Chistopol - the city of the best watchmakers . But not only for hours, flying into space, this city is known in Tatarstan . Once it was a village . The first mention of it in the Russian annals appeared in the late 17th - early 18 century . But historians believe that this is a newly formed settlement . According to the most popular version, the first settlers were fugitive serfs . In the beginning of the 18th century they were evicted and the village was burnt, only a clean field remained . Survivors and who avoided links again began to build their homes and called their homeland in memory of еликом пожарище . The history of Chistopol as a city begins in 1781 when, by decree of Catherine II, the village was given the status of a county town, with its own coat of arms . During the Great Patriotic War this Tatar town became a haven for poets and writers: Boris lived here Pasternak, Leonid Leonov, Anna Akhmatova, Arseny Tarkovsky, Marina Tsvetaeva .
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How to get to Chistopol
Directly to Chistopol from Moscow not to get . We need either to fly or go by train to Kazan, and it's better to Nizhnekamsk . So it's more convenient . And already from Nizhnekamsk by bus (sent every day at noon, time in Tatarstan is Moscow) or a taxi to go to Chistopol . The distance between the cities is 110 km, the taxi will cost at least 1500 rubles . During the navigation period, from May to October, in Chistopol stop cruise ships, including those coming from Moscow . But in this case Chistopol will be just one of the points in your journey . If you are aiming specifically at this city, choose the routes listed above, or go to the autotravel . By car to the Pure Field - 950 km . And you will enter the city by the largest automobile bridge in Russia, 14 km long, and you will be able to appreciate the beauty and grandeur of the Kama River .
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Entertainment, excursions and attractions of Chistopol
In Chistopol, well-groomed narrow streets lined with paving stones, with ornate lanterns and delicate balconies of former merchant houses. This is not a city, but an open-air museum! By the way, in 1990 the city of Chistopol was included in the list of historical inhabited places of the Russian Federation. The temples are adjacent to mosques. The parks are clean and peaceful. You will like to just stroll through this typical Russian provincial town!
Museum of the county town
If you are traveling around the city by bus, then leave at the stop "Teacher's House" . Here you will find the museum of the county town (ul . Karla Marksa, 8, opening hours: 9: 00-17: 00) . He is already more than 90 years old, was founded by his amateur-orientalist Alexander Bulich in 1921 . The director had his own collection of antiquities, some were preserved and today, for example, the Bulgarian chain mail, which for almost 800 years . you will be told that it was possible to hang it on the wall only three strong workers of the male sex . The museum archive contains letters, pages from diaries, photographs, documents of famous writers who were in Chistopol during evacuation during the war . The museum employees consider two wooden bicycles as the pearl of their collection . They were made by peasant Nikolai Melnikov : one in 1902, the second - seven years later . The exposition is in the merchant's mansion - the architectural monument of Tatarstan . Very beautiful building . Remember - the museum does not work on Monday!
Pasternak Museum
It was in Chistopol that Boris Pasternak created the most famous, considered classic, translation of "Romeo and Juliet" . The poet, writer, translator lived here almost 2 years - (now Lenin) . And in 1990, in honor of the centenary of the Nobel Prize winner, the first Pasternak State Museum in Russia was opened in this house . Rise up the creaking staircase of the mansion on the second floor and you will fall into the world of the poet: here and the furniture saved by the widow Pastern and posters of literary evenings, letters, photographs . Spice up the story of the tour guide - for completeness of sensations . Working hours: 9: 00-17: 00 .
Nikolsky Cathedral
The three-table stone Cathedral of St. Nicholas in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was built in 1838. Money for a holy cause was given to the merchants Polyakov, and the architect was Pyotr Pyatnitsky. The cathedral is the main decoration of the center of Chistopol and really can be called a work of art.
Mosque Nur
Mosques in Chistopol - five: Munir, Iman, Anas, Ikhlas and First Cathedral, she is Nur. Her money was built by her merchant Khasan Yakupov in 1859. In the 70s of the last century the building burned down. On the donations of believers, the wooden mosque was quickly restored. Even in the Soviet years, it remained open to the parishioners and was the most authoritative - after the Kazan "Marjani."
Melnikov's House
This is one of the business cards of Chistopol. Now in the house of the petty bourgeois Melnikov on the ground floor an art salon, on the second floor there is a children's library
Djuketau
In Chistopol rayon there is an archaeological monument - Djuketau reserve, in translation from Tatar - a linden mountain. There was such a city in the Golden Horde, it arose in the beginning of the 10th century and lasted until the end of the 14th. The remains of the Bulgarian settlement have been preserved, and tourists from all over Russia and abroad come to the western outskirts of Chistopol.
Hayaz Museum Iskhaki
The historical-memorial and ethnographic complex of Gayaz Iskhaki (Chistopol district, Kutlushkino (Yaushirma) village); work: 8: 00-17: 00 (Saturday 8: 00-13: 00), the day off is Sunday). Gayaz Iskhaki (1878-1954) is an outstanding Tatar prose writer, playwright, publicist. The museum was opened in the writer's homeland in the house where his sister Iskhaki lived.
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