Kalyazin, Russia

In the 180-km from Moscow to Yaroslavl and Dmitrovsky highway located a small town Kalyazin. Like many provincial towns of Russia, the history of this city of his birth is connected with the creation of a fortress-monastery, around which the settlement grew, and in the subsequent time on opposite sides of the river having two settlements united in 1775 between himself and received by the decree of Empress Catherine II city status. Kalyazin - one of the oldest towns in Tver land, grew up on the Volga.

The city is located on the right bank of the Volga (Uglich Reservoir). In the city is Żabno mouth of the river, right tributary of the Volga.

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