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      Sviyazhsk: the island-town by commuter train

      ⏱ 10 h🚶 3 km + 🚆🍽 1📍 5 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      Ivan the Terrible's fortress on an island: a 16th-century monastery with UNESCO-listed frescoes, a wooden church from 1551 and views of the Volga. River boats stop running by late October, so we go by train and bus.

      🏛 History and architecture🚆 Out of town
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      Getting there
      🏛 Kazan-Passazhirskaya Station
      Привокзальная пл., 1А
      Trains leave from the suburban pavilion next to the main building
      🚆 by suburban train to Island-Town of Sviyazhsk
      train at 07:37 to Sviyazhsk station (arrives 08:42), then bus 407 at 08:55 to the island; on Sat and Sun, marshrutka 532 at 08:40 from Yuzhny bus station
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        🏛 Island-Town of Sviyazhsk
        село Свияжск, Зеленодольский район
        🎟 partly ticketed · free to walk around the island, museums are ticketed
        Ivan the Terrible's fortress on an island where the Sviyaga meets the Volga: monasteries, a wooden church from 1551 and quiet.
        The island is free to walk around, museums are ticketed
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        Island-Town of Sviyazhsk
        © A.Savin · FAL
        Island-Town of Sviyazhsk
        © Евгений Катышев · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The fortress was founded on 24 May 1551 as a base for Ivan the Terrible's campaign against Kazan.
        • It was assembled in four weeks from logs prepared near Uglich and floated down the Volga.
        • Sviyazhsk became an island in 1957, when the Kuibyshev Reservoir was filled.
        • Since 2008 a causeway with a road has led to the island.
        • Sviyazhsk station is 8.5 km west of the island, in the village of Nizhnie Vyazovye.
        • In 2017 the island had 243 residents.
      2. 🚶 on foot
      3. 2
        🏛 Sviyazhsk Dormition Monastery
        Успенская ул., 6, Свияжск
        🚪 entrance from Uspenskaya Street
        A 16th-century monastery with the Dormition Cathedral, whose frescoes are the main reason the island made the UNESCO list.
        The cathedral frescoes from around 1605 are the reason the island is on the UNESCO list
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        Sviyazhsk Dormition Monastery
        © Шелковников Евгений Анатольевич · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Sviyazhsk Dormition Monastery
        © A.Savin · FAL
        • The monastery was founded in 1555 by Archimandrite Herman, later Archbishop of Kazan; his relics are the abbey's main shrine.
        • The monastery ensemble was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List on 9 July 2017.
        • The Dormition Cathedral frescoes were painted around 1605 and cover 1,080 m², a rare complete cycle from the age of Boris Godunov.
        • The 1556 Nikolskaya refectory church stands with a 43-metre bell tower.
        • In the 16th–18th centuries the monastery was the richest in the Middle Volga and among the twenty richest in Russia.
      4. 🚶 on foot
      5. 3
        🏛 Trinity Church
        Троицкая ул., 20, Свияжск
        A wooden church from 1551, as old as the fortress and the oldest church in the Middle and Lower Volga region.
        A wooden church from 1551, as old as the fortress
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        Trinity Church
        © Valodor · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Trinity Church
        © Insider · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The wooden Trinity Church was assembled in 1551 together with the town.
        • It is the oldest church in the whole Middle and Lower Volga region.
        • The church is the only building left from the original Sviyazhsk.
        • Next to it is the stone Church of St Sergius of Radonezh from 1604.
      6. 🚶 on foot
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        ☕️ Monastery refectory in Sviyazhsk
        Троицкая ул., 12, Свияжск
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        Lunch in the monastery canteen: soup and pastries, with fasting dishes available
        🍴 A canteen on the grounds of the St John the Baptist Monastery with views from the windows. What to order: soup, pastries and kompot (stewed-fruit drink); there are fasting dishes.
      8. 🚶 on foot
      9. 5
        🏛 Church of Sts Constantine and Helena
        Константиновская ул., 4, Свияжск
        A white church of the 16th–18th centuries at the edge of the island, with views of the Volga and the Sviyaga.
        A church at the edge of the island with views of the Volga and the Sviyaga
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        Church of Sts Constantine and Helena
        © Alexxx1979 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Church of Sts Constantine and Helena
        © A.Savin · FAL

      ↩️ Getting back: bus 407 from Sviyazhsk at 16:15 to the station, then the 16:46 train, arriving in Kazan at 17:59 (or the 17:00 bus and the 19:13 train); on Saturdays and Sundays, marshrutka 532 at 14:30 to Yuzhny bus station

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