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      Balakhna: a 1552 tent-roofed church and Minin's homeland

      ⏱ 8 h🚶 1.5 km + 🚆🍽 1📍 6 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      Half a day in an old salt town an hour away by suburban train: the tent-roofed St Nicholas Church from the time of Ivan the Terrible, the merchant Plotnikov's house with lace, the Kuzma Minin museum and khachapuri on Sovetskaya Square.

      🏛 History and architecture🚆 Out of town
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      Getting there
      🏛 Moskovsky Station
      пл. Революции, 2А
      Suburban train to Balakhna at 8:42 every day, about 1 h on the way.
      🚆 by suburban train to St Nicholas Church of the Intercession Monastery
      suburban train at 8:42 from Moskovsky Station to Balakhna station, about 1 h; from there about 10 min by taxi or city bus to Sovetskaya Square
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        🏛 St Nicholas Church of the Intercession Monastery
        пер. Тюленина, 5, Балахна
        A tent-roofed church of 1552 — the same age as the capture of Kazan and one of the oldest stone churches in the Nizhny Novgorod region.
        A tent-roofed church of 1552 — the main reason to make the trip.
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        • The stone tent-roofed church was built in 1552 by order of Ivan the Terrible in honor of the capture of Kazan.
        • It was part of the Intercession Monastery, founded in the first half of the 16th century by the hieromonk Pafnuty.
        • The monastery was abolished in 1783 — it had grown poor after the decline of the salt trade.
        • The church was returned to believers in 2008, and in 2011 the relics of the monastery's founder, Pafnuty, were found here.
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        🏛 Intercession Church
        просп. Революции, 17, Балахна
        A stone church of 1648 next to St Nicholas — together they are what remains of the Intercession Monastery.
        The neighboring Intercession Church of 1648 — together with St Nicholas, it's all that is left of the monastery.
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        • The stone Intercession Church was built in 1648 in place of a wooden one.
        • In 1903 John of Kronstadt celebrated the liturgy here.
        • The church was closed in 1937, and from 1950 it housed a local history museum.
      4. 🚶 on foot
      5. 3
        🖼 Plotnikov House — Balakhna Museum Complex
        ул. Карла Маркса, 4, Балахна
        🎟 ticket
        The house of the merchant shipbuilder Plotnikov with authentic interiors of the second half of the 19th century and workshops on Balakhna lace.
        A merchant house with authentic interiors; ask about a bobbin-lace workshop.
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        • The house was built by the wealthy merchant shipbuilder Plotnikov in the second half of the 19th century, and the authentic interiors are well preserved.
        • The building was handed to the museum in 2012, and visitors were let in in 2014.
        • For several centuries Balakhna was a center of bobbin lace-making, and its lace was exported.
        • The technique of Balakhna lace was considered the most labor-intensive in Russia.
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        🖼 Clay Museum
        ул. Карла Маркса, 6, Балахна
        🎟 ticket
        A small museum next to Plotnikov House — about Balakhna's pottery, brick and tile making.
        The neighboring house is about Balakhna's potters, bricks and tiles.
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        🖼 Kuzma Minin Museum
        площадь Кузьмы Минина, 1, Балахна
        🎟 ticket
        A museum about Kuzma Minin and the Time of Troubles, in the town considered the birthplace of the militia's hero.
        A museum about Minin and the Time of Troubles on the square named after him.
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        • Balakhna is the supposed birthplace of Kuzma Minin, organizer of the 1611–1612 militia.
        • The name Balakhna first appears in documents of 1536 — that year is considered the year of its founding.
        • In the Middle Ages the town was a major center of the salt trade.
      10. 🚶 on foot
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        🍽 Aunt Mariko's Khachapuri in Balakhna
        Советская площадь, 16, Балахна
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        Lunch on Sovetskaya Square: Adjarian khachapuri and kharcho (Georgian beef soup). Opens at 12:00.
        🍴 A Georgian restaurant of the chain on Sovetskaya Square. What to order: Adjarian khachapuri and kharcho (Georgian beef soup).

      ↩️ Getting back: Trains from Balakhna station to Moskovsky Station at 15:17, 16:17, 17:27, 18:50 and 20:02, about 50–60 min on the way; to the station about 10 min by taxi. Check the times in Yandex Schedules

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