village of the same name, located on its shore, use not only its water. Here is a wonderful fishing - in the lake there is a pike perch, perch, pike. Almost all the catch goes to the markets of the Vologda region.

In addition to fishing, villagers grow fruits and vegetables. Fortunately moist air and abundant moisture from the lake to this only contribute. The lake has a slightly elongated shape. Its area is only about one square kilometer. But, despite such a modest size, the reservoir is quite deep. In the middle of the lake the depth reaches five meters.

Resurrection Cathedral

Vytegra (Vologda region) has several religious buildings. One of them - the Resurrection Cathedral, built in 1800 in the Baroque style. The temple is located in the heart of the city, on Lenin Avenue. After the construction was a five-domed cathedral with a bell tower towering over the cathedral, which was crowned with a spire, and a refectory.

In the Soviet era, the temple was dismantled (partially) and organized in its premises the House of Culture of water workers. In 2009, the cathedral was repaired, but he did not acquire the former magnificence.

Museum of Military Glory

The Museum "Submarine B-440" was organized on the basis of a real combat submarine (project 641), which was built at the shipbuilding plant in Leningrad in 1969. The permanent exposition is close to the situation in which the submarine sailors work and live during long maritime campaigns.

The museum employs experienced guides who will lead guests across all compartments, tell about the history of the submarine, its purpose. In the first museum compartment of the boat there are torpedo tubes, numerous instruments for controlling the nose rudders, as well as torpedo shooting. The dimensions of the torpedo are impressive - eight meters long, weight - two tons. There are also sleeping places (three tiers) for the personnel.

The second compartment is residential. Here are the wardroom, the officers' cabins, the hydroacoustics cutting room. Under the floor of the second compartment is located a nasal storage battery.

The third compartment is the heart of the boat in which the central post was located. Here are located cuttings navigator, administrative post torpedo shooting, nasal latrine.

The fourth compartment is also residential, in addition, it houses a galley, a midshipmen's mess-room, a communications deckhouse and a mechanic's cabin.

In the fifth compartment there are three diesel engines, and the sixth compartment was electromotive, it housed three main electric motors.

In the seventh compartment there were four torpedo tubes, a tube, a spare gyrocompass. In the same compartment, the sailors watched the films and rested after the watch. In 2005, the boat made its last trip and forever moored at the Vytegorskie shores. Since December 2005 it is the base of the Museum of Military Glory.

Sretensky temple

And this is one of the main historical monuments that Vytegra can boast of. The sights of this village can not compete on a scale with the cult buildings of the major cities of our country, but this church is very dear to local people.

It was built in 1873. The first Sretenskaya church of stone was erected on this site in 1801. The laying of the granite foundation under the temple was led by the vicar of the St. Petersburg diocese, Bishop of Ladozhsky. Construction work for four years was conducted by a team of bricklayers under the direction of peasant IV Volkov from the village of Sloboda Pesochnaya, located in the Kostroma province.

The opening of the church and the consecration of the side aisle in the name of St. Paul was timed to the centenary of the founding of the city of Vytegra. Sights, unfortunately, have survived to this day, few, but the Sretensky temple is in excellent condition. On either side of the main altar are two side chapels - St. Paul and the Assumption of Our Lady.

Chapel

The wooden chapel of Isaak Daltmatsky is made in the form of a Monomakh hat (1881). It is still valid today. The chapel was moved to the current place (to the Sretenskaya church) from the area flooded during the construction of the Vytegorsk reservoir. The chapel, built in the style of Russian Northern Art Nouveau, harmoniously complements the ancient Sretensky temple. Nowadays all the newly married cities come here.

Local History Museum

The city museum of local lore, founded in November 1913, today united several expositions that are located in different parts of the city. Earlier the main exposition was in the Sretenskaya church, but after the transfer of its ROC the museum moved to a new address.

Karst lakes

The Vologda region is famous for its magnificent nature. Vytegra is no exception. Attractions (natural) are of great interest to the guests of the city. First of all, they include karst lakes. They are recognized as disappearing, they are in the Shimozersky zakaznik. Such reservoirs are typical for areas that are composed of soluble rocks. Periodically they disappear (completely or partially).

This amazing phenomenon scientists explain the formation of underground canals, cavities, funnels, through which from time to time the water goes away, and together with the fish. Then the cracks are again clogged with clay, and the lake is filled with water.