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Kimry is a town in the south of Tver Oblast, Russia.  It’s located at the junction of the Volga and Kimrka Rivers, 133 kilometers east of Tver.  It’s railway station, Savyolovo, is on the Moscow – Kalyazin line.  Kimry also has a river port on the right bank of the Volga.  In every street in the center of the town, there are unique, incomparable, small houses and mansions.  Many of them are in very bad condition now, and some are completely abandoned.  It is interesting that Kimry got the status of a town only after 1917, so all these architectural monuments can be considered as stunning "rural" housing.  Unfortunately, during the Soviet period the town’s architectural integrity was badly damaged.  In 1936, authorities demolished the cathedral complex on the central Troitsky Square, where Pokrovskaya Church (built 1816-1825) and Troitskaya Church (built in 1829) stood on the bank of the river junction. . The remaining Ascension Church (1814),...

        Once arriving in the town of Kimry, I decided to take a little walk to the abandoned graveyard called Vishnevo.   It’s located in a forested area not far from the village of Ilyinskoe, which is fifteen kilometers from Kimry.    The dirt road from Ilyinskoe to Vishnevo is in very bad shape.   You can see that it hadn’t been maintained at all.   In addition to large ruts and washed out sections, there were even some fallen trees across the road, so I had to leave my car and walk for a good length of the way.   The scenery along the way was quite scenic and interesting, with forests and swamps.    There were channels covered in water lilies throughout the area. You can see that some of the swampy areas had been drained to extract the peat.    A lovely, peaceful scene.   Finally I arrived at the destination of my long walk--the Church of the Nativity and churchyard of Vishnevo. It ...