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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),...

   My visit to Kalyazin began at the Savyolovo railway station in Tver oblast. Here, twice a day, a train departs for Uglich and stops at Kalyazin along the way. I longed to take this train journey for quite some time, but unexpected circumstances delayed my plans for about a month. Then one Saturday I set my mind to finally doing it.   With my little sister in tow, I drove to Savyolovo to catch the train.   And we were off!    Savyolovo is the farthest destination for Moscow Railway’s electric trains that head from Savyolovsky railway terminal. It's also the final point for diesel trains from Sonkovo and Uglich. Only one long-range train on this rail stops at the Savyolovo station.   That’s the train connecting Moscow and Rybinsk in Yaroslavl oblast--it changes locomotives there.  The station gave its name to the railway line that runs through Lobnya, Dmitrov and Taldom. It also gave its name to the Savyolovsky railway terminal in Moscow....