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How to get there and where to stay

Yelets is located near the federal highway M4 , it passes in the immediate vicinity of the city, as well as the regional motorway P119 Orel - Tambov. Public transport from Moscow to Yelets can be reached by bus from the Paveletsky station or by trains heading south.

You can stop in Yelets in the hotel of the same name, which has quite a number of rooms of different levels. Prices for accommodation - from 1 to 5 thousand rubles. In the center of the city there is also a mini-hotel "Parnas", accommodation will cost 2, 5-2, 7 thousand rubles.

Sightseeing

In Yelets there are a lot of samples of architecture 18-19 centuries: temples, merchant houses, buildings of public and commercial institutions. Even without regard to religion, the number, diversity and beauty of the Yelets churches can not but delight, almost every one of them - and there are about a dozen of them in the city - deserves attention. The most interesting from the point of view of history and architecture are the four religious buildings:

• the oldest stone building in the city - the Vvedenskaya church built in the middle of the 18th century

• the most famous sight - the temple of Elets Icon of the Mother of God, which, according to legend, Tamerlane's troops from the invasion of Moscow;

• the most original is the Grand Duke Church, which is built with the money of the merchant Zausailov in honor of visiting Yelets with his brother Nicholas II, Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich. Near the temple is the house of charity, which was also opened by a well-known Yelets merchant,

• the most famous building - the Ascension Cathedral, erected by the architect Konstantin Ton. The cathedral is called the third (according to other sources - the fourth) largest Orthodox church in Russia after the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, St. Isaac's Cathedral (and the Annunciation Cathedral in Voronezh). Near the Voznesensky Cathedral there is a small chapel consecrated at the grave of the people of Elchan who died in Tamerlane in 1395.

Other attractions of Yelets are connected with the life and work of IA Bunin, who spent several years of his life here as a pupil of the local gymnasium, composer TN Khrennikov, artist N. N. Zhukov. Another thing worth visiting is the museum of folk crafts and crafts, and also go down to the place where the Yelets fortress stood, and just wander through the old, narrow and quiet Yelets streets.

Yelets lace

Yelets lace - this is perhaps the most famous and oldest "product" from Yelets, known to connoisseurs even abroad. Unlike the Vologda analogue, Yelets laces are lighter, they have small patterns and a delicate openwork background, and weave them on bobbins (wooden sticks). Both before and after the 1917 revolution This fishery continued to exist, surviving the crisis only in the 1990s. Now the factory continues to be a visiting card of the city at various exhibitions and other representative events, and lace itself is an elite souvenir from Yelets, which, however, can already be purchased in branded stores in other cities.

Events

In Yelets, in recent years, a tradition has developed to hold various festivals of historical and ethnographic focus. In May, there is the "Russian leaven", a festival dedicated to the national way of life and traditions, including the procurement of products for the winter, home brewing, baking. At the autumn festival "Antonovskie apples" the same thing, except that it is dedicated to Ivan Bunin and his work, which became the symbol of the event.

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